Tila Tequila brings D-list celebrity glamour to Alt-Right conference in DC this weekend

Isn’t Chuck autistic?

He claims he is, but I think he’s only claiming that because he thinks it gives him free reign to act like an asshole. It’s trendy to say you have Asperger’s or high-functioning autism so you can go out there on the internet and be a total douchecanoe with no consequences. Such behavior is so harmful to those of us actually on the spectrum.

As for Tila Tequila, she appears to be in serious need of some help. Her distressing behavior does suggest to me that she is facing mental issues, but I’m not going any further than that. I’m no mental health expert. I can only hope one day she realizes she needs to make a few changes in her life.

@Michael : her behavior is a bit more complicated than being a shithead. She can have a problem *and* be a shithead at the same time, it’s not mutually exclusive.

Looks like a case of too much of the cactus juice she took her stage name from…

If evidence of actual mental illness presents itself then that would be the time to start factoring that into an analysis of her behavior.

That’s just the thing, there seems to be evidence. It doesn’t change much to the asshole thing, of course. But it adds some perspective regarding how nazis won’t hesitate to use vulnerable people to further their own rhetoric. It also means that we should be careful mocking her for the outlandish things she said (like the alpha male thing). It absolutely doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call her out on the more “usual” nazi stuff though.

On a somewhat related note, I’m surprised that she seems to have escaped the slut-shaming. Paris Hilton recently came out as a Trump voter and the usual assholes literally said “all is forgiven” in a DS post entitled “Whore’s Homecoming”. If that doesn’t make it to top example for “backhanded” in every new dictionnary edition from now on, I don’t know what will.

@calmdown and re: the article by Scott Alexander:

I’ve recently been re-reading a book. Milton Mayer’s, “They Thought They Were Free.” It’s basically an attempt to make sense of Nazi Germany, aided by extensive interviews with a number of petty bourgeois in Königsberg. However, the chapter that stuck most with me – “But Then It Was Too Late” – was a recollection of a conversation Mayer had with an academic who tried to make sense of how things could have gone as they did. By happy coincidence, it seems like I am not the only one to think of it as the most important part of the book, since the University of Chicago Press decided to excerpt it on their website:

In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

“And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

Speaking of D-list celebrity alt-rightists:

I know there’re a few JonTron fans here, and, uh… I have some bad news.

@SFHC

Anybody got a screaming gif? I’m only equipped with my phone at the moment.

Frustrating news here regarding online harassment. Body positive activist Stina Wollter had her Instagram account shut down. She would post pictures and video clips of herself dancing fully clothed and in various states of undress, within the boundaries of community guidelines. In reply, obviously she received a million dick pics. Her response was to just return the dick pics to the senders. For this, she was reported and had her account shut down for “harassing” other users by sending dick pics. Can’t make this shit up.

I don’t think this is going to end well for TT, esp if she wants to retain custody of her child.

I once met a native-American who was a neo-nazi. He just didn’t get that he would have been head to the ovens if the Nazis would have won. He didn’t think he would because he wasn’t a jew. Didn’t realize that being not-white was also important.

Holy tape:

His name wasn’t Jeff Weise, by any chance?

@SFHC

Facebook’s policies are certainly applied in such a way that targets of harassment are burdened far more than their harassers, not to mention being applied unevenly for even the same content. Whether or not they intend to ban progressive speech, that’s the effect – groups coordinating to harass others are given pass after pass while their critics get 30-day suspensions for reposting the group’s content for the purposes of criticism. People explicitly threatening bodily harm to LGBT users get shrugged off, but their critics get hit with spurious “real name” reports. It’s a complete Bizarro World method of handling community policy, and even if the intent is not retaliatory, it certainly feels that way with the fact that vocal critics of Facebook’s refusal to crack down on harassment are the ones being hit with the suspensions and bans.