The alt-right celebrated Hillary Clinton’s speech yesterday on the alt-right by posting a host of memes on Twitter purporting to explain what #AltRightMeans.
So for today’s episode of Memeday, let’s look at this unique self-portrait of and by some of the worst people on planet earth.
According to them, alt-right means:
Pepe with a gun:
https://twitter.com/IndefiniteNull/status/769186449371435008
Multiple Pepes with multiple guns:
ANALYSIS: The Alt-Right Is Woke #AltRightMeans https://t.co/ulXolfSY47
— MontanaMama (@406mama) August 26, 2016
Blatant anti-Semitism:
https://twitter.com/shitbiscuit/status/769165555546910720
Blatant anti-Semitism:that is also … anti-Christianism?
#AltRightMeans Stopping deception on the innocent. #GodBlessAll pic.twitter.com/gyx2b4Vtix
— Jabari Smith (@Humanity4fourAl) August 26, 2016
Appropriating Don Draper for your crappy racist memes:
https://twitter.com/WhitePrivy/status/768666680276967424
I can only assume Fionn here never actually watched Mad Men, because Don Draper would have reacted to all this Nazi gibberish with, well, you know:
Or possibly this:
Proudly boasting of your complete lack of shame:
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversToo/status/768813527066824706
Making very clear that yes, you are the baddies:
#AltRightMeans we have started the Fire pic.twitter.com/yPGRe1kwiH
— VDARE (@vdare) August 25, 2016
Islamophobic fearmongering:
https://twitter.com/cristinalaila1/status/768845708875014144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Nazis complaining about the word “Nazi” being oppressive to Nazis:
#AltRightMeans "Nazi" pic.twitter.com/n45CktnCYO
— Kali Yuga Wolf ⚡️⚡️ (@wolfofariosophy) August 26, 2016
Nazi-splaining “white genocide.”
#AltRightMeans No more #WhiteGeNOcide! Diversity means less white people & #CHASINGDOWN the last whites! pic.twitter.com/es6NvobwCa
— Mud Bringer (@mud_bringer) August 26, 2016
#altrightmeans No more Mommy Professor pushing #Diversity to #CHASEDOWN white people 4 the cause of #WhiteGeNOcide! pic.twitter.com/FAPwUZ4oRF
— Mud Bringer (@mud_bringer) August 26, 2016
Attacking Michelle Obama for … eating?
https://twitter.com/JoeHNewYork/status/769202813603807232
Celebrating diversity, white supremacist-style:
#AltRightMeans celebrating our diversity! pic.twitter.com/UyysiNxZex
— Kali Yuga Wolf ⚡️⚡️ (@wolfofariosophy) August 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/_AltRight_/status/768816331441352704
Posting pictures of cats?
#AltRightMeans pic.twitter.com/fqQPR1P9cn
— )))Archon Xycas((( (@LordXycas) August 26, 2016
Posting pics of cats, and also some white ladies:
https://twitter.com/whitewolfgeist/status/768659904403869696
Posting more white ladies:
https://twitter.com/_Identitarian_/status/769189751609958404
https://twitter.com/emastiffs/status/769193764061454336
Weird mystical Fascist crap, plus castles:
https://twitter.com/whitewolfgeist/status/768658737095598080
Whatever is going on in this picture. Which actually looks sort of delicious.
#AltRightMeans pic.twitter.com/JlnkFxIwHN
— pointy (@chipspopandabar) August 25, 2016
BRB, joining the alt-right.
More on Hillary’s speech and the alt-right tomorrow, probably.
NOTE: In case it wasn’t obvious, that last tweet from Wolf (@boissongazeuse) with the dawgie in it is a joke; the guy who posted it is not actually a Nazi.
@Falconer
(Minor spoilers for a Justified episode ahead)
One of my favourite episodes involves a guy whose hobby is buying Hitler’s paintings, and repeatedly offers to show his collection to our hero. Our hero, unsurprisingly, judges him. Near the end of the episode, he gives in and goes to see the collection. Which is a room full of jars, each containing a pile of ash.
A propos of nothing, the collector is played by Robert Picardo (aka the Doctor in Star Trek Voyager, and stalwart of many scifi programmes since).
Nope.
Noooooooope.
I am doing the responsible thing and not looking at my Twitter. Nope. Bye! See you in a decade! Or ten!
I started off thinking these memes would be utterly horrible, but they’re feckin’ hilarious. My special favourite is the ‘Professor’: alt-righters always get the “race as a social construct” idea so spectacularly wrong. It’s Sociology 101, FFS. And as Grace already noted, that’s maths on the board behind him. Plus, those students look school-aged to me.
Also, I can’t be sure, but the pic on John Rivers’ tweet looks an awful lot like a re-labelled asdf cartoon. I don’t think that TomSka would appreciate that.
@JoeB
Then we really need conclusive proof. Before Trump continues to campaign, he needs to play in a football game (preferably something either high-impact, like a center, or high-motion, like a running back), charge up a hill on horseback, and take a fifty-mile overnight hike through a mountain range.
If not, the next time he visits Rushmore, the reanimated stone head of Teddy Roosevelt will headbutt him through the bedrock while screaming something about bull moose.
Is it just me, or does the woman in the top right of Reinhard Wolff’s montage look rather non-White? It would amuse me greatly to think he(?) hadn’t noticed he was praising the beauty of someone with non-European heritage whilst being all white-supremacisty.
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What the hell did I just read?
Ok, good, that’s a good thing to do; and the definition of the newly invented word “scientody” is noted as “accepting the current conclusions of the scientific method”…
… yes, still doing well, this is an important point (although we should be aware that it’s not like all scientific conclusions are being changed all the time in a maelstrom of flux: yes, any scientific conclusion could be revised at some later point, but most stay unaltered for a very long time and when they do get changed are expanded or adjusted slightly rather than undergoing dramatic revision)…
… ok, we don’t seem to have a definition for “scientistry” but I’m going to assume it means “the process of doing science”. Yes, that can happen – this is why we have peer review, ethics frameworks, and mandatory reporting of conflicts of interest. And why it’s important to read journal articles critically (particularly if you are the one doing the peer review!). So, ok, good to keep in mind; but since people are aware of the danger and have put these safeguards in place, in practice corruption doesn’t make it through to very many peer reviewed articles, and (given that it would require corruption on the part of a large majority of scientists) I’m pretty sure the scientific consensus is extremely rarely or never significantly influenced by corruption…
Wait, what? Where’s that definition of “scientody” again… ah, there it is. So what you*’re saying here is “the so-called scientific consensus is not based on accepting the current conclusions of the scientific method, but democracy”. The “current conclusions of the scientific method” are not the “so-called scientific consensus”? The majority of the results of a bunch of journal articles looking into a particular research question showed one thing, but the scientific community decided to put it up to a vote what their official answer to the question would be, and most of them kind of liked a different answer so that’s what they went with? And no-one said “Hang on, eminent and well-respected researchers, you’re saying the answer to this question is A, but all the research seems to indicate it’s B, what’s up with that?” What?
(I mean, I know the alt-right believe that anthropogenic global warming, for example, is some kind of conspiracy, but I thought they were claiming there’s no evidence to suggest it’s happening, or that the evidence is mixed with some studies suggesting it is and others that it isn’t – not that the majority of published studies suggest it isn’t and scientists have somehow been able to disregard this in coming to their consensus.)
*by which of course I mean Vox Day
Regarding diversity of eye color: a teacher of mine growing up was just back from a year in Iceland. She mentioned her kids had faced some discrimination for having brown eyes — which in her mind proved racism to be a bullshit construct.
The story made rather an impression upon me.
@neremanth
Reverse image search says Finnish or Ukrainian. Tho some of that is from ‘pro white’ sites claiming her, so who knows…
@neremanth: the denier’s stance is a quantum superposition of the statements: “it’s not happening” and “it’s obvious and/or natural.”
This goes for the original thing being denied, for the existence of consensus regarding the thing being denied, and in the case that you collapse the wave into the statement of acknowledgment that the thing is actually true, you see the same about whether it’s a problem.
Example: global warming isn’t happening AND is a natural cycle. 97% of papers are written agree with global warming so why even bother counting abstract, it’s obvious AND the 97% figure has been thoroughly debunked. Global warming is happening but it’s a net positive AND there’s much more important problems (which implies it’s s problem).
The same works with smoking, lead, asbestos, harassment, rape culture, …
That makes no fucking sense, purely from a linguistic viewpoint. I’m pretty sure that “e-” has never been used as a negating/opposite prefix for any English word. “A” is the letter that does that (atheist, agender, asexual, etc). Or alternatively, “un-” or “dis-” or “in/im-“. (Though in is sometimes a bastard. Damn you, inflammable!)
E- as a prefix is generally used to indicate that something is functioning or stored electronically. Email, ereaders, e-commerce, etc. So “equality” would mean “online/electronic quality” or even “futuristic quality”.
Also, I’m not sure about “e-” on its own, but I know that “em-” is generally used as a preffix meaning “to cause” (e.g. embolden). So if equality can be argued to be a corruption of “emquality”, then the word would mean “to cause quality”. (Yes this is a silly argument indeed, but it makes more sense than the “e-” is a negating prefix and therefore equality is the opposite/absence of quality!” bullshit. Pretty sure the e in equality ain’t a prefix.)
/not a etymologist or linguist
This thread reminds me of two old jokes I heard a long time back:
If the opposite of pro is con, the what’s the opposite of Progress?
(Congress).
Canadian version of that joke is that when they swapped out the bird on their dollar coins with their House of Parliment, they essentially replaced the picture of the loon with a picture of the loony bin.
I’ll see myself out….
But wait… Isn’t Trump backing of from his anti-immigrant stance?
The alt-right! When reality is just to cumbersome.
(Incidentally, Hillary Clinton was head of the state department in the administration that deported the most immigrants. Food for thought.)
I actually went out to google, to find out if there were all these different distinctions from science. There are not.
I feel sorry for the Pug in the last photo for the fact that he’s being used as an alt-right illustration, but on the other hand, he might get to eat a bunch of cold cuts.
@Axecalibur
Ah well, fair enough. Thanks for investigating!
(Btw, the moment has passed for me to say it there, but I really enjoyed your summary categorisations of Trump’s misdeeds in the Worst Things Trump’s Ever Done thread.)
The reactionary group really should start doing what freep does whenever their candidate is primed to lose and pull a million reasons of RINO. Otherwise I really don’t think they can handle the idea that an opportunity like this will probably never come again.
@Neremanth
Seconding this sentiment, that list gave me a joy purely from an “okay it’s all sorted out” sense.
RE: the “they have organizations. Why can’t we?” I recently was doing a bit about the “all lives matter.” Maybe also related to the “equality” meme with the kids standing on boxes looking over a fence.
But anyway, it’s that someone sees “black lives matter” and decides that it’s completely unfair to focus on black lives when obviously all lives matter. But BLM’s focus on black lives is meant to address an existing unfairness in how the police treat black lives. So if you respond to this with the idea that the greatest injustice that must be addressed right now is that BLM isn’t equally focused on all lives, then you’re kind of denying the existence or importance of the unfairness that BLM is meant to address.
So similar things with people very concerned about White History Month or who say they aren’t feminist, they’re egalitarian. Or the concern about having organizations. They want equal organizations but ignore the inequality that made these organizations exist in the first place.
Conspiracy Theory:
All these alt-right memes were created by the Jews to make the Alt-Right look stupid. Ditto for Donald Trump, Vox Day and all the other horrible idiots that lead the movement, they’re just Jewish double agents trying to discredit the bigots to make sure they don’t come to power again.
If you look at Hillary’s poll numbers it seems to be working. Thank God.
OT, but pretty great: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/telegram-journalist-harassment-1.3738023
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chris-Farley-Sunglasses-Flip-Shock.gif
Regarding diversity of eye color: a teacher of mine growing up was just back from a year in Iceland. She mentioned her kids had faced some discrimination for having brown eyes — which in her mind proved racism to be a bullshit construct.
My eyes are deep brown. No one has ever, that I’ve noticed, been biased against me over them, but I did once go to an optometrist in a small town in Ireland who was fascinated with how dark they are, and rather challenged by how similar the color of the iris was to the pupil. She commented on how ‘unusual’ my eyes were several times. They are the exact color, of, I think, the eyes of maybe seventy or eighty percent of the total world population. It was sort of novel to be exotic.
You’re welcome, comrade.
@Rabid Rabbit
Oh thank you Canadian newspress and managing editor to not be that guy who lets stuff like this slide, he went the extra mile and made this issue front and center, front page and all. Thank you Rabid Rabbit, that really made my night.
This is interesting and all, but I also had a productive day. We stapled 18 expired Slim Jims together into a long rope, then tried to make a miniature dachshund jump skiprope with it. The experiment was ultimately a failure, but that’s just how it is with science projects.
@Alan Well ‘street’, ‘avenue’, ‘road’, etc. all used to refer to specific things, though we pretty much ignore these distinctions now. I’m mentioning this because the other day I happened to read an article suggesting that ‘weg’ (way) originally implied a road with a steep grade, to give people using wheeled vehicles a heads-up as to what they were getting into. It was in this book, if anyone’s interested in place-name research:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Commodity-Good-Names-Margaret-Gelling/dp/1900289903
@IP:
That is clearly the most important experiment that’s been done this year. I absolutely love it.
Please tell me that you maintained a control using a normal dachshund skip-rope? Experiments need to be controlled, otherwise we learn nothing, and the dachshunds don’t get enough exercise.
@numerobis:
That’s a good point and well expressed.
I’ve always thought of that way of speaking as the Parable of the Jar, after the story wherein a man borrows a jar and is accused of breaking it. His defence is twofold: firstly it was broken when I got it, and secondly it was fine when I gave it back.
Milo was on BBC R4 the other day being interviewed by David Aaronovitch on The Briefing Room. Here’s the rundown on the show from Breitbart – obviously it’s a rather slanted description of how it went down, but it does contain a link to the actual show. http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/08/26/milo-bbcs-briefing-room-alt-right/
I know it’s a not a popular view around here, but I am a strong free speech advocate – we need speech protection because of the things we want to say about the alt-right as much as speech protection affords these liars and bozos a faux platform. It pains me that they say they’re protecting free speech even though what they’re really doing is trying to silence through bullying. They are no more advocates of liberty than I’m an advocate of drinking bleach.
Anyway, Milo was so self-contradictory and weaselly (sorry weasels!) – and dragged out the old trope about feminism being lies, etc. He both praised and scorned the section of the alt-right who study racial differences in intelligence (and gender) calling those who pursue this nerdy and sort of blamed them for all of the racism in the alt-right. Those guys are racist (while trying to deny they’re not – my ex is one of these people) but they ain’t the only ones in the alt-right. I wanted to send the link to Milo’s damnation of the race and intelligence “nerds” to my ex, but I didn’t think that would help personal matters much.
Anyway, Milo spoke such gibberish I just don’t understand how his followers can follow him and while David A tried to pin him down, I don’t think he did a great job – I think you might need special training to deal with these folk. But it’s good that this shit is getting exposed, I guess. Most people I know have never heard of Milo or the red pill or the MRA, but those I do (outside of my ex who loves this shit) are horrified.