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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 27 2018, @03:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the You-fight-like-a-girl dept.

A couple days back, Newsweek reports:

Feminist activists on Sunday are planning to commemorate last year's Women's March, the response to the election of President Donald Trump that was widely regarded as the biggest demonstration in U.S. history.

As they do so, the so-called alt-right—an anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic movement that has struggled to recruit women—is aiming to co-opt this political moment with a series of stunts, including spreading propaganda and a counterdemonstration in Knoxville, Tennessee. This targeting of a feminist event is part of an ongoing pattern of misogynistic behavior in the movement, according to activists and a rights group that spoke to Newsweek.

[...] Trolls from 4chan, an imageboard website that is popular with the alt-right, are planning to post signs at women's studies departments on college campuses Sunday with the hashtag #mybordermychoice, a deliberate perversion of the abortion-rights slogan "my body my choice," according to a series of posts on the site and research conducted by antifascist activists.

[...] Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a rights group, told Newsweek that Heimbach [Leader of the Traditionalist Workers' Party] is "no defender of women," referring to altercations involving the opposite sex he has had at demonstrations.

Heimbach replied to that notion by saying legal abortion and illegal immigration were victimizing the unborn and women, and that "women have had their femininity put under attack by a culture that treats them as either sex objects or as mere economic cogs in the capitalist system." Heimbach is a critic of the capitalist system while also being a critic of socialism, and views a "national socialism" system that includes only white non-Jews as an alternative to both. He said the policies of his group were structured to "empower women to their God given honorable place as true equals to men in society through their unique role as mothers and wives." To be clear, he is an ardent critic of contemporary feminism.

Message received, very clear.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @04:26AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @04:26AM (#628711)

    I speak only The Truth. The Truth of the past. The Truth of the present. The Truth of the future. You, however, worship falsehoods. Vanish, I say! The Truth will prevail over the falsehoods you so desperately believe in!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @05:10AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @05:10AM (#628725)

    I guess this just goes to show that at least here, on these forums, anyone is free to speak his mind and air his thoughts in public.

    You, sir, may run your flag up, but I respectfully withhold the action of saluting it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @06:16AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @06:16AM (#628731)

      Resembles an insane asylum, in that regard.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:58AM (2 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:58AM (#628812) Homepage Journal

        Entertaining, ain't it?

        --
        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:52PM (#629080)

          No it isn't. Not surprised you think it is though.

          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:25PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:25PM (#629154)

            No it's Aristarchus.

            FTFY

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @07:22AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @07:22AM (#629358)

      Oh, believe me, I've got my own special little salute for this crap.