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A white supremacist group faces a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a real estate broker who says she was barred from purchasing property in their rural Arkansas community because of her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.

Michelle Walker, who is also white and Christian, alleges in her complaint that the Return to the Land organization rejected her application because it “is explicitly attempting to establish an all-white community.”

“Its founders believe that white people are genetically superior to other races, advance the view that Jewish people are engaged in a plot to eliminate the white race, and advocate for segregated white communities for the purpose of creating a separate all-white nation state that will help avoid ‘white genocide,’” her complaint says.

Return to the Land did not immediately respond to the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Northern Division.

In an interview with NBC News in July, group co-founder Eric Orwoll made it clear that only white people are welcome in their 40-member community in Ravenden, Arkansas.

“What we’ve done here is establish a place where we have control over who our neighbors are,” Orwoll said. “And that is just for the sake of preserving, you know, our culture ... white American culture.”

Orwoll characterized the policy as “free association,” not segregation. On its website, Return to the Land describes itself a “private membership association (PMA) for individuals and families with traditional views and common continental ancestry.”

Walker’s attorney, Reed Colfax, argued Return to the Land is a racist organization in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws dating to 1866.

“Return to the Land’s actions constitute blatant and brazen violations of long-standing federal and state fair housing laws,” Reed Colfax said in a statement posted on the Legal Defense Fund website. “Ms. Walker has been deprived of her housing and civil rights, including the right to purchase land and build housing.”

Walker, a real estate broker in and around St. Louis, Missouri, said in the complaint that she learned last summer that the group was selling land in the Ozarks, “an area where she occasionally vacationed.” She was drawn to the listing partly because the asking price was unusually low, and she decided to apply, citing both the investment potential and other possibilities the land offered.

During the application process, Walker said, she encountered “a series of questions about her ancestry and religion.” She disclosed that her father’s family had arrived in the U.S. in the 1600s and that her mother’s family were Russian Jewish immigrants. She noted that her husband is of Irish and African descent and that her children shared their parents’ mixed racial heritage.

In response to a question about her religion, Walker stated flatly: “I am a Christian. I believe Jesus died for my sins and through believing in him, I will have a heavenly eternal life.”

In the complaint, Walker said she “was surprised to see the ancestry and religion questions on the application, which she understood as clearly violating federal and state fair housing laws prohibiting consideration of race and religion in a land-sale decision.”

Walker said she recognized the ancestry and religion questions as apparent violations of federal and state fair housing laws, but completed the application anyway, hoping the organization would ultimately comply with the law. She was later interviewed by a Return to the Land member who asked whether she belonged to “any other white nationalist organizations.”

After a month passed without word, Walker called the Return to the Land and was told “she should not expect her application to be approved.”

I grew up about 2 hours from here. Not shocked there's an attempt to create a whites' only enclave. Also not shocked a fellow Arkansan went, "Oh, I can fuck this up real good."

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

I remember trying to look up clover references, so I searched clover. Prior to the update it would have given me photography and stock images in abundance, interspersed with art, and I could further limit my field to be ONLY photography or stock images. This time around: it gave me Clover, the character from Totally Spies, specifically involved in inflation art, because that's what the algorithm decided to push at me since it wasn't massively popular and it clearly needed more attention. I couldn't narrow my search, because the references I wanted were old and thus had no keywords. Mass-uploaded photos by amateurs and professionals alike often just had numbers for a title. There was no way out. It was just me against the Clover inflation art.

they can cry it’s about ‘biological sex’ all they want but that absolutely falls apart when your actual law says it’s literally about cis people feeling “discomfort or distress” at the thought of sharing a space with a trans person even if that trans person shares the same ‘biological sex’ as they do

toxic masculinity predated the popularity of the term male loneliness epidemic, and even that was first popularly used in an article about gay men struggling with lack of touch due to men being socialized to not be affectionate. Straight men didn't come into the picture later with incels adopting it as a push to pressure women into casual sex- literally the opposite of the initial meaning (gay men have decent amounts of casual sex which does not alleviate the problem).

So based on that information the issue has existed unnamed for a long time. Depression is another term used for this problem a lot, and the decreased life expectancy from men's significantly more fatal suicide attempts (because guns and weapons are primarily chosen for gendered reasons). Based on that we can see there likely was a sharp uptick around the time of collapsing third spaces where men no longer have anywhere to go to hang out with friends, exponentially increased by difficulty having your own property (to make things like massive DND tables for gaming nights to host). Combined with increasing social media problems and that impact on mental health, it's likely that men were hit with "skin hunger" more often than women who comfortably touch other people more casually than men do. This can have psychological effects of increased mood dysregulation, anxiety, loneliness, and other mental health impacts.

I would disagree that women have it the exact same experience of this change though because women tend to deal with things like eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and sexual assault as more key issues that are worsened for their demographic in the past couple of decades. Women are likely dealing with something along the line of hypervisibility where authentic connection is difficult to find. In contrast men face some of those issues, but even when presented with the opportunity to physically touch people they tend not to do it affectionately which is what wears on the mental health a lot.

Rejecting platonic touch itself is a fairly modern issue- it coincides with increased city infrastructure development in britian and north america as well as puritan fears of homosexuality. The people who worried the most about being outed for homosexual relationships (called something else at the time) would have been upper class. Lower class people could get away with more homosexual sex acts, if they were topping. This was related to retaining masculinity. Effeminate gay bottoms were the full spectrum of "trans women" "non-binary" and "gender non-conforming man" that later got separated out by later models of gender and sexuality, so it was heavily stigmatized. So when platonic touch became associated with queerness a couple hundred years ago, it was a slow tailspin of problems for the ability of men to find platonic companionship that's considered to be psychologically important for basic human welfare i.e. close friends you can hug. (Hugs per day is actually a common metric this stuff is studied in. Men tend to be hugged by their significant other(s), mothers, and not their same gender friends or fathers- and the hugs between men are rougher, shorter, and have less physical contact.)