Fictionarious
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That is to say, then, that there *is* no "feminist in-fighting." There is only ever feminist critique of non-feminist ways of thinking on the one hand, and, on the other, non-feminist critique of feminist ways of thinking. To frame it as "in-fighting" is to obscure the influence of external non-feminist forces within women, or groups of women, who may call themselves feminists; which is to say that non-feminist critiques are allowed a double voice, both from outsiders themselves and from those "within" the movement, for a net patriarchal effect, since feminist critiques are *only* made from within.
The call, then, to "support all feminists" is itself non-feminist, if by "support" one means to censor feminist critique of non-feminist elements in the thinking of women, or groups of women, who call themselves feminists.
This has got to be one of the most explicit and ironic instances of the No True Scotsman fallacy that I have ever witnessed.