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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:46AM (5 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:46AM (#628750) Journal

    None of it even makes sense! Who the fuck is Heimbach?!

    Just for the record, this liberal supports their effort to maybe post some posters somewhere...

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:06AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:06AM (#628758) Journal

    Who the fuck is Heimbach?!

    Meet "the poor guy" Matthew Heimbach [rationalwiki.org]

    Matthew Heimbach (born April 8, 1991) is a young white separatist, Neo-Nazi, racist Confederate supporter and co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party and the Traditionalist Youth Network. He is considered a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[1]

    Heimbach attracted some notoriety after founding a "White Student Union" at Towson University (Baltimore, Maryland) in 2012, and again in 2014 when he joined the Eastern Orthodox Church and was subsequently excommunicated for promoting racism. Heimbach's fellow neo-Nazis, on the other hand, have attacked him for not being racist enough. The poor guy just can't win.

    America killer
    Heimbach is known for chanting "Death To America", which to him means that he wants to move to Iran the United States divided up into racially homogeneous mini-states, one of which would be called "Avalon". TheTraditionalist Youth Network encourages supporters to become knights of Avalon. They must be Roxy Music fans. [2] [aljazeera.com][3] [tradyouth.org]

    Pushy
    In 2016, two criminal complaints were filed against him for shoving a protester at a Donald Trump rally in Kentucky; at least one other complaint was filed in connection with that March 1st rally.[4] [courier-journal.com][5] [lex18.com] During 2017 trial proceedings for that incident, he claimed along with one other of his co-defendants that co-defendant Trump incited the violence.[6]

    Traditionalist Worker Party
    The Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) is Mr. Heimbach's Neo-Nazi,[note 1] Third Positionist party.[note 2] It was founded with Matthew Parrott and Tony Hovater in 2015.[7] [splcenter.org][8] [washingtonpost.com] TWP's core principles are those of protecting Faith (mainly Christian faith), Family (nuclear family) and Folk (not all folk of course, only white folk). Its slogan is close to the Nazis Kinder, Küche, Kirche mantra. It's a spin-off of the Traditionalist Youth Network. The logo of the Traditionalist Workers Party is a mechanical wheel (representing industry) and a pitchfork (representing agriculture). Hovater was featured in a puff piece by the New York Times in November 2017 that was widely criticized.[9] [nytimes.com][8] [washingtonpost.com]

    North Korea supporter
    Oddly enough, despite North Korea showing extreme hatred towards his home country, Matthew Heimbach is a supporter of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to Heimbach, "North Korea is a nation that stands against imperialism and globalism around the world". He even posted a tweet commemorating North Korea's independence day on his now-suspended Twitter account praising its "Nationalist culture, Policies for racial purity, Opposes Globalism" with a message "Happy Independence Day North Korea".[10] [nknews.org]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:43AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:43AM (#628782)

      Chanting "Death to America" is bad now? Leftists and their Naked Emperor Obama didn't seem to mind when they were sending planes filled with unmarked cash directly to Iran, despite the President's own State Department declaring them the world's #1 financier of terrorism.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday January 27 2018, @10:25AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @10:25AM (#628787) Journal

        Chanting "Death to America" is bad now?

        (shhhh... not so loud, you fool.
        If you ask me, no, it's doubleplusgood if so you like, I can't care less, me not living in USA; do whatever you like with you country, it's yours, I have no right to tell you what to do with.
        I only pointed that, indeed, those are neo-nazis and indeed they plan to get involved in a counter-demonstration. I don't know, thinking the last time it happened, maybe my documented warning may save some lives.

        However, there's this person, goes under the jmorris pseudonym here, he's a true evergreen unwavering patriot, the child of revolutionaries, he owes them the duty to uphold and defend what was given to him, that which was purchased so dearly in Patriot blood [soylentnews.org].
        I don't think he'll be pleased to hear you... but maybe he'll forgive you this time if you promise you let him keep his gun. You promise, right?)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @05:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @05:16PM (#628965)

        you are confusing Saudi Aramco and Iran. Iran (shias) is against ISIS (sunnites), unlike the Arabs. remember that the 911 hijacker were from Saudi Arabia...

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:22PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:22PM (#628823) Journal

    that Heimbach [Leader of the Traditionalist Workers' Party]

    I think the clue to the answer is in TFS.