Anti-abortion activists have been scrambling to sever ties with one of their own after learning Kristen Walker Hatten has oh-so-publicly adopted white nationalist views, HuffPost reports. Her fall from anti-choice grace began with New Wave Feminists, an organization Hatten herself co-founded, who gained a smidge of notoriety after getting kicked out of the 2017 Women’s March.
“She basically pulled a complete 180 from anything we had ever seen,” said Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, founder and president of New Wave Feminists and a former close friend of Hatten.
Herndon-De La Rosa said she quietly kicked Hatten out of New Wave Feminists shortly after Trump became president and scrubbed every mention of her from the website when Hatten started to become a mouthpiece for the so-called alt-right. “As far as making a statement, I didn’t want to give this toxic garbage any more of a platform or attention,” she told HuffPost.
Hatten, who styles herself a “pro-life feminist,” has been penning terrible essays about why abortion is misogyny-murder for years. Her work is mostly published by that pillar of journalistic integrity known as Live Action—the same organization behind the “Planned Parenthood sells baby parts” videos that launched a congressional investigation.
At Live Action, Hatten found a platform to flaunt her white savior syndrome, make weird sex analogies involving bowling shoes, and share her sincerely held view that abortion providers are possessed by demons. In a post about on the three Cleveland women held captive for a decade by Ariel Castro, enduring multiple rapes, pregnancies, beatings and miscarriages while living in chains, she muses that the “primitive abortions” Castro forced upon his victims could be “perhaps the most unfortunate and repulsive aspect of the kidnapping of these women.”
Yes, really.
Every so often, Hatten caught a byline at the conservative-leaning Dallas Morning News; it was there that she first publicly explained how she came to embrace Donald Trump—but not until after he’d won. Soon after, she self-identified on Twitter as both “alt-right” and “ethnonationalist,” which, as you may recall, is one of Richard Spencer’s favorite words.
It turns out even those publications have some standards.
[Lila Rose, president of Live Action], said Hatten no longer contributes to the group’s news site and “did not voice those views when she wrote for us,” but argued that abortion rights advocates are in fact the real racists.
The Dallas Morning News also told HuffPost it will no longer publish anything by Hatten in light of her views.
Once Hatten learned HuffPost was investigating her, she deleted her social media accounts and blogs hosted by Medium and Blogspot, but not before reporter Laura Bassett got lots of screenshots. Over at Patheos, Catholicism blogger Scott Eric Alt grabbed incriminating pixels two weeks earlier. They’re both worth a look, but be warned, there’s a lot of hate spewing from this woman.
Hatten’s rise to modest anti-choice blogger fame also led to gigs speaking at “pro-life” events around the country. The forced-birthers know they’ve got a hard sell on their hands. With her tales of “converting” from a liberal pro-choicer into a libertarian anti-choicer back in her early 20s, and her super-cool wrist tattoo, she was an outlier among the typically older, pearl-clutching pro-lifers that aren’t shrieking men trying to control women’s bodies.
Despite her freefall from grace, Hatten claims she’s done nothing wrong.
Hatten told HuffPost in an email that she doesn’t consider herself to be a white supremacist or even a racist.
“I admit to being racist by today’s standards, but I also think almost everyone is racist by today’s standards,” she wrote. “Is it racist to live in a majority white neighborhood? Send your kids to majority white schools? When I was a kid ‘racism’ meant hatred for another race and/or acting on that hatred. Now you’re a racist if you touch a black person’s hair because you think it’s pretty.”
WAIT.
What kind of sense of entitlement makes this woman think that she deserves to be touching random people’s heads?
Has she never been to a museum? Or learned about bodily consent?
Just because something’s pretty doesn't mean it’s meant to be touched, Kristen.
But back to Hatten and her definitely-not-racist ideology.
Hatten added that while she is proud to be white, she does not identify as a white nationalist or a white supremacist because she believes all races have a right to their own homelands.
“I do see that Europe and the US are becoming ... well, not European,” she wrote. “This concerns me not because I hate anyone, but for the same reason Japan would be concerned if the Japanese were becoming a minority in Japan. No people should be excited to become a minority in their homeland. It is contrary to human nature. I wouldn’t expect it of any race and I don’t think it should be expected of whites.”
Actually, Kristen, the United States of America is not the homeland of Europeans. It’s land the Founding Fathers stole from its natives. It’s a country they built with humans they stole from their native lands.
Speaking of Africa, let’s check in with Hatten’s hubby.
Meanwhile, Hatten’s husband, a reviewer at Guns.com who is currently deployed overseas with the U.S. military, issued a warning on Facebook “to any of you motherfuckers out in first world Facebook land” who might speak ill of his wife.
“I might be in Africa now,” he wrote, “but I’ll come home soon enough and pull your fucking heart out of your broken rib cage and eat it.”
Charming.