{"id":253,"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/alt-feminism-and-the-white-nationalist-women-who-love-it-f8ee20cd30d9\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:21:30","slug":"alt-feminism-and-the-white-nationalist-women-who-love-it-f8ee20cd30d9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/alt-feminism-and-the-white-nationalist-women-who-love-it-f8ee20cd30d9\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt-Feminism and the white nationalist women who love\u00a0it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alt-Feminism and the white nationalist women who love\u00a0it<\/h3>\n
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A gathering and conference of European and American white nationalists took place in Sweden<\/a> at the end of February. This conference didn\u2019t get much mainstream media coverage in either Europe or the US but it was extensively covered by the loose network of right wing and white nationalist blogs and YouTube channels. A portion of the event was crowdfunded and brought together a majority of Swedish and American speakers with at least one Estonian and one Scottish white nationalist. It was also live streamed and if open threads and forum discussions are to be believed, these streams were quite widely watched across both continents. The speeches are also currently available on YouTube where they have gathered pretty high view counts.<\/p>\n

I have watched a number of these speeches because I believe they are important artifacts in how they spell out ideological common grounds and how self perception operates to both articulate political visions and propel white nationalism further into the mainstream. These are not \u201cethnographic curiosities\u201d, in the sense of small and inconsequential ideologues discussing zoning laws but a growing number of people who have found a role model in the Trump administration. One common thread in all the speeches is the constant reminder of how awesome it is to be white. As Sander Philipse<\/a> pointed out to me in a recent chat, they resemble pep talks where speakers constantly remind each other that they are \u201cright and good<\/em>\u201d. Across the speeches, there is also a constant repetition that war in Europe is either imminent or a necessity. A war that is going to be waged against non white people, immigrants, the left, commies, globalists and an assortment of vaguely defined enemies that are not part of the white nationalist movement.<\/p>\n

In another example of the group\u2019s self perception, the Scottish speaker known as \u201cMillennial Woes\u201d, kept talking<\/a> about the failures of the left and he articulated what he believes to be \u201cleftist political strategy\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe methods of the left: control, censor, guilt trip, gaslight, demonize, ostracize and manipulate the narrative stealthily and always cry out in pain as you strike your enemy. That\u2019s the left as manifested in media and technology today\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He kept stating that \u201cthe left<\/em>\u201d betrays its own ideals when it celebrates Richard Spencer\u2019s punch and that \u201cThe left are not accepting the new status quo of Brexit and Trump. <\/em>They are not getting on with the program<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. That the white nationalists are encountering resistance seems to come as a shock to the conference speakers.<\/p>\n

I have written before about the \u201calt-feminism\u201d<\/a> and how white nationalists have appropriated feminist ideas to advance their cause. So, of particular interest to me, was Lana Lokteff\u2019s speech \u201cHow the Left is Betraying Women<\/a>\u201d. Lokteff is not a minor figure in the US alt-right movement. In fact, if there is an alt-feminist leadership, Lokteff would be their top figure. She hosts a popular radio show in the white nationalist circuit and is a regular guest of some well known YouTube channels. Sarah Posner interviewed her<\/a> for her post election profile of the alt-right in Rolling Stone. Lokteff is a Holocaust, Native American and Armenian genocides denialist who also claims she doesn\u2019t \u201chate Jews\u201d.<\/p>\n

I have transcribed what, to me, are the salient points of her speech. I believe that these are ideologically important statements that are worth noting since they pick on a number of political issues that are part of contemporary feminism. If we are to understand why white women vote these ideologies aside from the more visible reasons (racism being probably the main one), Lotkeff\u2019s speech can shed light into the attraction of white nationalism and, at the same time, explain why there were so many shocked reactions when white women massively voted for Donald Trump. Lotkeff herself addresses this in the speech saying \u201cIt was white women who got Trump elected and to be real edgy, it was also white women who got Hitler elected<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Verbatim (unless otherwise noted) from her speech:<\/p>\n