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.
@IP
The Westboro Baptist Church have got in on the act. Won’t bother repeating what they’re saying; you can all guess.
You’re all really nice people here and I don’t want to let the side down so I’m going to vent on Facebook for a bit.
The Westboro Baptist Church have got in on the act. Won’t bother repeating what they’re saying; you can all guess.
You’re all really nice people here and I don’t want to let the side down so I’m going to vent on Facebook for a bit.
And, of course, Alex Jones is saying it is yet another false flag operation designed to take away guns and freeze peach from true Americans.
But for some reason, this one gets to me as much as just about anything else:
Geraldo Rivera shamed the victims for not “fighting back”:
Wut.
Just. Just no. Not that it matters to your disgusting point, Geraldo, but: he had more than one weapon, you human septic tank. Also, the guys over on AR15.com seem to agree that anything over four seconds for someone who has practice reloading mags is “grandma slow” and that between three and four seconds is “starting to get slow”.
Hey, I’ve got an idea: Howsabout you and 300 of your colleagues at FOX News volunteer to stuff yourselves into a nightclub, and then “fight back” against a similarly armed and prepared shooter?
It took the police of a major U.S. city three hours and a BearCat to take the guy down, but hey, Geraldo’s here to tell us: he and his friends would have stopped him bare-handed. They’re not sissy gays, after all.
What a worthless and repulsive opinion.
@ littleknown
Trigger warning for discussion of gun violence
I teach Krav Maga. I use the official IDF syllabus.
The syllabus includes defence against:
Spot what’s missing there? And you can be pretty sure that if there was a way of defending against a gun attack then the Israelis would have a vested interest in working out what it was.
(The official advice is run if you can or hide behind something really solid and hope you aren’t spotted. It’s accepted that if you don’t have those options then you’re going to get shot)
David, a style note: You usually blot out some part of a racial slur, but you left one intact in the last batch of tweets.
Geraldo Rivera would #1 and #2 all over himself if threatened with a cap gun.