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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

How Black Feminists Exposed the Alt-Right Online

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2014, a mysterious hashtag started trending on Twitter: #EndFathersDay. The accounts tweeting the extremist sentiments appeared to be the accounts of black women. But black feminists on Twitter knew something was amiss. So they got to the bottom of the hashtag—and used their own to fight back. Guest: Rachelle Hampton, Slate writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Back in 2014, this hashtag began trending on Twitter.

0:25.1

Let's start out as a joke, but the hashtag End Father's Day is picking up steam with

0:32.2

feminists online and with others in social media.

0:35.6

End Father's Day.

0:37.4

The idea was, Father's Day celebrates the patriarchy.

0:40.4

So screw it.

0:41.9

Father's a useless hashtag in Father's Day.

0:45.0

Oh, come on, just use this nasty feminist rhetoric that they're not just like interested

0:49.4

in ending Father's Day, they're interesting ending men.

0:51.6

That's really what they want.

0:53.2

I remember someone bringing up and being like, remember in Father's Day?

0:56.4

And I was like, what is that?

0:59.7

Who would want that?

1:00.7

Yes, makes no sense.

1:02.7

Rachel Hampton is a writer here at Slate.

1:05.7

So can you read to me a few of the tweets that went out using the End Father's Day hashtag?

1:10.5

Yeah.

1:11.5

So, one says, Father's Day is a glorification of the patriarchy and the systematic oppression

1:17.1

of women and children.

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