Meet Sonia Gupta, bigot and misogynist

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Wow thanks to my writing about toxic bigot Ruby Hamad, I also discovered toxic bigot Sonia Gupta, who agrees with Ruby Hamad that white women are the devil.

After some exchanges with her I was set upon by the misogynist crew who admire her. One of them wouldn't stop sending misogynist trope gifs to me until I blocked him, another one just sent me a string of pointless insults until I blocked him. Then there's this charmer, Andy DeBroux, telling me where I should and should not express my opinions. What is it about developing software that attracts so many misogynists?

Please note that Gupta approved of this comment because of course she would.

Of course DeBroux's tweet did inspire me to write this blog post, so I hope he's happy about that.

Gupta makes clear on her Twitter account that she's not a big supporter of feminism since her devotion is to hating white women. 

I hope to god no white women have to work with Gupta or DeBroux at their software companies, that won't end well.

Gupta describes herself as a lawyer turned software developer, so I've no doubt she has more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime. And yet she seems to consider her struggles in life similar to the struggles of African Americans. She seems to believe that all forms of being non-white are equally oppressed.

Sonia Gupta really really hates white women though. I guess she figures if the computer programming career doesn't pan out, she can get a third career devoted to her resentment and hatred of white women - all the other privileged extremists can contribute to her career via Patreon.

I just hope that Gupta doesn't think she's going to parlay her hatred of white women into a lucrative career as a mainstream writer - Mikki Kendall already tried that but got stopped cold thanks to The Nation. On the other hand, it seems to be working out for Ruby Hamad. 

Fun fact - ole Sonia "I hate white women with the heat of a thousand sounds" Gupta and I have a mutual connection on Linked In - small world!

I really have a hard time believing that people like Gupta and Hamad are for real. They seem like caricatures invented by some Koch brothers-funded think tank to try to portray the social justice left as vicious and hateful and simple-minded bigots, who come from privilege but claim to be as oppressed as the decendents of 300-plus years of slavery and apartheid and abuse. 

But seriously, Gupta is obsessed with her hatred of white women.

The caricature image of "white women" as a snarling witch-type character with an exaggerated hook nose ratchets up the misogyny - and possibly anti-Semitism   an extra notch.

Must attack feminists of course.

This tweet probably explains why misogynists flock to her.

And of course can't forget to attack liberals. It's absolutely stunning how much more often these alleged social justice people attack feminists and liberals than they do conservatives.

Gupta hasn't only gotten pushback from white women though - apparently she has or at least had, at one time, white friends.

Apparently those wacky white people don't enjoy being friends with someone who constantly makes extremist, essentialist declarations about them based on their ethnicity. How does Sonia Gupta withstand such unbearable oppression?

Social Justice Warrior Rania Khalek attacks Gloria Steinem for being a white woman

Well it should be no surprise that Social Justice Warriors have decided to attack Gloria Steinem - they've already proven to support rightwing feminism-haters (and Japanese internment defenders) like Michelle Malkin over actual progressives.

Naturally this was re-tweeted by Mikki Kendall - there's nothing that Mikki Kendall hates so much as a white woman, and never misses a chance to equate the actions of a single white woman with all white women. It's always helpful to check Kendall's Twitter feed when looking for that latest SJW attacks against feminists - Kendall's pretty much a vector for hatred of feminism, or as Kendall calls it, "white feminism."

So what is it that Rania Khalek thinks is so Islamophobic about this movie? She doesn't bother to explain - but then, Social Justice Warriors don't have to explain anything - they just make assertions and their followers accept them uncritically, as fact.

Here is what the movie's web site says:

HONOR DIARIES FEATURES NINE COURAGEOUS WOMEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATES WITH CONNECTIONS TO MUSLIM-MAJORITY SOCIETIES WHO ARE ENGAGED IN A DIALOGUE ABOUT GENDER INEQUALITY. 

These women, who have witnessed firsthand the hardships women endure, are profiled in their efforts to affect change, both in their communities and beyond. 

The film gives a platform to exclusively female voices and seeks to expose the paralyzing political correctness that prevents many from identifying, understanding and addressing this international human rights disaster. Freedom of movement, the right to education, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation are some of the systematic abuses explored in depth.
Spurred by the Arab Spring, women who were once silent are starting to speak out about gender inequality and are bringing visibility to a long history of oppression. This project draws together leading women’s rights activists and provides a platform where their voices can be heard and serves as inspiration to motivate others to speak out. 

More than a movie, Honor Diaries is a movement meant to inspire viewers to learn more about issues facing women in Muslim-majority societies, and to act for change.

Now I'm the first to argue against the notion that Islam is any more innately misogynist than Christianity. Nor do I think that religion has a monopoly on misogyny. But the fact remains that there are plenty of really hideously misogynistic customs present in countries with Muslim majorities.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the movie's executive producer. Apparently Social Justice Warriors love to hate white women so much that they focus on Gloria Steinem, who has nothing directly to do with the movie, and ignore the women of color who were actually involved in making the movie.

So who is Rania Khalek? Well, like so many Social Justice Warriors she seems to have no problem getting published. According to her site:

My work has appeared at The Nation, Al Jazeera America, Truthout, Salon, AlterNet, Extra, Citizen Radio and more.

Funny how many supposedly liberal media outlets so frequently publish the work of anti-feminists like Khalek.

And naturally Khalek is a member of the too-stupid-to-get-satire brigade.

Khalek must be a member of the SJWs study group opposed to the privileging of intelligence in social discourse.

Based on her blog, Khalek doesn't actually have much interest in feminism. A search of her blog on "feminist" and "feminism" brings up six posts. Two of the posts contain the word feminism in a homicidal maniac's manifesto that Khalek posted. Another post uses the word feminist in the context of an attack on Amanda Marcotte, whom the Mikki Kendall brigade hates (in spite of Marcotte's defense of Kendall's scurrilous abortion article), second only to Lena Dunham. Another article compares the US occupation of Iraq unfavorably to Saddam Hussain's reign:

"The US-backed regime makes Saddam Hussein look like a feminist!"

In another piece she complains that the NYTimes had an editorial about rape in India, and she then proceeds to suggest that things are just as bad for women in the United States as they are in places like India - although she's too coy to come right out and say it plainly:

To the skeptics preparing to ask me whether I’d prefer to live in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan since I think the US is so awful, I wonder if you realize the level to which US foreign policy towards certain parts of the world has intensified violence against women. Backing sexist dictatorial rulers, knowingly arming religious fundamentalists who throw acid in women’s faces and forcing neoliberal economic policies that leave small farmers (most of whom are women) and their families starving; these are the policies that define the United States to many women abroad.

It's quite astounding: she manages to put the blame for the custom of throwing acid in women's faces on US foreign policy. But then, she doesn't seem to have such a big problem with the acid-in-the-face custom - she called a movie which criticizes such "honor" crimes Islamaphobic.

And then there is her piece in which she  calls the movie Zero Dark Thirty an example of "imperial feminism."

Being a Social Justice Warrior, Khalek's real issue is made clear in the Zillah Eisenstein piece she quotes:

My point: do not justify or explain US war revenge with a pretty red-head white woman with an "obsession" to catch the mastermind of 9/11.

Ah yes, it's the greatest Satan of the Social Justice Warrior enemies list - the white woman. Eisenstein mentions white women two other times in the article:

You do not drop bombs on the women you are supposedly trying to save. Do not now cleanse the wars of/on terror with the face of a white blonde female.

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I was thinking through the film - if they hate us, they do so because we are hateful. I am sad to know that this film will be seen across the globe. It will be read as another story of imperial empire with a (white) female twist. How unfair to all the people in the US who do not choose revenge and murder. How unfair to my Pakistani friends who are also US citizens. How unfair to most of us across the globe.

This is published by Al Jazeera, BTW. They've also published Sarah Kendzior's attack on Katha Pollitt, and were a big promoter of Mikki Kendall's #solidarityisforwhitewomen.

Reading the quote above, you'd assume that Eisenstein was referring to actual human beings who "justified or explained US war revenge..." 

But nobody is - or if they are Eisenstein doesn't bother to name them. Because individual actions don't matter to SJWs - we are all undifferentiated members of a class of people identified by gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc. Especially white women.

Unless, of course, you have become a SJW which gives you immunity - and then you can join the attacks against white women, even if you yourself are a white woman. Good times.

My anti-racist bona fides

I was home sick from work yesterday so I ended up wasting more time than usual arguing with people on Facebook. This time it was with Michael Kimmel over his approval of a video that tells white women to shut the fuck up. Literally:

You want to deprive white women of a voice?
Start with yourself, Emma Gray.

Kimmel has a Facebook page for the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities of which I was a member up until yesterday. I got into an argument with someone using the name of the group, so I can't be sure it was Kimmel himself, but probably, especially since someone has been checking into this blog several times in the past 36 hours, most recently from SUNY at Stony Brook.

Kimmel is clearly in league with the identitarians - I used to call them Social Justice Warriors but the term has been co-opted by the Right. An identitarian is someone who is obsessed with ethnicity - everything is about ethnicity for them, and if you dare to suggest otherwise, they will brand you a racist. That is their main weapon. That and censorship. Identitarians love to tell people to STFU mainly because they are not smart people and so the only way they can win any argument is by silencing their opponents - that's why they are so quick to tell any objectors to shut up, and to make them shut up if possible. Which is why Kimmel threw me out of his Facebook page.

I've written at length about my unpleasant experiences with identitarians, including the queen of the white woman-hating identitarians, Mikki Kendall.

Now I try to assume that people like Kimmel mean well, but in their ill-considered approach to injustice they are only perpetrating more injustice. The professional identitarian Robin DiAngelo is a case in point, as I blogged about not long ago. She decided that somebody needed to pay for the 1955 murder of Emmet Till, and so she used her authority during a company meeting to humiliate a woman by telling her she had to leave the room when she cried because white people were not allowed to cry. She did it because some woman prior to the meeting had griped about "white women's tears." 

The white woman in this case probably thought of herself as an individual human being, not as a dehumanized signifier of white women in the Southern patriarchy tradition. But Robin DiAngelo decided that she should be dehumanized - as payback for the way black people have been dehumanized.

Dehumanizing random white people as payback is not how you fix racism.

You want to talk about slave reparations? Let's talk about slave reparations - I thought Ta-Nehisi Coates made a good case for them. You want to talk about how black people have a higher arrest rate for drugs than white people even though white people deal drugs more? There's a Washington Post article with data showing this happens and it needs to be addressed. 

There are plenty of white people who are pissed off about ethnic-based injustice. It's completely idiotic to tell others they can't talk based on their ethnicity - you may be silencing an ally. It's not only unjust, it's ineffective politics.

And I am certainly an ally. As I pointed out to Kimmel, I have stood up against racism, as I discussed on this blog.

I also helped to keep professional racist Razib Khan from getting a gig at the New York Times.

I've always spoken out against racism, because racism is both evil and stupid.

But none of that matters to identitarians. Because they decided that "white feminist" means an ignoramus who has to be told everything. And according to identitarian ideology, white people do not get to speak for themselves. No matter what is said about them. You don't have a right to defend yourself, ever.

Identitarians cannot tolerate dissent. Because what identitarians are really about is not justice for all, but revenge against white people. And since women are less likely to get violent, and more likely to be apologetic than men they decided to target white women specifically. And since they are essentially an anti-liberal, reactionary bunch, white feminists especially.

And Michael Kimmel, who pretends to be interested in equality, approves this effort to silence women on the basis of their ethnicity. That should tell you something about him and his organization.

And once again I'm left wondering if people like Michael Kimmel and Emma Gray, the Executive Women's Editor of the Huffington Post are secretly working for some Koch brothers-funded organization - because identitarianism benefits conservatives more than anybody else by promoting the notion that we should all be judged on the color of our skin rather than the content of our character.

Aura Bogado, writer at The Nation, joins the Mikki Kendall hate-a-thon

Well much to my surprise it turns out that the vicious Twitter attacks of hatred against white feminists is fully supported by Aura Bogado, a writer at The Nation.

Here are Bogado's tweets in full support of Mikki Kendall's personal campaign of hatred and blame for EVERYTHING against white feminists below. So remember, if you are a white feminist and you subscribe to The Nation, they would like you to know that the real root of racism and economic injustice is not plutocrats or Republicans - the great Satan is WHITE FEMINISTS!

What's this you say? You never thought a Cherokee baby named Veronica needs saving? Too bad because you are guilty because of your gender and your ethnicity. You should be ashamed of yourself. Now shut up and allow media leaders to heap abuse and lies on you - shut up white feminists. You may not speak out in self-defense. Just take your beating like a good bitch.

1. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado13m

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you count the tenured white women faculty, and then the tenured women of color faculty at any university

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2. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado38m

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you think a Cherokee baby named Veronica needs saving

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3. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado53m

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen when your organization offers internships without pay, which means most WOC can't afford to do them

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4. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado59m

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you call yourself an investigative journalist but have to look up Ida B Wells after you see this tweet

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5. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen is thinking that the criminal justice system is not a women's issue

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6. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen is thinking that immigration is not a women's issue

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7. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen: when you book one WOC for your panel, ask her to attend at her own expense, and think we're all #winning

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8. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen is when you're sick of the hashtag for a few hours, and we're sick of your privilege for a few centuries

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9. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

   #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you stay quiet about affirmative action but went to school on a woman's lacrosse scholarship.

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10. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you fail to recognize that you live on stolen land.

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11. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

    Most anti-climatic moment of #solidarityisforwhitewomen: when you realize that almost every editor will hire a white woman to write abut it

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12. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen is when I can come up with 20 examples of how white women fail us in two hours and easily have 20 more to go.

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13. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado1h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen: @emilyslist lists women for prez; hardly WOC but Warren, Klobuchar, Sebelius listed twice http://mpotus.tumblr.com/ 

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14. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen is when you refuse to recognize that white women are the least affected by unemployment: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/economy/unemployment-lines.html …

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15. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you've heard Hannah Anderson's name 1,000 times in last two days, but still don't know who Sharon Coke is.

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16. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you tell your already underpaid immigrant nanny to teach your child Spanish--for free.

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17. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen is what happens when WOC have hardly any space in online publishing and have to take you down in 144 characters.

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18. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you love Orange is The New Black, but never bothered to pick up a copy of Assata Shakur's book.

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19. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen: when you stay up late to see how Texas voted on abortion but don't care about California's forced sterilization.

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20. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen is when you show up on @Jezebel tomorrow explaining that women of color hurt your feelings with this hashtag.

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21. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    @lsytrinna But they're ready to earn a higher wage than women of color and men of color!

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22. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you refuse to thank the civil rights movement for vastly improving the lives of white women.

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23. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you can afford to care more about organic vegetables than you do about Marissa Alexander.

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24. Robert Mitchell III ‏@RLM_33h

    #SolidarityisForWhiteWomen because feminism thrives on gatekeepers & asymmetries of knowledge, which serve to exclude women of colour.

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25. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado2h

    The irony about #solidarityisforwhitewomen is that the hastag is partly trending because it still centers on white women.

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26. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado3h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when @SenWarren claims to be Cherokee, never apologizes for it, and never has to answer for it.

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27. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado3h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when @msmagazine lauds Janet Napolitano's move the UC system; doesn't call her out for deporting 1.5 M people.

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28. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado3h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen: @emilyslist lists women for prez; hardly WOC but Warren, Klobuchar, Sebelius listed twice http://mpotus.tumblr.com/ 

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29. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado3h

    @Elle_Reezy @Blackamazon White supremacy rests on being conveniently (but willfully) ignorant.

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30. Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado3h

    #solidarityisforwhitewomen when you build career on the lowwage work of immigrant nannies whom you don't pay a living wage or offer benefits

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