Some in the manosphere have been quick to label mass murderer Anders Breivik a “madman,” trying their best to pretend that his noxious misogynist ideology bears no resemblance to their own. Others, while endorsing at least some of his ideas, have distanced themselves from his actions.
As for MRA loose cannon Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c), well, I’ll just let him explain himself. In a comment on The Spearhead, which naturally earned him multiple upvotes from the assembled mob, the man with the strangely punctuated name offered this take [LINK FIXED] on the killer:
Anders Breivik sees himself as a soldier who is fighting for a worthy cause. That cause being his country. Women and leftists then make him out to be “insane” and are looking for “who is to blame”. Well they might start looking in the mirror. The most pervasive element of western civilization today is its hatred of men and all things male. There is a particularly strong hatred of fathers and husbands. I know. I used to be a father and a husband. I have never experienced hatred in my life as vehement as by women in divorce.
And then the justifications began:
It is only natural and normal that some men decide to take matters into their own hands at all the hatred spewed at them and their marginalization. Men often see that some things are worth fighting for. Men often then take action to fight for what they believe in.
Anders Breivik is not crazy. He’s as rational as the next man. He sees that his country is being destroyed. He sees that the people responsible for that destruction are the left of politics. And he would be correct. He took action to stop what he believes is the destruction of his country.
Followed by a smug told-you-so:
I have been telling women for three years now that hatred of men in general and fathers in particular is going to see men killing a lot of women and children. Well? We just saw 76.
Of course, when Nolan refers to “telling women” that angry men will erupt in violence, what he means is “offering guys on The Spearhead specific tips on how exactly to kill innocent people.”
I’m not going to repost the vile suggestions he set forth in a now notorious Spearhead comment some months back, but I will note that they included handy tips on how to efficiently kill police officers, as well as specific advice on the best ways to take out large numbers of people in “malls … girls schools, police stations, guvment buildings. Full of women and manginas.” He ended the comment with a not-terribly-convincing attempt at plausible deniability:
Do any of you here realise just how easy it is to ANY of these things? I am not recommending them or even condining them. But if a man got into the frame of mind of Sodini and was actually SMART about it. There are PLENTY of ways he could attack women and manginas and their cop protectors with NO CHANCE AT ALL OF BEING CAUGHT as long as he kept his mouth shut.
Naturally, this comment got dozens of upvotes from the Spearhead regulars.
In a followup comment on The Spearhead last night, Nolan mocked another commenter for offering words of sympathy to the “innocent victims.” That last phrase seemed to send him into a fury:
Those who were killed were not “innocent victims” in the main. Anders Breivik is as sane as the next man. …
This was an act of war and he considers himself a soldier. In different times, as in WW II, he would be called a hero.
The people he killed were the children of those who had betrayed him and his fellow norwegians. I would put forward the opinion that the political leaders are responsible for the war on men and the destruction of the families of men. What could be more “an eye for an eye” than to kill the children of those who were so willing to destroy mens families and destroy the homeland of men?
In killing children of those who are betraying men? He is sending a very clear message.
“You may think you are protected by your police and your security…..but we can find your children…and you can not protect them except by locking them into a secure area.”
He then went on to make what I think can only be called a veiled threat towards Predident Obama’s daughters; I won’t repeat it here.
Then back to the “innocent children” remark:
These “innocent victims” of whom you speak are the children of those who are criminals. And since Anders Breivik could not get to the REAL criminals he went after the children. Is that such a bad idea? Are they not legitimate targets if the primary targets can not be reached?
This also received multiple upvotes from The Spearhead crowd, and a much smaller number of downvotes. [UPDATE: The post has now started attracting downvotes, but the upvotes still outnumber them considerably.]
Yes, it is truly strange that anyone could possibly associate the MRM with violence in any way.
And MertvayaRuka, if you want to read the paper, go online. I’ve got plush toys here that need shredding.
If Breivik really cared so much about the Norwegian birth rate falling, then why did he kill Norwegian children? Seems rather counter-productive to me.
“And MertvayaRuka, if you want to read the paper, go online. I’ve got plush toys here that need shredding.”
Eh, it’s for the best anyway. I’m rubbish at training dogs. I tried to teach the dog to fetch. Now the cat brings me random objects from around the house like socks, balls of paper, milk jug rings and twist-ties.
oh cool, i was about to go back and address what marc’s distortions of lenin but i hit refresh in time to see that someone who knows the history better than i do already took care of it. and i learned something. thanks, darksidecat.
question: so i read it as basically saying that nationalism makes no sense in a capitalist system because it basically means cheering on the interests of the ruling class, but that a non-hegemonic popular nationalism is a good thing. is that a fair reading?
in your answer, bear in mind that my understanding of post-revolution behavior is mostly gleaned from asides in books on the first world war
@Marc, love him or hate him, Leninism is a pretty developed theory and you are totally missing the point of that speech and that quote
I am actually REALLY UPSET that no one responded to my Lenin/Lennon joke upthread.
Sulky zombie.
I’m just gonna go ahead and blame any bad smells from here on out on Johnny Pez …
And this is the thanks I get for letting you stay in my head?
are you sure you posted it? cause i just ctrl-f’ed lennon and that’s the first time it appears…
AHEM, Sharcules.
If Breivik really cared so much about the Norwegian birth rate falling, then why did he kill Norwegian children? Seems rather counter-productive to me.
The book The Turner Diaries describe a racial war between Whites and Non-Whites in which all Non-White are exterminated as well as all Whites which are considered as race traitors (liberals, Jews, Whites in love with a Non-White). Most White people die in the novel. I’m sure Breivik must have heard about it because what he describe in his videos look like The Turner Diaries.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/07/24/jonathan-kay-on-breiviks-norwegian-massacre-and-the-turner-diaries-how-a-2011-crime-was-plucked-straight-from-a-1978-novel/
oh. fucking duh. sorry.
Must now go walk dogs. Farewell, all.
If useful and necessary change doesn’t come peacefully, through due process and thoughtful reflection, violent and destructive change becomes inevitable. This observation is certainly apposite to the tragedy of Norway, and perhaps indispensible in explaining–NOT EXCUSING–Anders Brevik’s ghastly and unspeakable actions.
Not only in Norway, but in countries thoughout Europe, runaway immigration of violence-prone, dysfunctional, and largely unemployable (Moslem) populations has been a fact of life. Countless Europeans have tried to have the issue addressed, through their governments parliaments, through the Press and the Churches, through the internet, etc. They have done everything possible to resolve the issues humanely and lawfully, and have for their pains, been marginalized as “racists”, as “far-right extremists”, as so-called “xenophobes”, and other terms of endearment by governments, corporations, and media who obviously favor the foreigners over home-grown taxpayers and citizens. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that many White Christian predecessors of Mr. Brevik attempted every peaceable, responsible nonviolent means to get their point across–We live here too!!–within the law possible before a European patriot finally snapped, gave vent to the worst impulses within himself, and inflicted appalling tragedy on a country whose government in these matters, could be called irresponsible at best, and, given their attitudes toward traditonal European and Christian values, a co-conspirator in Brevik’s atrocities at worst!!
Runaway Islamic immigration into Europe must be STOPPED NOW! Firmly thought out, well considered and firmly executed policies must be put in place to rid not only Norway, but other European lands of people who are implacably hostile, who are largely unassimilable, largely ineducable–in European school systems–and contribute grossly disproportionately to the already out-of-control dysfunctionality of too much of Norwegian–and European society! If the corrupt and irresponsible zoo of Tories and Laborites, Social Democrats and Christian Democrats, greens and reds can’t do it, then let REAL paleoconservatives, Nationalists or even libertarians (if they have the will and sense of direction) have a go at it! Same thing for the USSA (or what is left of us)! Let the deaths and maimings caused by this deeply flawed individual NOT be in vain! Deal with the growing problems of importing third-world people here by the millions intelligently and rigorously,even sternly where necessary, or else murderers like Brevik will do it for us tomorrow!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller
@no more mr nice guy:
“The book The Turner Diaries describe a racial war between Whites and Non-Whites in which all Non-White are exterminated as well as all Whites which are considered as race traitors (liberals, Jews, Whites in love with a Non-White). Most White people die in the novel. I’m sure Breivik must have heard about it because what he describe in his videos look like The Turner Diaries.”
Well, the idea of “race traitors” is older than The Turner Diaries but that is the best example of the idea taken to its conclusion (notice I don’t say “logical conclusion” there). As far as boneheads are concerned, anyone who has friendships or especially romantic relationships with non-whites is irrevocably contaminated by the contact and only fit to be exterminated. it’s a common theme in white supremacist literature and art (and I use “literature” and “art” very loosely since none of the brain droppings they produce can truly be considered either). Their view of a “pure” nation involves creating mountains of bodies and that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Shorter David K.: I’m a racist.
Can’t these guys just all “go their own way”???
I keep hearing them “threaten” us with MGTOW but I’ve yet to hear a specific date and time.
We’re waiting.
Now shoo.
David, you promise neither peace nor freedom but oceans of blood. Your attempts to paint entire ethnic populations as inherently “violence-prone, dysfunctional, and largely unemployable” are nothing more than white supremacist rhetoric dressed up in seemingly-rational language. This “deeply-flawed individual” as you put it is the unavoidable and likely intentional product of of this rhetoric. We realize that you’re counting on inciting more people like Breivik who aren’t wrapped too tight, you don’t regret what he did or why he did it, all this is just an attempt to create plausible deniability. Your problem is that no matter what pretty words you couch this stuff in, your sympathy for his motives and his actions keeps bleeding through.
That’s been my question since I learned about this movement. When does talk become action? When do they just fucking GO?
They’re not going because they think we are the ones who should be gone or at the very least, silent and not troubling them anymore.
Besides, where would they go? How would they survive in a place that was all ready matching their desires? They would be outsiders, foreigners, and quickly find themselves at the mercy of exactly the kind of State they claim they desire.
yo dkm, i get that the peace and freedom thing is just a thing you shart out without thinking about what it means because you’re trying your damnedest to be the intellectually face of white male bully-cowards, but do you think maybe, just maybe, it sounds stupid attached to an apologia for terrorism. these are things you should maybe pay more attention to.
“If useful and necessary change doesn’t come peacefully, through due process and thoughtful reflection, violent and destructive change becomes inevitable. This observation is certainly apposite to the tragedy of Norway, and perhaps indispensible in explaining–NOT EXCUSING–Anders Brevik’s ghastly and unspeakable actions.”
Once again, “nice country you got there…”
Also, I love how these people all, consistently, over and over again, miss the fact that immigration has been happening for millenia. How many immigration waves has the US had? Italians, Russians, Irish, German, at least. And every single goddamn time there are people shouting about how this new, alien culture will ruin us all.
PEACE! = the peace of every non-white, non-male individual being forced into rigidly defined, subservient roles.
FREEDOM! = the freedom of white males to enjoy the fruits of others labors, the best of others’ production, and the satisfaction of knowing that the white male can avail themselves of lesser beings at a whim…..
It’s called Traditional Values.
@bhacssylan:
“Once again, “nice country you got there…””
That’s the undercurrent of threat that runs through all of the responses from the right: “Either you stop what’s going on and what you’re doing that we don’t like or we’re going to make sure bad things happen. It could be you or someone you care about. So get with the program or else.”
When does talk become action? When do they just fucking GO?
right after all those fucking John Galt financial assholes go.
Otherwise known as “just before never ever.”