“This is white people finally being fed up with this s**t,” she said. Her eyes are an arresting blue, and her hair cascades around her face in effortless waves. “And the fact that we have brown people trying to take away white people’s rights in a white country, when we have the Constitution and freedom of speech, and they come from their s**t countries where you can be locked up for hate speech — this is just disgusting.”
“This is white country for white people.”
These aren’t expletives hurled at teenagers in the South trying to integrate schools in 1957. This is the internet, circa last week. The young woman is the mother of a small child. She was sent to private school by her parents, even homeschooled for a time. Grew up riding horses, she says. Hundreds of thousands of people follow her on social media.
She deserves no additional notoriety, and she’ll get none here. This is about more than a single woman. It’s about an entire ecosystem that rewards her behavior.
I’ll call her Mallory.
Mallory has been welcomed on shows with millions of viewers, hosted amicably by pundits whose names you would recognize. “You make some good points,” one said, smiling. “I’m eager to hear more from you.”
She is invited to political conferences. She claims her rise in popularity is because she’s “relatable.” She drops the N-word unapologetically and posts thirst trap images of herself with the caption: “White pride.”
And now, Mallory