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Politics
Chauncey DeVega

Why white women embrace white supremacy

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

White women have played a central role in America's neofascist movement and its assault on multiracial pluralist democracy.

Either as figureheads or actual leaders, white women have stood at the forefront of the Republican Party's attempt to use the bogeyman of "critical race theory" to launch a widespread moral panic and restrict the teaching of American history. The ultimate goal is to severely undermine or fully destroy our current system of public education, and replace it with "patriotic" indoctrination meant to reinforce and protect white privilege and other forms of inequality.

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