It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a fan of Rody Duterte. The “strongman” president of the Philippines apparently feels the same way about Trump, congratulating the president-elect for his (electoral college) victory in a phone call last week. According to Duterte, Trump invited him to visit the White House, and praised him for a shockingly literal “war on drugs” that has racked up a death toll of 4.500 in less than six months.
Some of Donald Trump’s far-right fanboys are even more enamored of Duterte and his murderous ways — inspired especially by his past as the “Death Squad mayor” of Davao City, widely accused of “condoning and even inciting” the murders of more than 1000 citizens by right-wing death squads. Back in the early 2000s, Human Rights Watch notes,
Duterte would announce the names of “criminals” on local television and radio—and some of those he named would later become victims of death squad killings.
Now the Daily Stormer wants to get in on that action, providing its own list of people they hope American vigilantes might deliver a similar sort of justice to.
Rather than providing individual names, the Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin suggests seven categories of people who right-wing death squads in America might consider targeting.
Anglin begins with the “degenerate artists and musicians who are degrading our society with corrosive filth,” declaring that “[n]o one is more deserving of the old “double tap” than [them].”
The “double tap,” FYI, is a shooting technique designed to ensure that the shooting victim is indeed dead.
Anglin moves on to the women he calls
filthy, lying sluts, who would just as soon have sex with a random black guy in a gas station bathroom as play a puzzle game on their cellphone. There is no group of people more deserving of swift and rapid extermination.
Were Trump to send Right-Wing Death Squads to murder these “sluts,” he adds,
[w]omen would then think twice before spreading their legs, and instead return to the kitchen and shut their lying whore mouths.
Next on Anglin’s list: lefty professors allegedly corrupting the youth of America. Were Right-Wing Death Squads to “target the most extreme offenders,” he notes happily, this would
let the rest of them know that they’d better clean up their act and stop turning our kids into communists.
Doubling down on his racism, Anglin next suggests the death quads aim their, er, justice at immigrants living in the US legally. Yes, legally.
“President Trump will have no problem removing illegal immigrants,” Anglin explains.
However, through fraud, the Jews have brought in many, many brown sludge “people” through “legal” means. These people are harder to get rid of, as changing laws can be boring and time consuming.
It is hard to legally deport a person with legal status to be in the country, but you know what isn’t hard to deport? A bullet-riddled corpse. You can deport it six feet under ground with nothing more than a shovel and some elbow grease.
Next, Anglin directs the attention of would-be vigilante killers to the alleged problem of “[w]hinorities, feminists, homosexuals and vegans” and their “disgusting street protests” that block traffic and make it hard for decent Americans to make it to work on time.
If human rights activist leaders get rode up on by a man on a Kawasaki with a Glock 18 on their way out of the co-opt [sic], no one is going to cry for them other than those who were already crying about something else.
And what about the politicians who stand in the way of Trump’s agenda? They can’t raise objections to Trump’s policies, Anglin notes, “if they’re lying in the gutter filled with .40 caliber hollowpoints.”
Anglin finishes up his list with Trump’s favorite scapegoat: Allegedly “lying journalists.”
“[S]uing them is time-consuming and expensive, even after we open-up the libel laws,” Anglin complains. “Thankfully, a quicker solution exists with [Right-Wing Death Squads].”
In a transparently disingenuous “Editor’s Note” following Anglin’s post — presumably written by Anglin himself, as he is the editor of the site — he tries to pretend that all of his explicit calls for murder are not actually explicit calls for murder at all.
This is in no way a call for violence or murder. This is a policy position paper in the form of a listicle. The Daily Stormer is opposed to violence, and simply supports the practical implementation of innovative policies which will lead to a great America.
I suppose the next line of defense for Anglin and his apologists will be to claim he was just kidding, an argument that might be a bit easier to make if Anglin did not in fact despise all of his suggested targets with a completely un-ironic passion. “I hate you and want you killed” is not really much of a joke.
Sunday, I don’t need to remind you, a man with an assault rifle opened fire at Comet Ping Pong, a DC pizzeria bizarrely targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists and Trump fans, including Anglin himself. Similarly, a shocking number of those put on public enemies lists by anti-abortion fanatics have been murdered by other anti-abortion fanatics.
What Anglin has done here is more than a little reminiscent of Duterte’s naming of “criminals” on television. The main difference isn’t Anglin’s sometimes jokey tone. It’s that we don’t have right-wing death squads here in the US.
At least not at the moment. We have, of course, had them in the past: the Klan in several of its past incarnations murdered countless black men. Should this kind of ugliness return to America, I suspect that most of the new recruits will come from precisely the demographic Anglin and his friends in the alt-right most appeal to — young white men suffused with aggrieved entitlement and eager to settle scores.
This is what our country is turning into.
@ Troubelle
Fair point. I’ll swap psycho for asshole I guess!
This is the thing that puts the lie to the bigots’ “reasoning” for their hatred… they claim it’s because of some behavior or other factor that the “others” display (“black criminals” is a big one), but no matter what the “others” do, the bigots respond with the same shit. Anglin can whine all he wants about “crime, sluts, politics, nationality”, the truth is, he hates because the objects of his hatred LOOK DIFFERENT
@ D.Glen
While I would object on the topic of assholes actually being useful things, it still works a lot better. Thank you, and try to be more conscious of what words you use in the future!
@Scildfreja
I’m only tangentially aware of Asterix thanks to TV Tropes, sorry. But I stick to my terms.
@Weird Eddie
Hey, I’ve already scratched out some lyrics here and there and can jerry-rig some notes. I don’t use Pandora, but I’ll see what I can scrape up in terms of inspiration. If y’all want, I can output something right here.
@ Troubelle
WAY COOL! I’ve got a really deep soft spot for folk music of all kinds. In troubled times, these songs serve to unite us and to reinforce our common cause. I believe we’ve got a music gene that goes way deep (not actually a genetic predisposition to be musical, tho it sure could be), and I’ve seen evidence, tenuous and interpretive, but evidence nonetheless of musical instruments as old as 30,000 years in Australia.
The civil rights marches of the 1950-60s were paced and punctuated with uplifting “We Shall Overcome” tunes, and the anger of the 1960s anti-war movement was stoked and focused by songwriters.
I’m not musical*, so I can’t play it, but I love the music and all it can accomplish! Please do work up some tunes and let us see them!!
*side note, my mom was a concert pianist and organist, dad had a degree in music, sang and directed church choir… and neither my brother nor I could play a radio!!! We jokingly wondered if we were adopted
@Weird Eddie
Again, I haven’t tried doin’ notation yet. I can just scratch out some good words and sorta…put them to a tune, likely chopped out of five other things I’ve heard before. Gimme a topic and I’ll jot out two verses and a chorus. (A little practice never hurt anybody.)
And it has stuck with us since before I was extant, and with all hope, it will continue to be with us long after our deaths.
lmao @ the fightin’ words from the manboobz set. It’s like the lot of you have forgotten who’s actually doing the fighting when the shit hits the fan.
Methinks you’re going to need a few more white men on your side if you hope to stand a chance 😉
(I wonder if it’s lost on you that even in your dumb comic book analogies, white men are the ones doing the fighting).
Further to the Swedish Lucia story:
Though Sweden’s version of the eponymous figure of the December 13th Lucia feast is often represented by a stereotypically Nordic-looking blonde haired girl, the St. Lucy it celebrates actually hailed from Syracuse, a city on the island of Sicily, southern Italy.
@Scildfreja – I grew up on Asterix too! I loved the punny names that Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge gave the characters in translation, like Crismusbonus and Mykingdomforanos. Though I always wondered why they didn’t just dip all the babies of the village in magic potion and create an entire army of invincible Gauls.
@Alex Stallwitz, my thoughts exactly.
Well, my thoughts were, “Ugh, if he’s going to get his semen stains on my Gilbert and Sullivan, the least he could do is go full-on filk with it.” And abruptly, I got the notion to write that up, possibly with obvious Mammotheer references. (“There’s the ketchup-spewing heathen who was really rather rude/ When she turned away my mammoth meat/ Such damned ingratitude!/ The fact-checking librarians, the Brits of scathing wit!/ I’ve got them on the list…”) Really, Muse? This is what you give me? I won’t write the songs that the Nazis are too lazy to come up with on their own, I shan’t do it!
@Troubelle
Let us know what you come up with in terms of songs! This whole Trump catastrophe has inspired me to write some songs, but although my songs mostly start with accoustic strumming I find it hard to stick to a traditional folk style.
All right. Which long banned troll is this?
Notice the part I bolded.
@forTheDullz
Honey, please. Non-white non-men have been fighting long before you came screaming into this world, and against far worse odds. And we have been winning things throughout history. We will not stop until either the world goes up in flames (or is otherwise made into tresh), or people no longer think like you, or anywhere close to how you think.
@Conan
Eh, I can toss out a few lines for ya…gimme a sec…
Got the old flesh lingerin’ under our boots
With the roads under us trailing into the horizon line
And we’ll keep on walking until seeds turn into shoots
And we’ll say without irony, “This is fine.”
Any good?
@Weirwood Tree Hugger: Really? That’s what s/he went with?
Because I love Asterix, but I also adore the webcomic StrongFemaleProtagonist, and in that one, a woman is the one doing the name-taking, gum-chewing, and bottom-kicking. (Hey, has there been a Pippi Longstocking graphic novel? It seems like it would translate well to that medium.)
Poor sweet pea there does not seem like he or she has chosen a winning tack.
@newbies except Lulz
Hiya, I’m Axe! All aboard the Mammoth. Welcome package on the right side of the page, and don’t be strangers 🙂
@Lulz
OK, let’s assume we need more white men for some reason to do some or other thing (I don’t really even know what you’re talking about). Granted. How would you suggest we go about acquiring white men? Do we abduct them in the night? Blackmail? 401K and dental? Don’t just state the (not at all imaginary /s) problem, provide solutions. I’ll wait
@Trolly VonLulz
First of all: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
Second of all:
Black US Army Veterans of Vietnam
Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation
Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Army
American Women Veterans
A Brief History of American Indian Military Service
etc.etc.etc.
Whatever, troll.
@lulz:
I’m a white man. David Futrelle is a white man. There are several other white men here. Feminism doesn’t strictly need white men, though (being the privileged class, and therefore in a better position to make changes in society) they are a good asset to it; women are braver and hardier than you and your type give them credit for. This blog hasn’t been called Man Boobz in years. I don’t recall anyone making comic book analogies. You’re completely wrong; away with you!
White man here, too. Donated a bit to the Standing Rock tribe, since I can’t get that far North any time soon. “You can’t do this thing yet”-Army Corps of Engrs. “We must do this thing now, Obama overreach! blah blah”-DAPL (hoping to get this away from Obama to their new friend Trump before someone manages to figure out how to sue and get it stopped properly)
Note for the slow of thinking (Lulz): Obama is Commander in Chief, so he does get to tell the Army CoE what to do. Once Trump is in, he can tell them to go ahead and continue. I might not like the second option, but as long as the first one exists, it works. Gives time for things to be reconsidered, or more thoroughly rejected, before something difficult to remove has been built.
Killing all immigrants to America would mean killing 98.3% of the population. Because, you know, First Nations people make up approximately 1.7% of the American population.
…Oh wait, I’m receiving word that by “immigrants”, he meant “non-white people” (probably including First Nations people, though perhaps they have been generously grouped under the umbrella of protestors and vegans, and not immigrants). How surprising.
@Lone Galtian Bootstrapper: That video literally made me tear up. Holy shit that was lovely.
I wonder if Milo Y. read Anglin’s screed.
You’d think Anglin wouldn’t want to emulate a “brown sludge” person like Duterte.
I think Duterte will eventually end up dead after he steps on the wrong toes.
Apologies if this has already been posted.
Trump aide Michael Flynn Jnr out after ‘Pizzagate’ tweets
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38231532
Here’s a photo of the guy being arrested for “investigating Pizzagate” with a gun:
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/937A/production/_92845773_hi036737509.jpg
I don’t like to be snarky in general, but a disclaimer to a call to hate doesn’t do anything except cover ass.
@Scildfreja Unnýðnes
aaaaaand now I am reminded of the Pirates (just realized they’re the team rocket of Asterix; instead of blasting off, they get sunk all the time) and specifically the African lookout who spoke in a broken accent and had huge lips…
I too tend to go easier on older stuff although I hadn’t thought about Asterix until I thought about it now, at the time I didn’t think anything of it (though I did notice there wasn’t exactly an abundance of female characters).
Got a favorite? I think mine would be Asterix and the Vikings. I love the premise, the vikings literally don’t know fear, so they come to Gaul to discover what it is. “Every nation we conquer brags about how much fear it has, WHAT IS THIS POWER!?” is just hilarious. Meanwhile Obelix and Asterix make fun of them for all having names that end in -AF.
@numerobis
I have noticed a few great parodies! The “endless gridlock traffic in Lutece” is pretty accurate and obviously making fun of how shitty it is to drive in Paris. What are some good ones?
EDIT: Speaking of ‘French things with problematic elements” Babar the Elephant. Whooo boy…. That one might actually be too far…
Dear forTheLulz,
Your view of white men seems very bleak: that when violence happens, people will need us and wish that they had been nicer to us all along. I’ve spoken to the rest of the Grand Council of White People and we have decided that we object to your assertion, for two reasons.
Firstly, white men are often good for things other than violence. We can put up shelves, cook meals, negotiate contracts, write SQL functions that apply in-database Bayesian filtering to remove anomalous data, all that sort of thing. We’re not like that screwdriver set which you bought to put up IKEA furniture and which now languishes at the bottom of the cupboard, kept only because you might hypothetically need to put up more furniture in the future, even though you haven’t done so for years. We have uses.
Secondly, even if it does go to violence, why would we need the soldiers to be white? Wouldn’t we be better off getting Afghans, say, or Vietnamese? If history has taught us anything it’s that white people are pretty mediocre at winning wars.
That Polish ad made me cry. So lovely.
So – if I’m on the list in MULTIPLE categories, do I get to yell bingo? Admittedly my status as a legal resident of the US has lapsed and I’m now limited to watching this shitshow from a distance, but I still counted at least three of his six remaining bugbears I fit – and one of those I fit thrice over.