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Wow, white womanhood is already doing its expected duty in regards to the fascist white woman who was shot. Didn’t see this energy for Heather Heyer, tbh.
A bunch of people are linguistically framing the fascist white lady as a victim who was tricked because the ideal white lady upholds white supremacy in a state of perpetual childlike innocence.
This is a white supremacist movement and she was a white supremacist former police officer and military vet.
In the late nineties/early aughts, white supremacist Christian groups trained online trolls to infiltrate communities in a position of weakness. Be a nice white lady. Be “polite” as you advocate for violent policy.
When people rightly resist your violent ideas, your politeness and white ladiness will cause to appear as a victim to other white people, many of whom will side with you and sympathize with you.
Never mind that you’re here specifically to claim that queerness is an abomination or that interracial marriage is wrong or that people who have abortions should be punished harshly. You were “polite” and weak. You’re the victim.
And it worked! It worked really well! People were like “I don’t agree with you but I appreciate how much nicer you are than those angry people directly threatened by your actually pretty mainstream ideas. I will protect you from the mean marginalized people.”
And the crack in the door was pushed open a little wider.
Heather Heyer was actively engaged against white supremacy when she was killed, so she got the Viola Liuzzo treatment.
The woman killed yesterday was literally trained in white supremacist violence. She was acting as part of a group that framed itself as a revolution.
White people on many political sides can feel sorrow and sympathy for this dead white supremacist lady. She handed a white man some luggage and chatted cheerfully!
White people, we are born into white supremacy and taught to sympathize primarily with other white people. We can see other white people as human, complex.
We are then taught to think white supremacy is ONLY monstrous, outside normal humanity, when it’s the air we breathe. Anyone who seems human, normal, cannot be white supremacy.
So when white supremacy, which is systemic and taught and engrained, is made visible to white people, we create states of exception.
We watched a white supremacist uprising yesterday and white owned media is not calling it by name because unfortunately, white supremacy indicts all white people. Whiteness is a state of harm.
It is a mobile, removable category that is often lent to people and taken from them. It is real and it is a construct. Buildings are constructed. Buildings are real.
Whiteness only exists in opposition to the global majority. It cannot exist without doing harm.
The white lady who died upholding white supremacy was a real person who bought into her whiteness. She got into Q, a white supremacist conspiracy theory, because it upheld her sense of white supremacist reality.
lol at people reminding me that she's a mother. Whose motherhood gets upheld as sacred? Whose motherhood is upheld as monstrous? I see you.
We saw this with Amy Coney Barrett. Her large family was treated as remarkable and special. Mothers of color with large families are portrayed in animalistic, dehumanizing ways.
Reproduction is racialized, buds. That's why we need reproductive justice, not just "choice."
I'm not special. I'm a white woman steeped in white supremacy. I'm doing my best to unlearn it, but every time I fuck up, I hurt people and cause harm. Every time.
And even when I'm individually doing my best, I live in a world that privileges me for the same things for which it harms others. This thread isn't an argument that it's fine that our police are lethal. This is anger at the way violence is contextualized.
If you need another example of white womanhood at work, check out racist daddy hat woman calling herself a “girl” and the 14yrold Black child she physically attacked a “guy.” Then she shushes the accomplished Black interviewer, as a topper.
