While Americans attempt to process the horrific killings of five police officers in Dallas, some of the internet’s worst people — that familiar coalition of Anime Nazi trolls, white supremacist “race warriors,” and assorted fellow travelers — have taken to Twitter to spew their familiar brand of hatred and make occasional Kennedy assassination jokes.
Despite knowing virtually nothing about the attackers or their motives, members of this Coalition of the Terrible blame the attacks on everyone from FBI director James Comey to the Elders of Zion; their proposed solutions to our country’s racial divisions include violent race war and/or the election of Donald Trump.
Quite a few of these lovely people seem to think that best the solution to the sort of violence we saw in Dallas is … more violence.
https://twitter.com/rosario_sicario/status/751307210198626304
https://twitter.com/CaptainMonroe/status/751259072230416385
https://twitter.com/SuicidalAltruis/status/751382210259849216
https://twitter.com/GreatApeNiggy/status/751399444487233536
https://twitter.com/Ranch_Soda/status/751309928292184064
Quite a few think that we’re headed for some sort of vast civil war, if not an outright race war. Most of them seem perfectly fine with this.
https://twitter.com/rosario_sicario/status/751303883616448512
https://twitter.com/tomjeff5555/status/751268885874089984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
There are occasional references to “the day of the rope,” a violent day of “retribution” against white ‘race traitors” that featured in the neo-Nazi novel The Turner Diaries, a vile book that was also an inspiration to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
https://twitter.com/BohnetGage/status/751264269384060928
https://twitter.com/villainial/status/751333093324324864
Among those calling for — or at least predicting — some sort of violent race war was former Illinois congressman and talk radio host Joe Walsh:
Walsh later deleted the tweet, insisting that he wasn’t really saying what he pretty clearly was saying:
I wasn't calling for violence, against Obama or anyone. Obama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
Cries of “White Genocide” filled the air.
https://twitter.com/arierhase/status/751287573515866112
Separation is the only solution. How many more lives must be sacrificed on the bloody altar of #diversity? #Dallas #BLM #WhiteGenocide
— Trainspotter (@Trainspotter001) July 8, 2016
#Diversity means chaos & death. Whites need to mark & hold areas of our own. #Dallas #dallasprotests #WhiteGenocide
— Trainspotter (@Trainspotter001) July 8, 2016
Others dropped the alt-right’s favorite c-word: cuck.
https://twitter.com/rlgodchaux/status/751265459400347649
https://twitter.com/rlgodchaux/status/751268623356817408
Non Consumer was not the only one who used the shootings as an excuse to call people cucks:
https://twitter.com/fauXnetiX/status/751289917293076480
https://twitter.com/PreznitCamacho/status/751269662814375936
As the members of the Coalition of the Terrible see it, there is plenty of blame to go aroud. More than a few pointed their fingers at Obama for the shootings:
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/751277997542387712
Looks like Obama provoked the Chimp Out he desired. https://t.co/Yi6quD56ol
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) July 8, 2016
Obama has incited the murder of 4 Dallas police officers. He must immediately be removed from office and arrested. #Dallas
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) July 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/DaGodfather907/status/751266501240377346
At least one tweeter suggested that Obama was literally involved in planning the attack.
Barry knew this was going 2happen & helped plan it. #dallas #DallasPoliceShooting #SummerOfChaos #BLM #MAGA #DallasPolice #DallasShooting
— ❌Les Deplorable❌ (@xinemd) July 8, 2016
One ingenious tweeter figured out a way to blame FBI director James Comey:
https://twitter.com/realGenseric/status/751382706211004416
Breitbart “journalist” Milo Yiannopoulos, meanwhile, claimed with no evidence that BlackLivesMatter members were the shooters:
Black Lives Matter now gunning down police officers. Time to classify it as a terrorist organization. We need President @realDonaldTrump.
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) July 8, 2016
And went on to blame so-called “Social Justice Warriors” as well.
Race-baiting social justice warriors got the action they wanted. https://t.co/QVD97Nqdrx
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) July 8, 2016
The excitable Mike Cernovich — reactionary internet activist, fitness enthusiast, juice peddler — blamed everyone he could think of:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/751306550602412033
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/751249757637521408
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/751267552609742848
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/751267897687683073
And then he retweeted this brief report — his own — from an alternate universe:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742075606389653504
Some blamed “black culture.”
https://twitter.com/MikeRotondo86/status/751281238065815552
https://twitter.com/MikeRotondo86/status/751267312716517376
https://twitter.com/MikeRotondo86/status/751270730961031168
And others blamed Martin Luther King:
https://twitter.com/FreelanceAutist/status/751412668225949696
Unsurprisingly, quite a few alt-rightists and Anime Nazis alike managed to pin the blame on their favorite target — THE JEWS.
Jews foment race war through heir media. Dallas blood is on the hands of the Jews who invented WHITE GENOCIDE.
— Lorenz Kraus (@Lorenz_NY20) July 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/BiG_SH0T_ROB/status/751404824793608192
https://twitter.com/BiG_SH0T_ROB/status/751405896484478979
https://twitter.com/karbooj/status/751324562386628608
https://twitter.com/INFINITE1488/status/751303322070495232
https://twitter.com/N1K0LAK1/status/751285013165989893
https://twitter.com/N1K0LAK1/status/751273986328174593
https://twitter.com/Fash__McQueen/status/751281255031775232
Others hailed what they saw as good news for their boy Donald Trump:
Donald Trump just won the election.#Dallas
— Richard Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) July 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/OutTrekking/status/751287427558322176
Teenage Hitler-lover and internet sensation Evalion even managed to work in a Kennedy assassination joke.
https://twitter.com/evaIion88/status/751296497115885568
And she wasn’t the only one. Indeed, her joke seems rather mild compared to this one:
https://twitter.com/Trayvon091091/status/751396345488048128
What a comedian.
Oh, yeah, certainly not doubting their physical abilities – I certainly couldn’t lift a bodybuilder above my head and then slam them to the ground without hurting them. I’m just flabbergasted that anyone would create an industry where they’re explicitly hiring people to lose matches, and then start punishing them for doing their job. I mean, that’s the plot of Wreck-It Ralph, and that wasn’t Disney’s best film of recent memory.
(I admit, I often wonder about wrestling. Why was wrestling, of all sports, chosen to be the one where the most popular variant is the variety show one with silly costumes and characters? How come we don’t see the same phenomenon in football, or shuffleboard, or chess? How performance-centric can wrestling become before it ceases to be a sport altogether, and becomes an unusually aggressive form of ballet? And while we’re talking weird sports – what’s with cheerleaders? In order to have one sport, you have to have a troupe of acrobats performing another, rather more dangerous sport on the sidelines? It’s like if all concerts were mandated to have a lion-tamer as the warm up act. Okay, thoroughly off-topic, shutting up now.)
My understanding is that Pro Wrestling came out of the circus, carnival sideshow tradition. Promoters wantes to put on agood show more than an actual sporting event, though I think the wrestlers would sometimes take on locals.
Brilliant. Thank you Diptych.
The reason for all this hate is ‘divide and conquer’.
It’s disgusting to see how this has been used by the Trump campaign in the US and Brexit in the UK. Seeing people getting worked into a frenzy and killing each other does nothing, no it does not make ‘the world a better place’, it just makes everyone live in fear.
Why they think the world would be better under a Right Wing Authoritarian rule is a mystery to me. If there really was a Nazi takeover of the USA, do these little internet fascists think they are going to be all made into generals? They would be more likely to be put to hard labour, or lined up against the wall and shot.
And MLK was a great, very brave man. Worth more than all you Nazi douche balls put together. And he was not a Communist, although I’d be proud to claim him as one of our own. Enough using Communist as an insult already you uneducated fascist twats. Paul Robeson was a Communist.
Well, looks like David Duke is going to run for Congress again. And despite being in his 60s, he’s talking like a teenage 4chan edgelord, even going so far as to call Rep. Steve Scalise a cuck.