Here’s a bit of advice for Men’s Rights redditors and MRAs in general: if you don’t want people to associate the Men’s Rights movement with hatred, you should probably not associate yourselves with hate groups.
Yesterday, a fellow called heiligenschein posted a link in the Men’s Rights subreddit to a relatively new subreddit called simply SPLC, a subreddit set up by enemies of the Southern Poverty Law Center and devoted to, as heiligenschein put it, “compiling the numerous criticisms of the [SPLC].” As he explained in a comment:
That’s a somewhat odd criticism for heiligenschein, one of the moderators of the SPLC subreddit, to make. If you look at the front page of this subreddit, you’ll discover that he and his pals are already doing a fine job of associating themselves with “neo nazi nutters” all by themselves.
If you scroll through the links, you’ll notice that Heiligenschein has posted links to several different articles from VDare.com, which the SPLC describes as an “anti-immigration hate website” which “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.” Note to MRAs: if you’re disinclined to take the word of the SPLC on anything, all you need to do to get a sense of VDare’s genteel racism is to do a search on the site for, well, the word “racism,” or “immigrant.” Or you can read VDare founder Peter Brimelow’s repulsive victim-blaming post on the “root causes” of the Sikh temple murders in Wisconsin.
Heiligenschein also links to the virulently anti-immigrant American Patrol Report and a Confederacy-loving group called the Georgia Heritage Council; a quick glance at either group’s website will reveal what sort of organizations these are. He also links to a pretty hateful site called A Voice for Men, which some of you may have heard of already.
But the connection to the racist far-right goes beyond a couple of links. The five other moderators of the r/splc subreddit – mayonesa, dvance, Octuple, salsaverde, warkin – are also the moderators of reddit’s race-obsessed “new right” subreddit. Some of the submissions in that subreddit at the moment:
18% of marriages by Chinese and Japanese Americans are to Jews. Thoughts?
The poison of multiculturalism
USA Olympic athlete waves Mex flag: propaganda-bearing parasite prole being used as an infectious agent by the master parasite class?
The not-so-fab five also moderate a smaller subreddit called “alternative right,” a dog-whistle term amongst the far right for (pseudo) intellectual racism and so-called “human biological diversity.” Some of the submissions there, all of them submitted by moderator Mayonesa:
Emo neckbeards having hategasm over pro-white flyer
“I believe Europe to be the ‘white man’s country’. If they don’t want non-whites among them, I think it’s fair.”
Diversity perversity: Behind multicultural push is effort to degrade American culture
The West has been seriously damaged by Communist successes at memetic subversion.
The five run at least two more subreddits devoted to this kind of crap.
Just so you know, MRAs, these are the sort of people you end up hanging out with once you join the SPLC anti-fan club.
Naturally, the handful of comments I found in the r/mensrights discussion on the subject pointing out that the r/splc moderators were a bunch of race-obsessed far-right extremists — see here, here, and here — all got downvotes from the regulars there.
You’re digging your own hole here, MRAs.
Kitteh’s: LOL
**giggle**
I’d say that one knows an MRA is lying when the lips are moving, but they have to read sometimes.
I think it is time to repost that get your own effing blog gif. I do not remember who made it but it is very good and excellent!
This sort of free speech means I am entitled to scream at you in your living room goes a long way to explain why so many MRAs are soooo shocked when they get arrested.
Pecunium: LOL
“I believe in free speech. But that’s just me. You are entitled to your own opinion.”
You’re an asshole, and I’d rather be playing Bach, just an opinion! (Note, my fingers are somewhere between screaming and numb thanks to Bach)
Between screaming and numb … whimpering, maybe? (Owwww.)
I love how MRAs accuse David (and feminists) of silencing MRA views, on a website that he updates daily, and we read, with quotes from MRAs.
Yeah, we can’t handle ur massiv truuf boms.
“massiv truuf boms” sounds like a cute name for cat bums and their, ah, products.
But of course, MRAs are the only ones who preach “DA TROOF”. Us feminists are just part of an NWO, Illuminati, Reptilian conspiracy to silence the men who know the truth that all men are driven solely by their loins and should never have to check themselves on anything ever.
And I know it’s probably irrelevant, but I’m still quite happy with my anarchkitty avatar.
Nothing about kitties and avatars is ever irrelevant! 🙂 I can’t make up my mind what avatar I want, so I’m having fun mucking around with ’em.
Dishonest. The SPLC admit that AVFM is not a hate site- claiming they have been misunderstood. What creeps! They are all about the money.
Mr. Ford: <a href =http://img33.glitterfy.com/12117/glitterfy2193958T831D30.gifWhen did the SPLC claim AFVM was a hate site?
To claim they did appears to be… what is the word… it’s right on the tip of my tongue… right, that’s it…
Dishonest.
I come to you to see what MRA’s are doing wrong and then I go to MRA Allies or People who are against feminism but not into that scene (I’ve found people who are openly MRA tend to be less intelligible) to see what Feminists are doing wrong.
The trend seems to be MRA’s are more likely to be histrionic about real life whereas Feminists are more likely to be histrionic about fantasy.
Wouldn’t it be great if no one was histrionic about anything?
Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t necro three year old threads to spew the same boring false equivalencies that can be found in many of the more current threads?
“Histrionic,” because you realised “Hysterical” was too much of a dog whistle?
Troll, I think it’s awesome how you validate MRAs by saying they’re upset about real things that are valid and invalidate feminists by saying we’re upset about stupid imaginary things that don’t matter.
Oh wait I actually think you’re a total shit who should step on a bunch of legos on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Why are you using “histrionic”, it sounds so awkward. Omg.
Also
http://38.media.tumblr.com/28152740d353a3a52ebc16b015b59d56/tumblr_inline_nkvfvddiUe1t9txgy.gif
“The false rape epidemic is real life, rape culture is fantasy.” #I’mNotAnMRABut
Oh no Rape Culture is real it’s just not perpetuated by fiction and BDSM enthusiasts. Also I can’t see your pic Pandapool.
Hysterical and Histrionic are two different things I fail to see how I would use them interchangeably.
Also why is Necroing bad? Aren’t these things as relevant now as them were then?
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Thatonetroll, wtf are you talking about?
Rape culture is real. It’s just not influenced by culture!
It’s 9:40 PM and the heat index is still 93f with a humidity of 75%
I’m looking forward to the impending storms, even though the heat and humidity will not be alleviated when they pass. I just hope the expected high winds don’t knock out the power. I hate that.