Here’s an amazing little Twitter exchange:
Yep, that’s right. The weird uncle of the Men’s Rights movement online is criticizing the Anne Frank Center for “whining” about the HOLOCAUST.
Apparently the murder of millions pales in comparison to the truly important issues faced by men today, like the problem of women being a bunch of “c–ts.”
NOTICE TO EXTREMELY LITERAL MINDED READERS: That last sentence contains sarcasm.
Thanks to TakedownMRAs on Twitter for catching this one and grabbing the screenshots.
Boy, you think someone’s hit rock bottom – but then they find a new low somehow…
Thanks. It feels good to have finally walked away after decades of putting up with vile bigotry of every sort and all kinds of other nastiness. Only wish I’d done it years before.
Loved the gif, by the way.
＠Judas
At the very least you’re away from all that nastiness.
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When I was was a child in the 1950s and 1960s, my minister was a member of the John Birch Society.
The minister after that was a racist. After the choir sang a hymn one Sunday morning, he ascended to the pulpit and remarked, “Well, that sounded better than We Shall Overcome.”
At Thanksgiving, he wrote an article for the church bulletin that explained that the first Thanksgiving was a celebration of the fact that the Puritans no longer lived and worked communally. I was 13 and thought, Hmm. If only you had some proof of this.
Later on, it came to light that he had been telling some parishioners that he had power over whether they went to heaven or hell. Then there was the time he spent the night at the home of a woman not his wife. This woman happened to live next door to a woman who sat on the church board of trustees.
It was the last two things that got him canned.
I’m glad that you got away safely, Judas.
My parents are pretty liberal by Afrikaner standards, for which I’m very grateful. My (late) grandfather, on the other hand, was not. He was careful not to say anything around my sister and I when we were children; but when we got older I heard the occasional comment about how giving rights to Black people was a plot by the English and the Jews to destroy Afrikaner civilisation.
He was a bitter old man and I’m sad that he’s dead.
NickNameNick:
I’m beginning to suspect they must have a drill.
Ooglyboggles
Thank you for those lovely gifs. For some reason, my brain decided the dog and ferret were playing round a mini Tardis. I was having such fun coming up with the backstory when I realised it was more likely to be a suitcase.
Yep, sounds like Paul Elam has been feeling ignored again.
*Pukes*
Hey, Elam! You know that a bunch of the people killed in the Holocaust were men, right?
The men’s human rights movement, folks!
I don’t know that I have any racist uncles. On the other hand, my dad is someone else’s racist uncle. :/
I wonder if Elam is particularly infuriated with the Anne Frank Centre because it’s set up to honour the memory of a girl.
And a particularly brave and inspirational one at that.
Bina:
I think Elam lost hi followers mainly because he was such an obvious conman. Otherwise he’d still be a semi-famous thought leader either in MRM or Alt-Reich.
I’ve only heard my aunt say that speaking Spanish in public should be cause for arrest, but the conversation didn’t even break, so either that’s par for the course or the rest of my aunts and uncles agreed.
Oh, that’s a ferret! I was wondering what the animal who took the dog’s toy was 🙂
Among my uncles (two living, one dead) none are known to be racist. There’s one who has been kind of crappy to the rest of his family and hasn’t made efforts to patch up arguments that he started, but that’s another story.
By the way, Paul Elam, the expression is “for pity’s sake”. (This correction was for petty’s sake, but so was Elam’s tweet.)
Catsnake; is catsnake
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Snakest of cats. Or fractional David.
Maybe the tatzelwurm was just a badly-described ferret?
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My uncle’s the full “MUSLIMS AND JOOZ IN MY SOUP” genocidesturbating* Stormfronter type – even though my late grandfather (his father) fought for the Allies in the Middle Eastern Theatre, for fuck’s sake – but his army of block-evading Breitbart-forwarding sockpuppet email accounts has proven to be no match for my ultimate weapon: Donating to refugee charities in his name. Mwahaha!
*Why the hell does Chrome recognise that as a word?
@Arctic Ape:
Well, they’re ALL kind of obvious conmen…but it’s pretty clear that a coherent ideology beyond the usual “I hate women and girls, so nyaaaaaah!” is the better con. Even if the ideology itself is obvious bullshit, at least it makes them FEEL smart and superior to believe in it. And to follow the obvious conman selling them that obvious snake oil.
I only have one uncle, and he’s not particularly racist; nor is my great uncle, who I actually have a lot more contact with. By all accounts his brother, my grandfather, was a right shithead on many levels, but he died long before my birth, so I wouldn’t know. Grandma’s second husband was an abusive scumfuck. I don’t know how specifically racist he was, but it often goes hand in hand with other bigotries, so I’m guessing pretty racist.
@kat
Are you sure that one wasn’t a Bircher too?
@LindsayIrene
I should think it would have to some particular breed of ferret, or perhaps a deformed one, as I can’t imagine anyone native to the area not being familiar with polecats and ferrets; both have been common in the region for millenia.
I don’t think ideology matters much, and Elam was initially quite successful (I get the impression there was a brief heyday of the general MRM in the early 2010s). I suspect he eventually built a bad reputation for scrounging too much money and being a petty tyrant in his community.
I speak to almost no family, so I have no idea about any racist uncles. 😛
@Dave
Off topic, but have you seen this tweet from JudgyB!tch?
Holy fuck. Just when you think JB couldn’t get any worse and any more desperate for attention, she finds a new low.
The tweet she was replying to is pretty horrible too. Apparently now according to the alt-right, you can’t be racist if you’ve never owned a black slave.
@PaganReader
Poe is now butchered to a million tiny pieces. They are literally saying they’re not racist because they aren’t slave owners. Have their minds been swapped with pre civil war era plantation owners?