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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.
(Score: 3, Offtopic) by sigterm on Sunday January 28 2018, @01:56AM
>Why did this story get approved?
>It's essentially a straw man.
Indeed. Let's see here:
>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.
Oh yes, I remember now: the march led by one Ms. Linda Sarsour, a well-known islamist, sharia apologist and anti-semite, reviled by muslims and non-muslims alike. The same Linda Sarsour who tweeted that she'd like to confiscate the genitals of women such as Ayaan Hirshi Ali, since she dares to criticize political islam.
>As they do so, the so-called alt-right—an anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic movement that
>has struggled to recruit women—
You can call the alt-right anti-immigration and be mostly correct, but anti-semitic? Sure, there are race realists and anti-semites among the alt-right, but there are plenty of others too. But we don't want to acknowledge that, since that would prevent us from tarring them all with the same brush. Can't have that now, can we?
>Trolls from 4chan, an imageboard website that is popular with the alt-right, are planning
...something ominous, surely, since the messageboard is "is popular with the alt-right", which we've already equated with Nazis. And surely, some people were observed drinking coffee and eating burgers, both well-documented as being popular within the alt-right. We are clearly being overrun by fascists!
>according to a series of posts on the site and research conducted by antifascist activists.
Really? I'd really like to see this research and learn more about these activists. They wouldn't by any chance be associated with Antifa, an incredibly violent, Marxist terrorist organization? (And that's according to their own web page, except the "terrorist" part which is how the Dept. of Homeland Security classifies them.)
>Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a rights group,
An activist group that has been caught more than once falsifying facts to support claims of discrimination.
Sorry about the lack of links to the supporting evidence but surely, unless you've been living under a rock for the last 5 years, you should be able to identify all the above statements as statements of fact. And if not, Google is indeed your friend.