A writer from Roosh Valizadeh’s terrible Return of Kings site recently got himself into a bit of trouble at a white power convention in Tennessee.
The problem wasn’t that the writer, one Blair Naso, didn’t fit in with the motley assortment of Hitler-lovers and former National Review writers who attended the 2015 American Renaissance conference, put on by an organization that actually has won itself an official “hate group” designation from the Southern Poverty Law Center for its virulent racism and its obsessive advocacy for a white “homeland.”
No, he fit in fine, ideologically speaking. In a post for Return of Kings, Naso praised the AmRen crowd for “doing a wonderful work,” and “saying the things that others are terrified to say.”
The problem? Well, Mr. Naso got a wee bit drunk and started harassing women at a local bar. As Naso sheepishly admits in his ROK post,
On the first night, I got very drunk. If I were wise, I would have gone to bed after the speakers, but instead I went to a nearby bar with the other guys. I went around asking girls to dance, because I wanted to use the swing lessons I had taken. All of them rejected me, because no girl likes an obnoxious wasted guy.
A few young girls were being especially snarky. I knew they wouldn’t dance with me, but I decided to ruin their night anyway. I go up to them and say, “You’re fat, and I’m balding. Let’s dance.” They kept saying no, and I kept asking them, just to piss them off. One pushed me, and I pushed her back, and then the bouncer literally threw me out of the bar.
Another conference attendee, Matt Parrott of something called the “Traditionalist Youth Network,” tells a similar story of Naso’s misadventures.
Here I was at the bar … when I felt pushed by a nearby scuffle and saw the short, balding, swarthy guy [Naso] being physically thrown, black-and-white Western-style, out of the bar.
Parrott ran outside to try to cool Naso off, sitting beside him on the grass while Naso went on about “how the girl was fat and had no right to reject his advances.”
We kept him off of the property and got him back to the conference safely, then spent the next hour or so effusively apologizing for him, buying the girls drinks right and left, and promising the locals we would avenge their girl in short order.
As Parrott evidently sees it, Naso’s actions don’t necessarily reflect badly on the white race, “since the guy’s (arguably) not exactly white.”
Naso, for his part, insists that despite his “olive complexion” he has a “largely Scottish background.”
White Supremacy sure is complicated, huh?
Parrott was much more impressed with Naso’s traveling companion (and Return of Kings colleague) Matt Forney, who also attended the event. In Parrott’s estimation, Forney was the Gallant to Naso’s Goofus.
Forney thoughtfully argued his anti-feminist and male-empowering positions until he was too drunk to thoughtfully argue. Meanwhile, his fellow attendee boorishly irritated both male and female attendees alike until he was too drunk to contain his frustration about women and pushed one of the local girls at the nearby bar.
It certainly sounds like a glorious moment in the history of the white race.
In any case, Naso’s post on the conference is, he says, his swan song to the Manosphere. In a post on his own blog, he declares that
I’m quitting the Manosphere and will very likely not return, because it’s been exacerbating some personal demons in my life for the last several months, which I won’t go into detail here with a sob story.
It would seem like this is a product of the fiasco at AmRen, but that would be a wrong assumption. AmRen at the very most only moved it up by a few weeks, if even that. This has been coming for a while, and it takes more than a few dorks who live on the internet to make me quit.
Also leading to his decision: his horror at discovering evil feminists like … Lindy West.
I could have gone my whole life without being exposed to Jessica Valenti and Lindy West. We are writing against some truly vile and empty human beings on a very deep level of the soul, regardless of their actions. I think any man or woman who is exposed to mainstream feminism long enough will lose some part of himself, no matter what his reaction.
Poor fella! As Lindy’s Twitter bio asks:
WHY FAT LADY SO MEAN TO BABY MEN
Why, Lindy, why?
P.S. If any of you have any doubt that a large number of the readers of Return of Kings are completely awful Stormfront-style racist assholes, take a look at the comments on Naso’s ROK post. Yow.
Banana – The same way the Irish weren’t considered white in the US during the Potato Famine migration: It’s an arbitrary line meant to exclude from privlege.
privilege*
I hate my new phone.
I know “Black Irish” is what happened when the Spanish invaded Ireland whenever that happened.
Robert,
Maybe that’s because white southerners are often Scots-Irish? They also obviously fetishize German and Nordic people. As someone who’s got German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish and Scottish ancestry, I’m right there with you. They can stop dragging me into their bullshit. And stop throwing a gathering called Nordicfest.
And quite* noticeable
I swear to Cthulu this thing autocorrects correct words into nonsequiturs.
Not that I’m saying being embarrassed by white supremacists is a problem on the level of experiencing racism. It’s very much in the realm of white people problems.
A shanda fur die honkem.
This is the 30th anniversary photo of the founding members of the lamda lamda lamda frat (tri-lams) at Adams College.
I find it interesting how Vox and Dalrock claimed to be married. Yet you never see the wife? I know they take her on flights. Just in case they need a flotation device.
These MRAs and manosphere bloggers are the Charlie Browns of the world. They played RPGs and D & D in their parent’s basement. Then when they tried to hit on females and got rejected. Now they want to make them “pay”. It’s like the saying goes, ” the more the man talks about sex, the less he gets it”. The only woman in there life is Rosey Palms and her 5 friends.
@Proxieme “DOES require enough anesthetic to knock out a bull moose during medical procedures ”
Such a pain, I’ve often needed multiple shots just to get some dental work done.
That photo! They all look like they’re straight out of a Charles Addams cartoon.
“You’re fat, and I’m balding. Let’s dance.”
Well, someone’s got issues…
@WWTH:
Well, this:
is straight out of the Appalachian Scots-Irish playbook. “You have sullied the honor of our tribe by disrespecting its property. Let’s feud.”
Actually, isn’t this white-knighting?
@Falconer
I believe you never read or participate in a comments thread!
(I’m grossly mishandling the truth. Does that make me an MRA?)
“You’re fat and I’m balding, Let’s dance”.
It’s sounds like a pick-up line from the ” Revenge of the Nerds” movie. Those tri-lams hitting on the omega moos again.
That picture must be the 30th anniversary photo of lamda lamda lamda frat from Adams College.
“… They’ll probably No True Scotsman him…”
…well, they did say he was too brown…
These guys also fetishize (especially east) Asia and Asian societies. They seem to think East Asian countries are the closest thing to neoreactionary heavens, where feminism, diversity, PC, etc are hated. At the same time they look down on East Asia for its same lack of librulism!
So Why don’t these fucks just move to Asia already? If it’s such a heaven of the values you want. Why don’t you just move to East Asia already? Those places untainted by liberalism and tumblr?
Because, actually, they just like using what they perceive as Asia to fuel their own martyr complexes.
Not to mention yes generally East Asia can me more conservative in some aspects but it’s not the place of (implied) backwards people untainted by evil liberalism. They’re dynamic places with dynamic discourses too.
These people have fantasies where Asia and the rest of the world are static places of anti-left values rather than dynamic complex places. These fuckheads reveal through their talking points that they don’t know jack shit about anything.
They thrive on their martyr complexes. They supposedly hate “liberalism” yet think this same liberalism makes them morally superior.
This paragraph is dead on, except he accidentally wrote “Jessica Valenti”, “Lindy West” and “mainstream feminism”, instead of listing the actual members and the pseudo-philosophies that make up the bleak Manosphere.
Am I the only one who thinks that this comment is largely not-okay? Or am I being oversensitive?
@I almost swallowed the red pill
I played AD&D in my parent’s kitchen as a teen girl since our basement had an odd moldy smell. I haven’t played in in decades, but are numerous awesome adult WHTM commenters of various genders who currently play RPGs and discuss them at length in threads. It’s cool shit.
Plus, what’s wrong with masturbation?
On a more serious note, the problem with the PUA and TeRPer segment of the Manosphere is that while they tend to be bullshitters, blowhards and/or fabulists, they’re also rape apologists who recommend abusive tactics to men who often have real interactions and/or relationships with women.
@PofM
No, it’s not just you.
I am given to understand that Vin Diesel is obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons; and he’s pretty blokey. I’d have thought MRA types would see him as an epitome of the ideal male.
@brooked
Okay, good. I’m not sure that “I almost swallowed the red pill” actually coughed up that pill, given that the entire comment seems predicated on the “getting laid is the most important thing in the history of ever” paradigm that the red pillers use.
Vin Diesel’s a huge fucking nerd and it’s so awesome.
I love the finale of Freaks and Geeks where Daniel plays D&D with the nerds and turns out to be really good at it. It’s probably the only uplifting moment in the series.
Vin Diesel is the best. Did you know he recorded around a thousand different takes of “I am Groot” for Guardians because he wanted to make sure he got just the right inflection for the right context?
Wait…did I read that here? Maybe I did…
Buuut he owns his own game studio! And he was, like, the chief producer of the Chronicles of Riddick game, and that game is awesome!
Vin Diesel is pretty kickass.