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The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour
Matthew N Lyons
The alt-right was key in getting Trump into power. But its strain of misogyny differs in sometimes surprising ways to that of the traditional Christian right
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Arthur Jones, chairman of the America First Committee, takes photos at a rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Photograph: Pat Jarrett
One hundred days on from Donald Trump entering the White House with its help, what will the alt-right do next? The small, loosely organised movement, which has helped to revitalise far-right politics in the United States, has made skilful use of internet activism and has a receptive ear in Trumps chief strategist Steve Bannon, who as former head of Breitbart News once proclaimed his network the platform of the alt-right. More than shaping White House policy, however, the alt-rights greatest impact may come from its efforts to shift the political culture.
Although best known for its white nationalist brand of racist ideology, theres growing recognition that patriarchal politics is also central to the movement. Several observers have pointed out that the alt-right advocates not just white supremacy, but more specifically white male supremacy, that the movement feeds on toxic resentment of women, and that sexism serves as a gateway drug pulling a lot of young men into it. The few alt-right women who have been profiled embrace their own subordination.
Missing from these accounts is a recognition that the alt-right is reshaping patriarchal politics. Its version of male supremacy is not just more explicit or aggressive its strikingly different from the version thats been dominant among US rightists for decades.
Consider abortion. Some alt-rightists, unsurprisingly, argue that abortion is simply immoral and should be banned. Yet many others in the movement disagree and for reasons that have nothing to do with respecting womens autonomy or privacy. These alt-rightists support legal abortion because, they claim, its disproportionately used by black and Latina women and, secondarily, because they see it as a way to weed out defective white babies. In other words, they support abortion as a form of eugenics. Both sides of this internal alt-right debate agree that women have no business controlling their own bodies. As Greg Johnson of the alt-right website Counter-Currents put it, in a White Nationalist society
some abortions should be forbidden, others should be mandatory, but under no circumstances should they simply be a matter of a womans choice.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/alt-right-hates-women-non-white-trump-christian-right-abortion
ck4829
(35,042 posts)The loudest ones are too cowardly to do anything so they just rile up the ones stupid enough to murder people before getting gunned down themselves.
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)many of those types just merged right into the alt-right.
Deplorables, all.
Full of hate and violence.
Orrex
(63,199 posts)No surprise that these hateful bigots don't limit their hate to people of color. They see white males as the pinnacle of human perfection, so anything that's not white or not male is to be despised.
niyad
(113,232 posts)CousinIT
(9,238 posts)CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)niyad
(113,232 posts)CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Yavin4
(35,432 posts)Most alt-right people never even deal with a person of color.
librechik
(30,674 posts)that's straight from the agenda of Jeff Sessions, who once said the only thing he hates more than marijuana are whitte kids who smoke it (because it's a race thing)