White Male Supremacy is the Core of it all

[yellowdogintexas]

I received this in an email from Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda

It is a very good article. I have certainly believed this to be true for some time.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Here's some to read:

The hard right, in other words, wants to revive an older social order, before the Civil Rights Movement, women’s and gay liberation movements, and other social and political transformations upset what was a thoroughly white-dominated, patriarchal society. Gender, then – how it is understood, practiced and described in our laws – is clearly of central concern to the hard right. Their goal is to uphold male supremacy, a movement that scholar of right-wing movements Chelsea Ebin describes as “a complex system that serves to assert, support, and promote the supposed superiority of men,” and subjugate women, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people.

But in most scholarship and media focused on the hard right, the movement’s gender politics are taken for granted or given secondary importance. Writing and commentary on the Jan. 6 insurrection, for instance, has lifted up the role of white supremacy in the attack, but usually fails to explore the fact that the insurrectionists were not only overwhelmingly white but also overwhelmingly men (with some notable exceptions).

White supremacy is central to the hard right, but so is a desire to maintain a patriarchal society where people adhere to strictly defined gender roles and men act from a position of dominance.

Given the hard right’s actions over roughly the past year, it’s impossible to ignore the centrality of male supremacy in the movement. Even far-right extremists have noted the shift. “I’ve noticed in the last three or four years, there seems to be a lot of generalized resentment of women on the right, like beyond typical,” white nationalist podcaster Joseph Jordan said in a July 2022 podcast, calling the Republican Party’s positions akin to the “Reddit Manosphere,” a violently misogynistic online community.

[Initech]

2. Yup, modern conservatism is a neo Nazi movement. Been that way since the 80s.

Only now are they starting to reveal themselves as what they really are. It's like that part in super hero movies where the bad guy reveals his master plan before he attempts to finish off the hero.

[allegorical oracle]

3. Interesting article. Find some irony insofar as so many of the die-hard drumpsters I know (since way

back before djt) are dictated by the strong women in those marriages. One man refers to his wife, when she's out of earshot, as "she who must be obeyed." Decisions are made by the wives. It's though those men have remained children and they married their mothers. They all have sizable gun collections.