The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour

[niyad]

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 Trump’s 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-right’s greatest impact may come from its efforts to shift the political culture.

Although best known for its white nationalist brand of racist ideology, there’s 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 – it’s strikingly different from the version that’s 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 women’s autonomy or privacy. These alt-rightists support legal abortion because, they claim, it’s 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 woman’s choice”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/alt-right-hates-women-non-white-trump-christian-right-abortion

[lunasun]

1. Hey Greg Johnson you are a supreme asshole.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I think it's more accurate to say the entirevGOP!

[malthaussen]

3. More than.

Although I wouldn't want to live on the difference.

-- Mal

[niyad]

4. as somebody pointed out, they do their best not to encounter POC, but there are women

EVERYWHERE!

[Hortensis]

5. Hate's a very overused and misused word. Let's face it,

a lot of ultraconservative men like some women personally, same as relationships many have with individuals of other color. Even if they despise them...?

That said, I don't see a lot of difference between bigotry against blacks and bigotry against women. IS there really any? Or do they just play out differently?

A great of the anxiety that's stimulating bigots into acting out increased hostility toward both women and nonwhites is from the tremendous changes in society and the roles people play in it.

To put it mildly, hard-core cons do not do change and uncertainty well. Pathetic little worms, really.

But in this case I expect they are going to positively hate their inevitable failure to "change" us back to the 19th century. Most may calm down somewhat in another, more balanced era, but they're doomed to perpetual resentment and unhappiness and will die that way. We need to make sure that's their problem.

Itm, let's remember that they're still being fired and having to resign from positions when they reveal their bigotry. Also losing social relationships. That really hasn't changed for all their bigoted, misogynistic, white nationalist noise.