Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March

By Michael Edison Hayden

Newsweek•January 20, 2018

Feminist activists on Sunday are planning to commemorate last year’s Women’s March, the response to the election of President Donald Trump that was widely regarded as the biggest demonstration in U.S. history.

As they do so, the so-called alt-right—an anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic movement that has struggled to recruit women—is aiming to co-opt this political moment with a series of stunts, including spreading propaganda and a counterdemonstration in Knoxville, Tennessee. This targeting of a feminist event is part of an ongoing pattern of misogynistic behavior in the movement, according to activists and a rights group that spoke to Newsweek...

...Trolls from 4chan, an imageboard website that is popular with the alt-right, are planning to post signs at women’s studies departments on college campuses Sunday with the hashtag #mybordermychoice, a deliberate perversion of the abortion-rights slogan “my body my choice,” according to a series of posts on the site and research conducted by antifascist activists.

The hashtag #mybordersmychoice, which is a call to reduce the flow of immigrants to the U.S. and to ramp up deportations—two policies that are integral to alt-right politics—dates back to at least spring 2017. It started to percolate online in the second week of December, following the promotion of another hashtag, #ItsOktoBeWhite, which received sympathetic coverage on Fox News and in a variety of conservative publications...

...While this is happening, a self-described national socialist group linked to the alt-right, the Traditionalist Worker’s Party (TWP), is planning to stage a counterdemonstration to the second annual Women’s March in Knoxville. The counterprotest has forced Women’s March organizers to reroute their event, according to a report in USA Today...

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