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With Donald Trump flailing in the wake of his disastrous debate performance Monday, his Alt-Right superfans are turning on each other.
Hitlerphile Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer has launched what’s he’s calling “a Holy Crusade” against the most famous fanboy of the Alt-Right, Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, whom Anglin considers a “kike infiltrator and co-opter” of the Alt-Right and “the single greatest threat our movement has at this time.”
Milo is half-Jewish, you see.
Anglin’s “Final Solution to the Milo Problem,” as he so charmingly puts it, involves sending The Daily Stormer’s real-world troll army, such as it is, to confront Milo at his public appearances on college campuses. He’s also urging all true Alt-Rightists to boycott Breitbart unless it fires Milo (which is not going to happen).
The aim of the boycott is to deprive Breitbart of the “significant portion of their traffic” that comes from Alt-Rightists. The aim of the campus confrontations is to put Milo on the defensive by asking him questions he’d rather not answer. And, not incidentally, to scare the hell out of him.
“He will … be in a state of constant fear when he knows that real Nazis are going to show-up at every show and confront him,” Anglin wrote. “[T]here is nowhere to run.”
While Milo himself has yet to publicly respond to Anglin’s “crusade,” as far as I know, everybody’s favorite racist fantasy author Theodore “Vox Day” Beale has launched a counterattack of sorts, denouncing Anglin and his allies as #AltRetards, a teensy tiny group of confused malcontents who are no more than “the flea on the tip of the tail” of the true Alt Right.
“Neither Milo nor I,” Beale writes in a post on his Vox Popoli blog today,
want anything to do with them, their finger-painting, or their swastika panties. The Alt-Retard is the idiot branch of the Alt-White, which unfortunately does make them part of the Alt-Right despite their ideological incoherency, but then, every village needs its idiot.
As best as I can tell from Beale’s post today, his master plan to defeat the “Alt Retards” is … to call them “Alt Retards.”
“They want to babble about branding,” he declares, “well, they’ve just been branded.”
The enmity between Milo and the Daily Stormer isn’t new. Milo fired the first shot in the war in March when he and fellow Breitbarter Allum Bokhari wrote a 5000 word apologia for the Alt Right that, as I put it at the time, “celebrated the can-do spirit of the proudly racist and anti-Semitic alt-right and tried … to pretend that the virulently racist movement’s virulent racism was all a big goof.” All those angry dudes endlessly shitposting about “kebabs” and “dindus?” Just lovable scamps trying to get a rise out of the world’s grouchy Guses.
Just as the kids of the 60s shocked their parents with promiscuity, long hair and rock’n’roll, so too do the alt-right’s young meme brigades shock older generations with outrageous caricatures, from the Jewish “Shlomo Shekelburg” to “Remove Kebab,” an internet in-joke about the Bosnian genocide. …
Are they actually bigots? No more than death metal devotees in the 80s were actually Satanists. For them, it’s simply a means to fluster their grandparents.
Oh sure, the two admitted, there are some real Nazis in the Alt Right, but
there’s just not very many of them, no-one really likes them, and they’re unlikely to achieve anything significant in the alt-right.
To Anglin, them’s fightin’ words. He replied with a blunt tirade denouncing Milo as a “homosexualist half-Jew” and warning his readers that
Any attempt to downplay the Jew role in the destruction of Western civilization should be looked at as subversion.
This Breitbart article is the first large-scale attempt to co-opt the movement and remove the Jews. … Probably, they’ve been awarded this task by other Jews.
The Jews have their schemes.
But we also have schemes.
Anglin and his fans do indeed.
UPDATE: Breitbart says that a Milo event has been cancelled due to death threats. It’s not clear if they’re related to The Daily Stormer’s “crusade” or not.
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Sorry to comment so much. I’m trying to avoid practicing my stuff for school.
Part of my concern for Milo is just concern because he’s a person, and I don’t think even terrible people deserve violent assault; but part of it is because I feel like every act of anti-semitic violence is calibrated to make other Jewish people feel unsafe. Like, if Andrea Hardie was attacked by a violent misogynist, that would make me feel more anxious as I went about my day-to-day. I don’t know if that makes sense at all.
@Viscaria
Makes total sense to me.
I’m with Viscaria. He’s a person, however horrible. I don’t want to see anyone hurt by these assholes, not even him, and no good would come of it. I would, however, be entirely unsurprised if something did happen to him.
Don’t think I could force myself not to care.
@Nequam
I can’t disagree with that! And my cynical little shriveled up heart should not feel anything about this except maybe glee, which is why I’m blaming it on my med change. Historically I have a hard time feeling compassion for people (never had a problem feeling it for animals) and that’s been changing over the past ~10 years or so, but in the past couple of months this feeling things for people has really accelerated into uncomfortable territory. My doctor claims normal people feel this kind of shit all the time, and I don’t know how y’all stand it.
So I’m imagining some outcomes here? that make me feel really sorry for anyone on the business end of it, even Milo? and that’s just how it is.
I’d also like to think he won’t be hurt, I don’t want to wish pain on anyone. Even ones who like wishing, and causing, pain for others.
@PoM, I hope it becomes more comfortable for you soon, or at the least eases into an area that’s more comfortable for you! Meds do very funny things.
*sighs* I have never seen a more sad group of people than the alt right. Sweat shop workers in India have ten times the dignity they do despite their horrible conditions. Most alt right goofs live relatively privileged lives, even by first world standards (not being shot dead because of their race by police etc.), but they are such miserable people.
@Viscaria, I feel a little bit sorry for Milo. Yes, he’s an asshole who bred a vermin audience, reaping what he planted, but racist intimidation is horrible no matter who faces it. And, as you said, the intent is to terrify other Jews into silence.
Making racist memes does not make you a counterculture rebel. The alt right’s young, as Milo puts it, are defending centuries-old institutions like racism. It’s similar to how a Buzzfeed article foolishly called 4chan a counterculture, and those same 4channers defended things like gentrification. One of them even called black people moving into his affluent suburb “ethnic cleansing”. (And 4chan and other alt right factions defend policy brutality against nonwhites too.)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-forces-of-the-internet-became-a-countercult?utm_term=.iyngzAPyw#.xqByAxWDa
So… let me get this straight. The alt right are counterculture rebels, yet support giant corporations destroying small businesses and displacing poor folk, the government’s police force, and segregating nonwhites into poor neighborhoods. Hardly anyone could get more pro-institution than that.
I agree totally…both of them are heat-seeking attention troll missiles, but I really don’t want them to be physically attacked; I just want them both to hop on the Clue Bus.
Honestly… that’s not a bad assessment of a large chunk of the Alt-right “edgelords”. Except that they’re often adults who were trapped in an adolescent mindset, which is the only way to explain a 30-year-old who goes around calling people “cuck.”
I too hope Milo doesn’t get hurt; I have no idea how much of an “army” the Daily Stormer army is.
But I certainly enjoy seeing the infighting and insults.
Isn’t Milo already facing tense confrontations with certain student groups at the campuses he visits? I seem to recall that his talk at DePaul University in May was cut short when activists stormed the stage and took his microphone. Milo left and posted a whole raft of articles about how he’d been censored and safe spaces and what not. And while I don’t think those students were right in their actions (if the college invited him to speak, let him speak – it only shows how terrible he is) I would also be incredibly pissed if my alma mater invited Yiannopoulos to a speaking engagement.
Assuming any Alt-Rightists can be bothered to turn up to Milo’s events, it seems to me like they’re more likely to clash with the liberal students Yiannopoulous is eager to offend rather than the real Milo. (Who, for the past few months, has been traveling with a personal trainer/bodyguard.)
The header picture made me think of this. I spent my childhood throwing food at bears who, unbeknownst to me, were actually reskinned Nazis.
While I don’t want anyone hurt, do want them to self destruct somehow.
Maybe a nationwide series of protests on election day where none of them actually vote?
It’s likely stale now, but @Scildfreja? I’ll take the popcorn.
Milo certainly isn’t coming to my campus, but if he was and I was able to tell him something, it’d probably be something like this:
“Excuse me…I couldn’t help but notice who you were. I am going to tell a truth to you that I hope we both know equally well: You have done many things to make the lives of many people worse. With your words, which incited actions, which incited displays of hate. One could consider you a bad person. At the same time, I am aware of numerous threats to your being. I suppose it was inevitable, but…I do honestly hope that not a one of them actually manages to lay harm to you or those you love. But hey. I’m just a liberal, AFAB, feminist, pansexual, autistic college student with short hair. You don’t have to remember that I said that.”
Honestly, I believe this is probably just another “fight” to drum up some relevancy.
Everything they say is the equivalent of a toddler having a meltdown for attention. I doubt this is any sort of exception.
@Troubelle
If you don’t mind me asking, how does one say “AFAB” (or indeed “AMAB”) out loud? I’ve only ever come across it in text. Is it meant to be spelled out, pronounced phonetically, something else? Just curious… 🙂
Not speaking for Troubelle, but I pronounce it “assigned female at birth.” But then I’m apparently an outlier, because I pronounce OMG as “oh my god” and BTW as “by the way” and it seems like nobody else of my acquaintance does it that way.
@Axecalibur
I dunno what’s official, but I say “ay-fab” or “ay-mab” (ex. “They say this dorm is split into a female and a male floor, but it’s more like an [ay-fab] and an [ay-mab] floor–there’s a person who’s trans male that’s been assigned to the former.”)
@PoM
BTW= bee tee dubs
OMG= silence, cos I’m not 12 /sarcasm but only kinda ?
@Troubelle
Missed the edit window, just as well *shrug*
That just sounds right, dunnit? OK, I’ll go with that from now on 🙂
Well, that’s disheartening. Not at all surprising but still pretty sad…
@Axecalibur
It was technically an EX, but it is actually the case at my dorm. He seems to be getting along alright for the most part, though. He made me udon noodles. I owe him gnocchi.
@POM
Tell me about it. Sometimes my emotion are an enormous pain in my ass.
1) Holy shit, Milo is a terrible person and wronger than wrong.
2) Holy shit, Anglin is a terrible person and wronger than wrong.
3) Holy shit, Beale is a terrible person and wronger than wrong.
This is it, this is a shit-black hole from which no reason can ever escape or emerge, and where all hopes and dreams go to die. It is a three-way collision of darkness, which is going to ensnare more darkness with it as it goes.
For everyone’s sake, I hope that this stays on realm of internet posturing and such, but there’s always splash-damage potential.
Seeing that none of the shitlords involved are going to listen a) me or b) reason of any sort, I’m just gonna take shelter and partake the popcorn generously offered and observe from safe distance.
Wow. I know I somewhat facetiously speculated that at worst he’d end up like Ernst Röhm, but it looks like these Little Hitler wannabes are gearing up for an actual Night of the Long Knives. Or maybe a Night of the Loud Slaps. I’m kind of hoping for the latter, as it will be every bit as messy but a whole helluva lot more funny, and all of them are sure to come off looking like the total prats they are. Sort of like a less witty version of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM
PS: The pies and cakes in the background were for use in a scene immediately following this one, which was later deleted, in which the whole solemn affair degenerated into farce, and there was a pie fight in which all combatants got extremely gooey, right before the Earth-shattering kaboom.
‘Member when right-wingers at least pretended to be colorblind? Yeah, I ‘member!
Social Justice Warrior started off as a term used by liberals against a few extremists.
Just an unrelated observation.