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bisexualvalve · 2 years

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Essay: White Women Storm the Capitol

#1: Ashli Babbitt never imagined she would survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” The 14-year Air Force veteran who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country. So eager of a footsoldier of white supremacist patriarchy was Babbitt that she was the first to scramble through a window in a door separating the insurrectionists from an area where members of Congress were sheltering from the mob. She never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home.

#2: Rosanne Boyland, who carried the yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag as she marched to the Capitol, never imagined she would be trampled to death under the feet of her fellow insurrectionists. She probably believed that after a few hours with a violent white supremacist mob bent on storming the Congress she would just go home because historically white women usually do go home after a mob they have joined has completed its violence, be it lynching Black men, or an insurrection.CaptainThomasSankara @CaptainThomasS2@NotHoodlum @tedcruz Don't forget Elizabeth from Knoxville 👇 January 8th 202151 Retweets273 Likes

#3: Elizabeth from Knoxville, Tennessee was so secure in her right to pursue sedition that she spoke to a reporter on camera with no attempt to hide her face or her intention: “We’re storming the Capitol, it’s a revolution.” She complained of being maced and pushed out of the building. White women never expect to be maced or pushed out of anywhere.

#4: Unidentified white (every)woman was so sure the police would always protect her, along with other property of white men, that she Freudian-slip complained to the mob of insurrectionists on Wednesday: “This is not America...They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

I shed no tears for any of these women, dead or alive.

A movement labeled a domestic terror threat is driven by white suburban women. According to a timeline of violence linked to QAnon between 2018-2020 compiled by the Guardian, women were arrested for five of the 12 instances. And now: an insurrection.

Babbitt and Boyland were supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement that has formed around a baseless belief, born on the internet, that Trump has been secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring. It is the latest polite mask for white supremacy and was instrumental in driving the insurrection.

Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol, QAnon--which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is driven largely by suburban white women - particularly mothers. It has elected two representatives to Congress, both white women.

Pause and ponder that for a moment: a movement labeled a domestic terror threat is driven by white suburban women. According to a timeline of violence linked to QAnon between 2018-2020 compiled by the Guardian, women were arrested for five of the 12 instances. And now: an insurrection.

Trump has refused to denounce QAnon and repeats their conspiracies. Why would he denounce a group that is driven by white women, who have been consistently voting Republican since 1952 because it is in their interest to protect the interests of white patriarchy, that same white patriarchy which promises to provide for and to protect them? Until it doesn’t, and it literally crushes them under its feet during an insurrection in the name of a vicious misogynist who has been accused by more than 20 women of sexual assault.

Imagine the authorities profiling, pursuing, entrapping, and surveilling white women, especially now that we know how eager they were to join an insurrection, including a female veteran who zealously carried out here what she was trained to do overseas.

Of course Trump would not denounce a group driven by a demographic that he repeatedly appealed to using the ugliest of racist foghorns during his election campaign. White suburban women returned the favour and delivered their votes.

I bear not a shred of sympathy for any of these women. White supremacist violence is never taken seriously in the United States. Its female adherents, consistent with the usual presumption of white women’s innocence, even less so.

Ashli Babbitt reminds me of the men who joined the mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan only to return home to Egypt or Algeria and turn their guns on governments there. Is the U.S. ready to make those connections?

Compare the zeal with which the U.S. has profiled, pursued, entrapped and surveilled Muslims suspected of terrorism with the reluctance bordering on complicity that it reserves for investigating or taking seriously white domestic terror. Now imagine the authorities profiling, pursuing, entrapping, and surveilling white women, especially now that we know how eager they were to join an insurrection, including a female veteran who zealously carried out here what she was trained to do overseas.

The very idea is laughable - profiling white women! Understand that I don't want anyone profiled or surveilled. I want you instead to see how much white womanhood gets away with.

If they were not white, from any other country, or certainly if they were Muslim, these women would be called fanatics, thus is the privilege of whiteness. White womanhood is privilege sweetened with an innocence and fragility that white women--liberal or conservative, Trump-voting or not--are adept at weaponizing.

Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob braying for violence from the upper echelons of the U.S. government, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.

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In various media accounts Boyland’s family and friends describe her as a “loving sister, an attentive aunt” and a “dear, dear friend, an amazing friend,” She is said to have been “compassionate” and “always put others first.”

Babbitt is described as “never afraid to speak her mind” and her sedition: “in a way, this was her way of speaking her mind.” We are told that the woman who survived a war of regime change in other countries only to be killed attempting regime change in her own country “loved her country and she was doing what she thought was right to support her country, joining up with like-minded people that also love their president and their country.”

Babbitt and Boyland’s families insisted they “really don’t know why she decided to do this.” The innocence afforded white womanhood! Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob, braying for violence, from the upper echelons of the U.S. government, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves.

Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.

But those comparisons must be made. As I read that the bereaved relatives of the dead women say they had argued with them not to go, or that QAnon had created a wedge within families, it reminds me of the backstories of armed Islamists I reported when I was a Reuters correspondent in Cairo and later of the women who became suicide bombers for movements such al-Qaeda. Babbitt reminds me of the men who joined the mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan only to return home to Egypt or Algeria and turn their guns on governments there. Is the U.S. ready to make those connections?

When U.S. media have taken deep dives into QAnon, it is stunning how much fuckery white women get away with and for which they are given so many excuses. QAnon provides a convenient disguise behind which white women channel their far-right white supremacist fuckery into concern for children. That’s effectively what drives the group. And who dares argue with that most deified of creatures, the white mother?

Again and again, the audacity of white womanhood obscures and obfuscates the violence that white women are allowed to get away with.

During a pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and mothers of colour, the “trauma” of white mothers is elevated and used to justify their preponderance for a dangerous conspiracy. Even as that danger grew, and so brazenly expressed itself in the run-up to the insurrection, its whiteness and its femininity gave it cover.

It is reminiscent of the ways Trump’s victory in 2016 was explained away with references to the “suffering working class” (read: white working class) and not the actual racism that was a driving force.

Again and again, the audacity of white womanhood obscures and obfuscates the violence that white women are allowed to get away with.

On Wednesday, as Babbit and Boyland sacrificed their lives in an insurrectionist war on behalf of Donald Trump in the nation’s capital, another white woman who had joined pro-Trump insurrectionists in downtown Los Angeles declared a “new civil war” by assaulting a Black woman, Berlinda Nibo, who had got caught up in the mob.

#5: Cassandra Ferragamo of Huntington Beach was so confident in the audacity of her white womanhood that she brazenly grabbed Berlinda Nibo’s wig and tore it off as the white mob kettled Nibo, pushed her around, smacked her, and pepper-sprayed her. Ferragamo was so confident in the audacity of her white womanhood that she later boasted on video “Fuck BLM, I’ll snatch your fucking weave off!” as she waved Nibo’s wig in the air, like a trophy. “I did that. I did the first scalping of the new civil war!”

Berlinda Nibo said she punched Cassandra Ferragamo in the face. And that was the best news I read all day.

#white femininity #racism cw #white supremacy cw #america #misogynoir cw

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astirysk2electricboogaloo · 10 months

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I got the majority of this information from the YouTuber Annamarie Forcino's video "The Alarming "Gnome Hunting" Trend No One's Talking About". (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0bZOMuVFs)

This post is to help spread this information.

Please be aware:

• If you come across anything with the term "gnome hunting" or anything listed below online, block and report the account immediately. If you come across it offline, covertly and safely get the absolute fuck out of there. Warn others.

• Keep yourself safe. As with any bullshit like this these people may be violent. The wearing of tactical gear and the use of the word hunting when talking about a group of human beings is not peaceful or respectful of life. Exercise caution. Especially if you are in a group the groups they're in target.

• This is mostly on TikTok, DO NOT SEARCH FOR IT ON SITES WITH THE ALGORITHM. This will drive engagement and help it spread. If you come across it block and report it but do not search it.

The term "gnome hunting" is being used by antisemitists/neonazis/white supremacists to refer to themselves, they themselves being the "hunters" and those they target, Jews, being the "gnomes" and is a way for them to talk in code.

Things to watch out for with this specific wave of antisemitic bullshit are but are not limited to:

"join the hunt" = join us.

"millions wear the hats" millions = the Jews, hats = the Jewish Yarmulke/Kippah (a Jewish head covering). This phrase refers to Jewish people in general. When they use this phrase they are talking about Jews.

"kike" a slur against those of Jewish descent and or those who are practicing Judaism.

"88" H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 88 = hh = "hail hitler".

"⚡⚡" "ᛋᛋ" "ϟϟ" Two lightning bolt emojis, two Greek letter ᛋ's, or two lighting bolt symbols side by side = the nazi ss. The nazi ss flag is two lighting bolt symbols side by side.

"Z" or "z" The English letter Z/z is used by russian nazis against Ukrainians who are being murdered by and suffering war crimes at the hands of russian nazis since the current russian dictator putin invaded Ukraine. Has unfortunately spread and is being used by nazis in other countries. The symbol has similarities to the wolfsangel.

"Ƶ" The wolfsangel. An ancient runic symbol believed to have been capable of warding off wolves, appropriated by nazi organizations in nazi Germany. Still used by white supremacists/nazis today.

(Cannot find a symbol for this.) The sunwheel, sonnenrad, or black sun. A symbol from old Norse and old Celtic culture. Also appropriated by nazis, still used by neonazis today.

"schizopost" "schizoposting" Used by neonazis when they use neurodivergence/mental illness (they do not struggle with) as an excuse for their bullshit. Ex: saying "I'm insane" "I'm schizophrenic" "me and the boys being schizophrenic" in the same post about "gnome hunting" or with any relation to nazi/white supremacists ideology.

#antisemitists #antisemitism #nazi mentioned #white supremacists #Cw nazism #tw nazism #tw white supremacy #Cw white supremacy #tw antisemitism #cw antisemitism #Jewish #Judaism #gnome hunting

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vague-humanoid · 5 months

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#rape mention cw #anti zionisim #colonialism #white supremacy tw

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bi-trans-alliance · 11 months

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Pride attendees at Bozeman Pride in Montana dancing to 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor in front of white supremacists

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#lgbtq #lgbt #pride #montana #bozeman #white supremacy cw //#homophobia cw //#transphobia cw //#queerphobia cw //#video

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thecosmicpunk · 1 month

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I saw so many posts about this last year but I haven't seen anyone give an update about him so here it is.

Ralph Yarl, a 16 year old Black boy in Missouri who was shot by a white man in April 2023 because he rang the doorbell of the wrong house when he went to pick up his younger brothers, survived being shot in the head and arm. He was still conscious after being shot, going door to door trying to find help, everybody but one person shut the door in his face.

He is now 17 and has a spot in Missouri's all-state-band, he plays the clarinet and saxophone.

#Ralph Yarl #black lives matter #punk #racism #cw shooting #no one is free until we are all free #antiblackness #blm #white supremacy #2023 #missouri #kansas city #gun violence #hate crime #justice for ralph yarl

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I got a very intense kin memory mid-argument today with someone. Someone was arguing that I can't speak on Native issues despite having grown up on the Reservation and speaking fluent Cherokee because I'm "only" one-fourth (@ white people, blood quantums are a racist tool of oppression and race is not biological, just a heads up that these are white supremacist talking points you shouldn't be repeating) and I remembered the Foundation refusing to let me have sage and refusing to believe I was Native due to my blue eyes. Which, considering I was used as D-Class personnel because my history of Native activism meant the government wouldn't care if I was grabbed by the Foundation and used as fodder for their purposes, is both hilarious and stupid. Why is the multiversal constant the insistence on race being biological when science has disproved that many times over? - the Protagonist of SCP Containment Breach (but I also appear to be canon with mainline SCP Foundation lore as a whole)

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #scpkin #mckin #scpcontainmentbreachkin #memories issue #racism cw #blood quantum cw #white supremacy cw #anti indigenous racism cw #mod party cat!

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qqueenofhades · 9 months

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The obsession with whitewashing American slavery is deeply fascinating and horrifying to me. Like yes, there was slavery in pre-colonial Africa! It was also in Asia! And the Americas! And in *gasp* Europe too! White people also enslaved other white people! (Not that we ever hear about it though… gotta vilify people of color as savages!!!) But those forms of slavery haven’t had far reaching ramifications to this day the same way American slavery has, screwing over a continent and the people who were enslaved and left a plethora of racial stereotypes and systemic racism that still harms people today. It’s that simple. Unlike Greek slavery and Roman slavery and even pre-colonial African slavery, the ramifications of the transatlantic slave trade and American slavery are STILL ongoing, and I don’t get why it’s so hard for the right wing to understand this.

I mean, I've written a lot of posts about this, but this is the basic essence of it. It's not that they don't understand it, it's just not profitable or useful for them to do so, so they don't. Besides, they don't think it was a) actually that bad or b) that anything should be done to redress the results of that badness in modern-day life, because as far as they're concerned, that was and is what black people deserve and they don't understand why everyone is making such a fuss about it.

And yet there's some tiny withered part of them that does know they need to come up with an excuse that sounds even remotely close to what ordinary people believe. That's why they're going in with DeSantis' "let's teach that slavery was sometimes good for black people actually!" bullshit and followed it up with "the Holocaust was good for Jews actually," because there's no epochal, stain-on-humanity atrocity that cannot be usefully revised in the diseased little minds of White Supremacist Moral Self Righteousness. Alas.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #cw white supremacy #cw antisemitism

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awakefor48hours · 4 days

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https://www.tumblr.com/awakefor48hours/748403705541476353/the-owl-house-has-multiple-aroace-characters-most?source=share but wait, Elsewhere and Elsewhen Philip wasn't a white supremacist tho??? Unless you just said that for the post, which is fine I guess.

But he literally is. In every episode, he is a white supremacist. I know that there’s a lot of information that we have to extrapolate to fully figure out his past but Belos always has been a white supremacist.

#anon #cw white supremacy #cw racism #tw racism #tw white supremacy

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sxnshxnxxnddxxsxxs · 5 days

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i really feel like we don’t discuss enough just how deep jkr’s white supremacy goes

like it’s way more than just:

cho chang’s name

almost every black character being tall and sporty

kingley’s name

the goblins

the house elves

the only south asian thing about the patil twins being their names

there’s way more but those are the talking points that are usually discussed in the white supremacy context of jkr’s bigotry.

but there’s something else that i find to be particularly insidious which i don’t see that many conversations about.

so for context when i did my a level i had had to research late 19th century pseudoscience because i was studying gothic literature. and i came across things like phrenology and the criminal mind and honestly it feels like jkr discovered these theories and just ran with them.

as a quick explanation phrenology is the theory that by studying the shape of someone’s skull you can see if they’re predisposed to criminality and lombroso’s criminal mind is the theory that criminality is hereditary and you can tell by observing someone’s physical features. it’s also the general consensus in both these theories that someone with physical ‘defects’ or deformities’ will be predisposed to criminality which also makes them incredibly ableist.

both are incredibly eugenicist and white supremacist theories because they’re essentially saying that you can tell if someone is inherently good or bad and thereby whether they deserve to be alive/within society/treated as equals by looking at their physical features.

they are both complete bullshit pseudoscience with no real basis in fact.

now where this comes into hp and jkr is that the antagonists and the villains of the series are disproportionately described as having these very negative physical characteristics.

like the very obvious one is voldemort with no nose and being snakelike.

but also the way peter pettigrew is described.

“His thin, colourless hair was unkempt and there was a large bald patch on top. He had the shrunken appearance of a plump man who had lost a lot of weight in a short time. His skin looked grubby, almost like Scabbers’s fur, and something of the rat lingered around his pointed nose, his very small, watery eyes.” (poa ch 19)

like the man is literally being compared to an animal (yes i know it’s implied in the lore that the longer one stays in their animagus form the more traits they take on but the point still stands).

then there’s marcus flint who as far as i remember is literally just a minor antagonist.

“Marcus Flint was even larger than Wood. He had a look of trollish cunning on his face as he replied” (cos ch 7)

like she really has a thing for comparing people to animals which is a very common tool in white supremacy for dehumanising people.

and then there’s greyback

“a big, rangy man with matted grey hair and whiskers, whose black Death Eater’s robes looked uncomfortably tight. He had a voice like none that Harry had ever heard: a rasping bark of a voice. Harry could smell a powerful mixture of dirt, sweat and, unmistakeably, of blood coming from him. His filthy hands had long yellowish nails.” (hbp ch 27)

now admittedly it’s slightly different with greyback since jkr is very openly saying in the narrative that he’s less than human and too dangerous for society because jkr only believes in equality for muggleborns and no one else.

but as is stands there are so many examples some big some small of the physical descriptions of villains and antagonists having negative connotations. the reason that it’s so insidious is because this is a children’s book series. and children soak up information like sponges including the implication that the further you are from the beauty standards the worse of a person you are (something that is reinforced by society). then when you place that in the context of the west where hp is most popular then it becomes the further away you are from whiteness (the western beauty standard) the worse of a person you are.

it seems like a really small thing which is why i don’t think it gets discussed nearly as much as the more overt things but even the small pebbles can have large ripple effects. besides i think think it’s incredibly important to discuss every aspect of jkr’s bigotry.

#anti jkr #fuck jkr #seriously fuck her #hp meta #harry potter meta #cw jkr #i do not support jkr #jkr is trash #screw jkr #literary analysis #harry potter analysis #tw white supremacy #tw ableism #tw racsim #tw eugenics #pseudoscience

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bisexualvalve · 2 years

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Why women have always been essential to white supremacist movements

Any social movement demanding a radical transformation of society needs the support and leadership of women. In 2017, women led the largest protest in United States history, and a grassroots uprising against sexual harassment in the workplace.

For the far right, women are vital propagandists and figureheads. White supremacy needs women, too. It always has.

According to Gordon, women were on board immediately — editing newspapers, organizing lectures and establishing Sunday School-like programs for children. While the Roaring ‘20s introduced young girls to jazz music, soda fountains and bobbed hair, the Women’s KKK promised a return to family values and traditional morality.

“Women did a tremendous amount of the Klan labor,” Gordon told Mic. “Women organized Klan rights of passage, baptisms, graduations, marriages and funerals. Every time they put on a big pageant or lecture, you can be sure that it was women who were doing the publicity and collecting the food.”

Conservative women at the time were able money managers and eager public speakers, and organizing with the Klan offered both a political outlet as well as what Gordon called “clubby solidarity.” Gordon said a low-ball estimate would put women’s enrollment in the Klan at 1.5 million at its highest point in 1923. In Indiana, over a third of all white protestant women were members, she said.

The women of the KKK were even able to marshall progressive ideas about women’s independence to construct a new brand of white supremacist feminism. Not all visions of women’s equality serve all women equally, Gordon said.

Here’s Mic’s conversation with Gordon about women in the KKK, edited for length and clarity:

Mic: When we talk about fascistic movements and the violence of the KKK, many refer to the masculinity of these movements as alienating in itself. Why would the KKK appeal to women at all in the 1920s?

Linda Gordon: I think the bottom line is there’s no reason to expect women to be less bigoted than men. Partly, we know that women, like men, are often susceptible to a strongman. And there are occasions in which women who may not have been vigilantes themselves, nevertheless, supported vigilantism.

And a key factor is that women had just won the vote, 1920, the Constitutional Amendment, and although it took a long time for women to begin to vote in large numbers, there were some who were really eager to follow that and see what engaging in politics would be like.

What roles did the women take on within the movement?

LG: We see, here, a kind of contradiction that you find in a lot of conservative movements. Not even ones as far to the right as this, which is that you will have people who articulate a very conservative, conventional view of gender roles: women belong in the home, women’s destiny is to be mothers.

Many women were trying to do their public-sphere activism, like regular KKK members, even while they are still doing their domestic labor. They were still mothers, they were still cooking, they were still supporting the men.

You called your chapter on women “KKK Feminism,” which made me think of today’s white nationalist movement and its own version of feminism — returning to traditional gender roles.

LG: I think I named it that almost deliberately, to be provocative, because I want people to understand that feminism comes in all versions. You can have not only racist feminism, you can have feminism that speaks only to corporate leaders. You’ll remember Sheryl Sandberg’s book, called Lean In — that advice is totally irrelevant for 95% of the women in the United States. If you’re working at Walmart, or even if you’re a college professor, it’s not a useful strategy. It’s very limited.

There is a tendency for people to think of feminism as one coherent whole, which it has never been.

What kind of women are served by that KKK version of feminism?

LG: These women shared with men a hostility evoked by fear. That’s the heart of demagoguery: Not only do you claim the victim position, but you make people afraid.

What most puzzled me was the fact that people in the Klan could believe claims that were so outrageous on their face, that most of us would think this is absurd. They felt threatened as white people, even in a state like Oregon, where there were hardly any people of color.

There was a recent poll by NPR that said 55% of white Americans today feel discriminated against. But far fewer actually reported experiencing any discrimination. So you have a swathe of white people reporting discrimination they’ve never experienced. Where, then, does a narrative of grievance come from?

LG: The creation of fear is absolutely central. Demagogues take your grievances — whether they’re economic, or a feeling that you’re losing status — and tell a story that blames minority groups, in this case. They always put the blame downward at the people who are less advantaged, never upward at the people who have more power.

These fears are seemingly impervious to facts. The claim that immigrants are taking white people’s jobs was absolutely not true in the 1920s, but they heard these claims from people that you respect.

Part of that is also true about modern women of the so-called “alt-right,” that their traditionalism that comes from Christian fundamentalism. How did the Christianity of the 1920s prepare many women for their roles in the KKK?

LG: Before joining an organization like the Klan, when women were involved in social groups, they were often church-related. Women were fundamental in raising money for those churches. They organized the bake sales and social events. For many of those women, the slide into the Klan was a completely organic move from that religion.

Part of it, I suspect, also has to do with a deference to religious authority. But we cannot underestimate the extent to which this was all completely self-serving. The Klan, in many ways, the ’20s Klan was a huge for-profit corporation.

This seems very bizarre as a form of a social movement today, but to the Klan it was entirely consistent. There’s nothing about that kind of Evangelicalism that repeats the Christian tradition of helping the poor and the people at the bottom.

In their view, the profit motive was the most important force in making America what it was.

#white supremacy cw #kkk cw #racism cw #white femininity #america

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