Most Americans, it seems safe to say, look upon the murderous hate crime that left 50 dead in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando with a mixture of horror and sadness.
But for many of the proud bigots in America’s burgeoning alt-right movement, the attack has been a great opportunity.
An opportunity to spread their racist and Islamophobic views. An opportunity to boost their chosen presidential hopeful, Donald Trump.
And for some, an opportunity to make crude homophobic jokes about the victims of the shooting.
Alt-rightists often complain about being “silenced” by the evil forces of political correctness. But on Twitter today the alt-right has been anything but silent.
I spent a few hours today sorting through the Tweets of assorted alt-rightists and fellow travellers. Here’s what they are saying.
The odious racist troll Matt Forney, whom I wrote about only yesterday, set aside his homophobic trolling of Gawker staffers in order to attack Muslims and, for some reason, African-Americans:
He also managed to work in a rape joke to boot:
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/742056311395864576
Noted internet narcissist Mike Cernovich babbled ponderously about the need to “get hard,” buy guns, and “take our country back.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742070554287542272
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742071693540261889
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742074087170805762
Amazingly, he has somehow managed to convince himself that Trump fans are the real victims here.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742065701578498048
Even more bizarrely, he accused the media … of trying to make the “story go away fast.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/742054734744457216
Yeah, except for the live coverage on the cable news channels and the literally thousands of news stories on the massacre.
White nationalist Youtuber RAMZPAUL didn’t even bother to rein in his homophobia while using what he derisively called the Orlando “homocaust” as an excuse to attack Muslims and pimp for nationalism.
I predicted Muslims would slaughter your precious degenerates. And you called me a bigot. Yet, I was right again. https://t.co/0Cw0dDISxl
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) June 12, 2016
Poor SJWs. Who will they support? Homos or Muslims? Or will they blame this slaughter on "White Privilege?"
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) June 12, 2016
The next step is to determine the people and groups responsible for advocating mass non-White immigration into Europe and America.
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) June 12, 2016
Snakes act like snakes. It is their nature. The question is who threw these snakes into our homes? https://t.co/tmSFnNEGkl
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) June 12, 2016
Nationalism is the answer. Omar never belonged in this country. https://t.co/Ov5h6PBZ33
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) June 12, 2016
Despite being born here.
AdolfJoeBiden, an influential alt-right Twitterer with more than 34,000 followers, seemed to think that the massacre might turn out to be a … good thing.
https://twitter.com/Bidenshairplugs/status/741989013259583488
But nonetheless found a way to blame the whole thing on … the Jews.
https://twitter.com/Bidenshairplugs/status/741975574835564544
This Trump fan seems to think the only solution is to torture people who had nothing to do with it:
https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/742053485374361600
https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/742054101559607296
Lyz would even torture Omar Mateen’s ex-wife — who left him after a brief marriage because, she says, he was abusive to her.
https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/742064945043374081
By this logic, the FBI should storm Orlando’s hospitals to torture all of Mateen’s victims being treated in them.
More than a few of these repugnant sh*tposters ook the opportunity to attack gay people.
https://twitter.com/StrThry/status/742013907141722114
https://twitter.com/dissidentusa/status/742046487346040832
Others made homophobic jokes:
https://twitter.com/rabite/status/741975713264357376
https://twitter.com/StrThry/status/742033133374050304
https://twitter.com/cuckservative/status/742009801895350272
https://twitter.com/cuckservative/status/741983083432288256
Others posted incoherent nonsense about the Jews:
I love tweeting about politics and world events! Go #Trump! Ps: Gas the kikes! Make the holohoax real! And don't #PrayForOrlando faggots!
— Trialsfan420 (@Trialsfan420) June 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/baronvonjewham1/status/741993064290521088
https://twitter.com/VictoriaAutM0rs/status/742106900704137217
Yet many alt-righters and fellow travellers have convinced themselves that they’re somehow the real victims.
https://twitter.com/dissidentusa/status/742086024302579712
https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/742020814413910016
The #WhiteGenocide crowd was out in force:
#Orlando #AntiWhite #traitors infest our White #race & are destroying us from within "Diversity"= #WhiteGenocide pic.twitter.com/eEKt1Diuai
— RainbowCh1ldren (@RainbowCh1ldren) June 12, 2016
Orlando Experts say mass immigration and forced integration policies mean a future without Whites #WhiteGenocide pic.twitter.com/eaL92a0Ddu
— RainbowCh1ldren (@RainbowCh1ldren) June 12, 2016
#Orlando – The people who rule us aren't pro-gay or pro-trans. They want more Muslims in the west. They are #antiwhite. #WhiteGenocide
— ProWhitesUnite (@prowhitesunite) June 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/Aaron_Kasparov/status/742100423507476481
https://twitter.com/realGenseric/status/742080539855720448
As were the “how’s that diversity working out for you” idiots:
https://twitter.com/hateful_heretic/status/742034969732612096
https://twitter.com/voxday/status/742037428794470400
They all pretty much see mass deportations as the answer:
https://twitter.com/hautedamn/status/742005533436088320
https://twitter.com/dissidentusa/status/742025881388994560
it should be more obvious to the lefties than ever #removekebab
— worlds most dangerous game (@stillatlarge) June 12, 2016
Some even threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee with deportation or worse:
https://twitter.com/WarOWhites/status/742103084915134464
@AnnCoulter Deport Hillary to Syria and that is where she belongs.
— Matt_Frisco (@Matt_frisco) June 12, 2016
Some mixed-and-matched assorted bigotries with wild abandon:
And then there is this lovely individual:
Just a reminder: These are all people who think of themselves as representing the finest flower of the noble civilization that needs to be protected from the darker-skinned people of the world.
@becasuescience Betcha someone on the alt-right *will* catch wind of this and express regret that it wasn’t successful. 😛
This whole thing is horrible. Right now on reddit r/the_donald is all over the front page. Nothing has to do with the shooting or the people affected, everything has to do with racism and them proving “they where right”. I really wanna delete my reddit account right now. I don’t get how that subreddit wins from these horrible news, but they managed to make it about them and their beliefs. Oh, and as a bonus, at least three Milo tweets also managed to get front page. This just sucks.
You know what, I needed brain bleach earlier, so I went on my tumblr dash.
And then this fell into my lap:
http://65.media.tumblr.com/384b3674853f2605c7cafb8797b7471c/tumblr_o8n2gwt5Oy1ql2ugeo1_1280.jpg
What. The. Fuck.
Hello, I guess I’ll make a short intro here, seeing as I haven’t done so before. I made a couple of posts a few months ago.
I’m Australian, living in Sydney. Note sure what else is relevant. I have a cat, fluffy black girl named Frankenstein, Franky for short. I wish I knew how to set an avatar here . . . .
I love reading this site, though I hate the subject matter. And this one here today is more depressing than usual.
I noticed a few of the tweeters had )))around((( their names. Is this new thing so awful horrible people can find was other? As in the opposite of that (((Jewish name))) thing?
Maybe I am making a blanket statement here, but I really see little difference between fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Islam, and the extreme right wing. A common set of reactionary political beliefs drives terrorism in America and Europe, whether the terrorist is white or Middle Eastern.
Carefully taught is the correct word. Big businesses and capitalist politicians have been steering American thought more and more to the right gradually over the decades. And the alt right is a form of indoctrination of its own, made of people who think they’re being edgy and freethinking when they use the same rhetoric as the big businesses and mainstream right wing. The only difference I see between the mainstream right wing and the alt right is their religion. Their vengeful and oppressive doctrines are similar at heart.
I thought we feminists were the hypocritical ones who defended female rapists when convenient. I guess not.
I just don’t get it. To talk directly to the things tweeted up there. I cannot grasp what mentality or thought process or whatever people like this do where the actions of some extend out to the whole of who those some “belong” to, I guess is the word I’ll use. I’ve known people of all races, many genders, and all sorts of other things, and, as a result, I’ve known assholes in most of those groups, but when I meet another person who would be considered in that group, I’ve never associated those behaviors just on that detail alone. I can’t bridge the two points of “person A is an X and also a Y” and “person B is also an X, and therefore must be Y.” How does that happen?
To talk about the incident itself, I guess I’ll write some letters, donate some money. I don’t know. I’m having a hard time feeling. It’s like my brain has shut my emotions down so I remain functional. Or maybe that’s bullshit and I just don’t know how to feel or something.
Also @paradoxical, that is one of the most bizarre and disgusting things I’ve seen in recent memory. I am disturbed to know that while having a good time with my brother playing a game, I may be playing it with people like that. I mean, fuck. I don’t understand how someone thinks that way, writes it all down, checks to see what it says, and sends it, and no step in the process gives them any pause for thought about what it is they’re actually doing.
I’m reminded of a quote I once read on a political forum I frequent.
‘If you can’t convince a fascist, do the world a favour and acquaint his head with the pavement.’
Not that I’m advocating violence, it’s just that that quote brings my spirits up whenever people say disgusting shit like this.
You just know that “Dissident (sodomy is revolting) USA” is whining elsewhere online about how women are manipulative sluts because they won’t let him fuck them in the ass on the first date.
Leave it to the alt-right f**k-trumpets to take a tragedy and somehow make it even worse.
This is so awful and even worse in that I’ve heard a lot of it echoed by people I would not have considered alt right.
Have some pride puppies because I know I need cheering.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=gay+pride+puppies&rlz=1CDGOYI_enIE691IE691&hl=en-GB&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO06yq1KTNAhXEI8AKHRfxA9AQ_AUICCgB&biw=320&bih=492#imgrc=O0AhJPwY2pQ96M%3A
Sorry I don’t know how to embed images but that link is to two rottie pups holding little pride flags
Oooh, the frog as Hitler! So effin’ adorbs!
Some of the alt-right try to frighten us with guns and such. Those alt-righters are genuinely scary. I’ll let the law deal with them.
And then there are the ones that show off pics of Hitler and use violent language.
I can use language too. I like to remind those alt-righters that the world united against their bro Adolf. He suffered an ignominious defeat and died a coward’s death. All those powerful old-school Nazis? All dead now. Dead, dead, dead. And their dying wasn’t pretty.
@PI
It sounds to me like Alex is a really lonely guy who hasn’t the faintest idea how to get along with other people.
So he tries to frighten and insult others. He seems to think that getting a rise out of others is preferable to no human contact at all.
I prescribe ten years of charm school for Alex and his ilk. That’s 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. of hard labor at charm. On weekends, they’ll practice their charm on strangers and their families alike. Their progress reports are due at 9 a.m. every Monday morning. Then it’s back to the grind of Theories of Charm 101, The Importance of Smiling, 222, How to Be a Charming Tourist 315, Charm in Fiction 400, The Charming Leader 511, and so on.
Well what would you expect from people who are proud of a country that was founded on genocide and slavery? They’re scared of immigration because they think they’ll suffer the same fate as Native Americans.
Most times, when things like this happen, I can get just enough emotional distance to manage – because work doesn’t generally approve of people having “Fuck this shit, I’m going to Narnia” moments. But the sight of people falling over each other in actual glee in response to this fucking awfulness is making me ill.
@ej, our very own PM here in Aust. also managed to use the Orlando killings to praise our border protection policy (!!!), without once mentioning the slightly significant fact that this was a crime against the queer community. He corrected himself in a later press statement after substantial public outcry. FFS.
Take good care, everyone. David, thanks much for the posts.
@fruitloopsy
I can’t believe the hypocracy here. Aren’t JudgyBitch’s beliefs exactly the same as that Alison Rapp character who the Gamergater’s got sacked from Nintendo for paedophile apologia?!! So it’s ok if Janet says it because she’s a femMra, but when Alison says it she’s a feminazi cultural Marxist SJW?!
Of course, neither of them are right, there is no excuse for adults preying on children, but they like to make themselves feel good by saying the kids enjoy it and they’re doing nothing wrong. Basic wish fulfilment.
Linked for catharsis: https://youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI
@Cupcakes
No. Not at all. Even remotely. Entirely dissimilar. In some ways, kinda the opposite. But, like, if you can’t read and have a personal hatred for Alison? Then yes. Pretty much identical. Otherwise, just naw
ETA: just some advice, if #FuckFaces says something, you might wanna be extra skeptical
That was one concentrated dose of vomit-inducing awfulness.
Hey, mainstream media: any chance you want to cover this, and put it on the airwaves of a major news network, where the average American can see who makes up Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters?
What’s that? It’s not newsworthy, and worthy of an in-depth investigation: that it’s not just the random David Duke, but rather literally every Neo-Nazi and white supremacist in the country, who absolutely worship the ground the man walks on, and explode with glee when something like this happens?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Well, it just comes to show, JB and the rest of those hypocritical Misogynist Rapey Assassins don’t care about men and boys at all. They only want women/girls and minorities to suffer and put white men on top.
PI
That’s awful, she should post that on the Fat, ugly, sl*tty site where they post disgusting messages from the games they play.
@C4H
Why are you parroting GG talking points about Alison Rapp?
@kupo
Alison Rapp is clearly an Illuminati lizard person.
If there’s anyone who deserves to be deported, it’s these bigots. Preferably to one of those islands you wrote an earlier article about.