Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post.
I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s pretty underwhelming. There’s a great deal of highly predictable racism, transphobia, and misogyny. There are anime-avatarred fat shamers, Anita Sarkeesian haters pitching fits, Trump fans joking about the Holocaust, and even a few Men’s Rights activists. The hashtag reeks of undeserved self-satisfaction.
The only genuinely funny or original Tweets in the hashtag come from the feminists and other so-called Social Justice Warriors who’ve crashed the party with Tweets intended to trigger the triggerers.
And yet I have somehow managed to find a few lessons in all of this. And so, without further ado, here are The Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far).
1) Fat haters don’t proofread their tweets very carefully:
https://twitter.com/FMLItSux/status/707548031994957824
https://twitter.com/DidymusTam/status/707546927395692544
2) And neither do racists:
https://twitter.com/goysheckles/status/707580339028369409
3) Blah blah blah blah blah blah vaginas
https://twitter.com/LeifLJones/status/707529181576364032
https://twitter.com/FuckTwatter001/status/707464746640007170
https://twitter.com/defunked/status/707579493955846144
4) Blah blah blah blah blah blah cucks
https://twitter.com/HuemanGarbage/status/707621864865042432
Feminism is trying to turn all straight white males into faggots, trans and cucks #TheTriggering
— MR MARMITE (@Mr_Marmite247) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/henrybrrtt/status/707424084833882112
Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico #thetriggering
— Vali-Norse God of Revenge (@footbrawler) March 9, 2016
5) There’s a weird overlap between #TheTriggering participants and dudes who almost certainly did very poorly on the analogies questions on the SAT
https://twitter.com/CreggehBroon/status/707580834627362817
6) There’s also a weird overlap between Trump supporters, castration advocates, revenge porn lovers, and haters of Marilyn Monroe. That overlap calls himself “Riv.”
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707445270091571202
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707610635513761794
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707607734406017026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707548913000128513
7) Words can’t hurt you …
#thetriggering if you are hurt by words you should not be not the Internet.
— Mordred Pendragon (@M0rdredPendrag0) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/HEWHiGHROLLER/status/707527496674189312
8) Except when they can
https://twitter.com/willieromeburns/status/707580935693213696
9) Bernie Sanders may be a slackjawed grocery-store farter
https://twitter.com/jesslutty/status/707442394699079680
10) It’s somehow unfair for the media to point out offensive tweets in a hashtag devoted to posting offensive tweets
The media will ignore the 99.99% of smart #TheTriggering tweets and write about the tiny fraction of ones that are actually racist.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 9, 2016
I imagine I will learn more lessons from #TheTriggering before the day is done.
This wasn’t part of #TheTriggering (cause I don’t have time for this shit), but the funniest thing I’ve read recently was someone who commented on Facebook, “You just spewed a load of vagina juice.” I had to laugh out loud, because it’s so STUPID and doesn’t even make sense as a misogynistic insult.
“idk if anyone noticed (or cares), but the girl in @FuckTwatter001’s profile pic is Mariya Babko, aka Masha, a famous child porn actress. similarly @TheConfused007 has pedobear in his avatar… wonder if this is just a coincidence, or is Trump popular with cp fans?”
I’ve heard of her – not her name, but in a article that talked about a man producing child porn in hotel rooms at Disney World. FuckTwatter001 is one sick fuck. Their Twitter account looks to be gone, which is good.
@kupo
I read this interview with this Robin DiAngelo and she made the point that “white people confuse safety with comfort” and I feel like when MRAs and the people who complain about “sjws” complain about safe spaces and trigger warnings they don’t get that there is a difference between encountering an opinion that makes them uncomfortable and encountering something that is trigger or makes them feel unsafe because they’re confusing safety with comfort
The fuck does this have to do with #GamerGate?