Extreme misogyny and white supremacy aren’t just related, they’re entangled – both see increased demands for equality coming at the expense of white privilege. I learned about fascism at my father’s knee. He explained to me that he was not a pacifist because some forces in the world have to be fought. Fascism is one such force. He enlisted to fight in the Second World War because of it. He was wounded on a beach in France, earning a Purple Heart from the U.S. Army. My father was not a man who glorified his memories of the war. But he did teach us that like the swastika, the “goose step” march of the Nazis was something to deplore. Extreme male rage was also a feature of my childhood. In reacting to it, I learned to be vigilant and walk on eggshells around a father who could storm about so as not to provoke his out-of-control behaviour. And so, as I watched the “Freedom Convoy” roll into Ottawa with Confederate flags and Nazi symbols, I was alarmed and frightened not only as a Jewish person but as a woman. According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, “the alt-right is a set of far-right ideologies, groups, and individuals whose core belief is that white identity is under attack.”
via nowtoronto: Op-ed: #FreedomConvoy and the link between misogyny and white supremacy