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La Scap has written extensively about women's rights & child safeguarding. She's a left wing Serbian woman who survived massive upheaval & had to escape the conflict in her birth country. To call her "racist right" is to ignore all the evidence of her character, her words and her life But it's part of the wider fairytale that goes: Once Upon A Time the terven went fascist & turned on the poor noble left wing feminists who, alone, despise the nazis. Who alone stand brave & true against hatred & racism & cruelty. It is such a head up one's own arse narrative, my gosh. I'm sorry but you are not special or rare for coming to the conclusion nazi = bad In reality, many women woke up & decided that particular small group of prominent left wing feminists were fundamentally wrong in parts of their analysis An analysis that, at that time, conceded female language to men, didnt prioritise trans widows & female prisoners, & wasnt willing to go the root of the problem in law. Despite claiming to spring from radical feminism An analysis that also insisted there were untouchable women in this fight that we mustn't get close to in case we got danger cooties. And if we did it would in turn make us untouchable women too (which, to the LWF, it did). For example, the reason the attempt at ostracising Posie Parker was such a big issue isn't, as those left wing feminists would have it, that Posie is fash & we all chose to eventually join her in a jolly goose step against their advice. The divide isn't a political one really Because at the point where she was surrounded by a baying mob in New Zealand and no flicker of female Solidarity stirred in most of that small group to even speak up about that violence we reached a point of no return. Even for many of those who didn't agree with her on many things Another point of no return was publishing a whole magazine issue about her politics while not having the grace to accurately represent her, give her right of reply or sincerely engage with those women who were risking their safety at her public meetings, & facing male violence. There was an active effort to shame women into agreement with the LWF and dramatics when it didn't work. I've been wrong multiple times on here, and I will be again, but I do try to listen to other women who have experiences and perspectives I don't... And the BIGGEST fault line between the small group of left wing feminists & a majority of the movement has been the total inability by the LWF to listen, discuss, &understand the perspectives of others. To even treat those perspectives as possibly legitimate, because the second we've broken with their worldview we've been rewritten as soft on nazis or bullies or "racist right". It's the energy of the witchunt and it has fostered an incredibly toxic environment, led to the inevitable "infighting" and meant that a lot of women who otherwise could have focused entirely on the serious fight have also had to take their eye off the ball at least now and again to check if everything is still on fire I am certain sincere LWF have also been swept up in the inferno and endured very personal remarks because of it too because once the pies start flying we all get custard to the face But at the very centre of it all you don't have Posie who largely said fuck off and went her own way when the LWF wouldnt stand with her. Or someone like Aja whose been accused and maligned You instead have those, like JCJ, who are very comfortable maligning vast numbers of women (mothers, lesbians, disabled women, trans widows, women trying to change policy in different fields etc) while consistently behaving like the fellow child in the playground who pulls your ponytail until you push her off you & then cries to the teacher that you've attacked her The terven deserved far better So does La Scap The poster here is lying and, worse, probably doesn't know it because the propaganda against other women by JCJ et al has worked so very well Yuk

I’ve been reading this fascinating book that won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research It looks at what nazis thought using their own sources to scrutinise their ideology I’m a third of the way through it, and there’s already so much information that helps explain how they did so much evil. For example, they believed that a ‘true’ German didn’t really need the law (which they thought of as a Jewish malady anyway) to guide their morality. They thought a true German would somehow have innate instincts about what was right and wrong and those instincts were therefore infallible. So in the end, those who fit what they thought of as a true German could have justified anything to themselves and others. And we all know how far that went. Then they also didn’t see people (even their ‘own’ people) as distinct individuals who happened to be part of a whole. The whole was everything and all. The only goal being a “pure” race who would perpetuate forever. You can see how quickly ideas like that could snowball. And how that mindset would lead to murder in the hands of the kind of people who would commit to it. Individual rights were totally eroded for the “survival” of the race…and thus individuals were dispensable to that goal. I think that without individual rights you can’t really have individual protections. Or even the concept of such. There’s a lot here, and the writing is quite dense, but it’s very informative. Even the things I already knew are better explained. And it’s often a good insight into a certain type of predator too…like reading how a shark might think about the little fishes. …Do you know what though? Nothing in here so far reminds me of the women fighting trans ideology on twitter. So it’s extra fascinating to be reading it just as we are all being called far right (again). And this time (again) by some who say they are feminists. The lessons from Nazi Germany are crucial. But those who insist on misusing those lessons to whack women on the fingers, like a Victorian teacher with a ruler, are doing nothing to learn anything. I think it’s just a power play for them. They can use these accusations to diminish and control women, to alienate them from each other, to mark them, and to silence frank discussions. This silencing of frank discussions is especially important because the kind of niche activist doing this doesn’t want you to think for yourself when they can think for you instead. They want you to sit at their feet and nod along. Not just on one issue, but on all issues that matter to them. If you are high enough up the pecking order you might get to sit beside them mouthing the words along with them. But the desire is the same; for you to be a mirror and for you to show them their reflection. Anything else seems to read as a threat to them. So you can be good, kind, interesting, funny, clever, the whole shebang, and still worthless to them if you step out of line even a little. Alienating people from discussion at every turn is not the strategy of altruists or leaders. The irresponsible high drama of calling people far right at the drop of a hat is much more about keeping control of the in group than about making the world a better place. I can’t help but think it’s a very pro far right behaviour, too, given that it will help them blend into the wider crowd. Much harder to find the real far right if you’ve put then in a ballroom with a bunch of Mumsnetters, determined women, grooming gang rape victims and ordinary people dissatisfied with the current state of the world and are insisting these people and the far right are the same & as to the endless guilt by association… they won’t believe we aren’t far right, even if we say it five times fast on Sundays & twice after pudding. Because we aren’t perfectly reflecting them anymore we can only be bad 🤷‍♀️ Meanwhile, even as they rage, women& children still need protection from the violence of men of all politics