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So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women like Bette Midler that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home
That theocracy at home was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right? feministgiant.com
That theocracy right here at home was being built by white women who were their mothers, aunts, sisters and friends; white women who look just like them feministgiant.com
It's easy to see for people like Bette Midler to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you e.g. the Taliban making women cover their face again. The arrogance of thinking the people who look like you could ever take away your rights!
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The privilege of whiteness meant that for many in the U.S., there was something wrong with you if you lost a right. It only happened to people who weren't white, far away somewhere.
For those same white Americans, only Black & brown people in a far away country ended up with an authoritarian ruler; they deserve him somehow. And for those same white Americans, only Black & brown women were stripped of autonomy over their bodies; again,they deserved it somehow
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is that same arrogance and naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here" about abortion bans as well. feministgiant.com
Next time you're tempted to ask how women in Iran or Afghanistan could've “let it happen,”ask yourself how you allowed white,Christian zealots to use democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right which most Americans support.
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Fascism doesn't happen overnight. Theocracy is not built in a day. Remember the “Creeping Sharia'' crowd–white supremacist, Christian zealots, who passed bills and laws in the early 2000s to ban a non-existent threat from an “Islamic law” that no one in the U.S. said they wanted.
Those bills and laws were convenient fodder for fear mongering that fueled their constituents–who were also white supremacist, Christian zealots. Recognize that those who yelled “Creeping Sharia” loudest are the same spreading their Christian zealotry at every turn.
Because they were white and Christian they were therefore not considered dangerous.
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