Amartya Talukdar is a Men’s Rights Activist and self-described “dedicated humanist” who’s written numerous posts for A Voice for Men — most notoriously, the explicit apologia for marital rape that I wrote about earlier this week. In that post, Talukdar declared that “marriage is a licence for sex” and lamented that if marital rape is made illegal in India, men denied sex by their wives might have to resort to masturbation, prostitution, or cheating to find sexual relief.
That’s right; he seems to think that it’s more of a crime for a woman to “force” a man to turn to masturbation than it is for that man to force sex on his unwilling wife.
Well, it turns out that Talukdar has some other, er, interesting beliefs as well. In a series of recent Tweets, he’s revealed himself to be a Holocaust denier and Hitler admirer who believes that Hillary Clinton is a “Jewess.” No, really.
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/594820003049811968
(If this Tweet vanishes, I’ve archived it here.)
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/595023179912904704
(Archived here.)
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/595025042162851840
(Archived here.)
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/592741857479786496
(Archived here.)
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/595025673867034624
(Archived here.)
He also describes Hitler — yes, THAT Hitler — as “the tallest person in history,” and he’s not talking about his physical stature.
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/593836010326216704
(Archived here.)
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/593830590828322816
(Archived here.)
He has a rather unique theory about Hillary Clinton.
https://twitter.com/a_talukdar/status/595024701614792704
(Archived here.)
In this Twitter conversation (archived here), he asks “what is wrong with fasicism [sic]” and credits Hitler with “help[ing] us in freedom movement.”
Oh, he also thinks that “same sex marriage will destroy America,” but I guess that’s not a big shock coming from a Hitler fan.
So how will AVFM respond to the news that one of their contributors is an honest-to-goodness Holocaust denier who goes around defending Hitler on Twitter? Will they denounce his foul views, cut all ties with him, and remove all of his posts from their site, as any reasonable organization would do? Or will they deflect and deny?
Somehow I suspect that it will be the latter.
At this point, I think there might be more prominent MRAs who are literally Nazis than ones who aren’t.
M, that’s not fair. I am sure they have a large non-Nazi rac(e real)ist contigent.
Hitler actually has a fair size following in India, who seem to conveniently forget about his whole genocide of non-Aryans thing.
Maybe he meant the other Hitler. You know, the tall one.
You’d think a Nazi would know how to spell “heil”.
The only surprising thing about this is how not surprised I am by this.
“Hitler actually has a fair size following in India, who seem to conveniently forget about his whole genocide of non-Aryans thing.”
Aryan has a sanskrit root, and was used originally to mean ‘indo-european’, right? Maybe they still think he meant that.
I feel like I shouldn’t be surprised by this kind of bullshit, but I always am.
My money is on AVFM claiming his Twitter was hacked
Is this person for real? Misogynist, Holocaust denier, homophobe, rape apologist. If he is also a racist, we have the whole package here. Everything he writes is terrible.
My money is on them going “It’s satire!”
My backup bet is that they will remain completely silent about it.
I have to admit I always face palm pretty hard when a POC rides the National Socialism train. That’s some pretty serious cognitive dissonance right there. Not that MRAs don’t possess that in abundance but yeah.
Ellen,
I’m guessing that most Hitler fans are racist. The world’s a weird place so I’m sure you could find one who isn’t but… not this guy.
“Aryan” means Indo-Persian. More specifically, Iranian (and some Pakistanis and Afghans, as well). Maybe that’s why some Indians have a Hitler fetish? Or maybe because he stole their sauvastika (which has been a common good luck symbol throughout Asia for much longer than it’s been associated with fascism) and turned it into a Nazi symbol? Or maybe because his weird, outdated notions of race and caste jibe well with their weird, outdated notions of race and caste? Whatever. Since the Holocaust didn’t affect them in any way, it’s not hard to see why some would deny it. (Not that THAT excuses anything. If he’s on the internet, he can damn well look up Nizkor and see his denials debunked, exhaustively.)
As for “tallest”, I think he means “greatest”. Either way, it’s rank bullshit.
I expect AVFM will insist he’s just being quoted out of context.
Return of Kings may see this and offer him a regular column, given the direction they’ve been headed in of late.
I’m with sunnysombrera — it’s a satire and the feminazis (!) don’t get it because they famously lack sense of humor. (You know, they also don’t think rape is funny, so what do you expect?)
This fella is not the only Hitler admirer in the sphere. I recall reading others praising him for his alphaness and ‘getting stuff done’ on assorted redpillian sites, most notably on The (ir)Rational Male. It fits with who they are, so I can’t say I’m surprised.
His Twitter description has him as a “humanist”. Words don’t have meaning anymore.
These guys certainly have a a very…narrow lens, when it comes to Hitler. Half of them would have been arrested, given how out spoken they are against the state.
I dunno what to say about this, from a historic perspective pre-ww2 a number of Indian nationalist joined the SS, yet Hitler modeled his occupation of USSR, in particular the Ukraine on British Military Occupation of Northern India. Hitler also had plans for the occupation of India and preform similar acts of genocide that he perpetrated in the USSR.
I do find these mens interpretation of the historic record to be very odd, unless that is they cannot research and read beyond their own shallow site.
I know they would argue that I’m incorrect and that is their right to do so, yet this level of nastiness is beyond me, that they fall into a pit of their own stupidity.
How does this man think he fits into Elams cronyist worldview, I’m shocked at their naivety, pandering to a narcissist doesn’t save you.
“where are the gas chambers”
You can literally go visit them. Of all the utterly absurd concocted “mysteries” of the holocaust, this one is…not even one, because the gas chambers still exist and can be observed first hand.
So… about Hitler and India. It’s almost understandable when you find out that Churchill starved 3 million Bangladeshi people(which was part of India at the time) in order to make it a less strategically valuable place to conquer.
When it comes to genocide in WWII, Churchill was a lot more noticeable to local politics. None of that excuses being a Nazi, but any means, but it helps shape how people of the region viewed things.
@cheerioincident
The thing about holocaust deniers is that they aren’t actually interested in answering the questions they ask. The triviality of visiting the holocaust museum, and seeing a ton of primary evidence, or reviewing the Nuremburg trials and boning up on the absolute tons of secondary evidence the allies brought with charges doesn’t interest them.
JAQing off is easy. Changing your worldview is hard.
my guess is they will sort of handwave until someone a bit less toxic shows up and then quietly usher him out of the light. It’s not that they don’t agree with what a lot of he says it’s just you can’t say “Hitler” when you are talking about them. It’s like a meeting of a right wing think tank that is to discuss the persistence of poverty in African American communities and one guy shows up in Klu Klux Klan robes. It isn’t they all aren’t on board it’s just it gives the game away.
Nazis live in a bizarre world of cognitive dissonance; both denying and celebrating the Holocaust.
According to them it didn’t happen but it was also Hitler’s finest achievment. There were no gas chambers but they’ll buy Zyklon B canisters off the internet.