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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 c0lo on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:27AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:27AM (#628763) Journal

    I can't find the "-99 depressing" mod.

    Mate, I'm really sorry to have overloaded your cynic muscle** bang in the middle of a long holiday, my sincere apologies.
    Time's not lost though, go grab a grease-smothered-charred-sausage sanga and wash it down with beer - try a keg by quantity, a slab may not be enough - it will muffle a bit the pain. Repeat the treatment tomorrow, fingers crossed 't'll help. Maybe.

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    ** I know it's not a consolation, mine proved too weak as well.
    Suddenly, the "no worries" attitude doesn't seem appropriate

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:14AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:14AM (#628775) Journal

    Australia will be that salvation of the world.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:29AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:29AM (#628802) Journal

      Oh, magister... anyway, in the words of a great actor and director... we're going to have -- we're going to have to have a little chat about that.
      I mean...look.. I though - yeah I though... when are you going to learn that the reality goes well beyond The Truth... your truth to be more precise... ? As old and full of texts as you are, you can't even imagine the reality... nobody can, this reality is fucking big.

      I think philosophers are so busy -- you know they're always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything... They are always devil's advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know, all that stuff. But, I think it is maybe time -- what do you think -- for maybe...

      --- Ok, fuck it magister. When it's serious, it's serious, it's serious! ---

      Why the fuck it had to be me to dig that shit and post it? It's fucking there, they aren't even trying to hide themselves (which is scary, I know). Are you afraid Google will punish you if you dig for it? Maybe the secret police? Is it below your dignity... or what?

      Promise me you'll get over the childish mocking editorializing (I think you call it.... shaming?)** and barely scratching the surface when you come with a story (newsweek... right) and do a proper job from now on when it comes about fucking American nazis. In return I'll drink a beer for you this long weekend.
      (don't ask for more than one, my bladder's bursting and you don't know what "a beer" means here downunder for a former east european creature, especially when the temperature hovers about 40C for days on end)

      (grin)

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      ** at least you actually skipped it this time, 's been noted.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:56PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:56PM (#628840) Homepage Journal

      More likely its doom. Everything there is poisonous, trying to kill you, or both.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:40AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:40AM (#628780) Journal
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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:33AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:33AM (#628804) Journal

      Oh, wow.
      Thanks mate, really appreciated.

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