A white supremacist named Jeremy Christian has been identified as the man who allegedly stabbed three men on a Portland MAX train on Friday, killing two of them.
Witnesses said the killer was shouting racist slurs and harassing several Muslim women on the train and stabbed the men when they tried to intervene. Christian, charged with murder and attempted murder, is now being held without bail.
Even before the killings, Christian was well-known to local activists as a hothead given to threats of violence; he has a criminal record that includes robbery, kidnapping and weapons charges.
He showed up at a recent Portland-area “Free Speech” rally organized by right-wingers draped in an American flag, shouting slurs and carrying a baseball bat, which was thankfully confiscated by police. Not even the rally organizers wanted anything to do with him, and they blocked him from joining their rally.
But none of this has stopped neo-Nazi megablog the Daily Stormer from giving Christian two cheers — and a hearty “lol” — in the wake of the killings. As Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin sees it, Christian was nobly “[c]onfronting the people who are killing [us]” by allegedly harassing the Muslim women on the train.
As for the men who were killed after trying to intervene, Anglin says snidely that
maybe they should have just minded their own business, huh?
The type of person who would white knight for haji women is probably the worst type of person of all.
We are being slaughtered by these people, and it is incredible that this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often.
No time in history have we ever seen any situation like what we have right now: a situation where we are told we have to be kind to and protect an invading army that is slaughtering us on the streets.
I’m not quite sure how women sitting on a train minding their own business are somehow “slaughtering us on the streets,” but Nazi logic doesn’t much resemble the logic the rest of us were taught in school.
I just hope that when he was doing the stabbing he said “THIS IS FOR ARIANA!!!!!!111”
No, I don’t really hope that. But I would lol.
I’m sure he would.
Naturally, many of the Daily Stormer’s commenters are similarly flippant about the murders.
“2 collaborators down and 1 injured, whats not to like,” writes someone called Dax.
“[A]bout the idiot men that “defended” the women, you expected sex retribution?” snorts PugKommander, “but you get a grave retribution. For every white-knight there will be a white trooper.”
Mosin-Nagant compares Christian to racist mass murderer Dylann Roof.
Hmmm…. I like this guy more than Saint Bowlcut. He went all medievel on them and slashed throats. DyRo needs to 1-up this guy and shank more n*ggers in prison lol
cuck_rogers, meanwhile, posts a meme made from Christian’s mugshot, and asks: “When are we getting the charity drive going?”
The alt-right is breeding monsters.
FYI the name “Mosin-Nagant” is the name of a Soviet sniper rifle. Funny how these neo nazis seem to idolize the old USSR.
Jesus. This has been one hell of a month. Ugh. Seconding everyone else’s disgust and sadness.
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet….these weren’t Muslim women; they were teenagers. According to reports I’ve read, they were 16 year old friends. Ugh, that just makes all the “big, scary Muslim” and “sex retribution” talk that much more fucking disgusting.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/868559886745030656
@Haise: Maybe not like they used to be.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-extremists-program-exclusiv-idUSKBN15G5VO
Oh, hell. I hadn’t heard how young the Muslim women are. Those poor girls. What do you do when a couple of strangers end up dying for you?
@Nequam
“Yeah I mean.. we have terrorists here but they’re white so eh?”
Nothing says big, tough MANLY MAN like screaming at a couple of teenage girls.
Also further explains why they bolted before police arrived. They must have been so frightened and wanted their parents so badly. I hope they’re getting the support and counselling they need.
I don’t wish physical harm on the creep; I wish that he be put in a cell with good physical treatment, but otherwise…forgotten about. Oh, except for occasional updates on how well the families of his victims (including the girls) are doing now, and how they’re moving on from his attempt to destroy them. Just leave him there, seething impotently.
And how fucked up is it that impotent means both “powerless” and “a man being unable to get an erection”?
Nazi scum.
I have no words.
None that I can string together in my head, anyway. I’m glad the teenagers are safe, and that bystanders intervened…even though the bystanders were attacked.
This is just more proof that the police force is racist. What do you think are the odds this murderer would have been taken alive and uninjured and allowed to surrender if his skin hadn’t been white? And the nazis complain that they’re oppressed. pff.
I see minorities still don’t get to be children in the eye’s of the press.
This Guardian article reports on research and analysis about the link between the various extremist crowds that David and other Mammotheers made long ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/extremism-terrorism-far-right-neo-nazi-devon-arthurs
Ugh, those poor men. What’s truly disgusting is that this Nazi scum is the one whose name will be ‘famous,’ seen on headlines everywhere, but the two good men who died? Far fewer people will remember their names in a few months’ time. Fuck, this is depressing.
I feel awful for the teens, too. I can’t imagine how they must be feeling. I hope their families and the victims’ families can offer each other some support right now.
I don’t get this part:
Is he just plain ignoring the fact that it was the alt-right guy who did all the slaughtering in this situation? Or is he blaming the Muslim girls by saying they caused the deaths by daring to be targeted for harassment and thus act as “bait” for white knights to fall for and end up in a death trap?
I’m not sure I have anything to say that would not violate the comments policy, so brain bleach.
This batch is heavy on kitty belly
@BritterSweet
It’s a core principle of nazism that they consider “White people are/might become a minority in the future” to be exactly the same as “Brown people are murdering white people.” So in this situation, the fact that these kids were muslim means they are mass murderers of white folks and the Nazi was acting in self defense by harassing them and murdering bystanders without provocation.
Just one more reason why nazism must never be allowed a platform.
Once again just when you think the original incident was horrible enough there’s people able to add a shit flavoured cherry on top.
There’s a particular nastiness about Stormer though. It’s that twisting of everything, like that poor lass who got criticised by her dad for dating a black guy. And the comments about the guys who intervened remind me of the same snide slanders about the guys who rescued the girl in the Brock Turner case.
It says a lot that, like showing sympathy, helping people is seen as a bad thing by these individuals.
I’m particularly bugged by the snivelling cowardice though. They claim to be the ubermenshen, yet hide behind a keyboard. But slag off guys who show actual bravery. I’d like to think it’s promoted by self loathing at being reminded of their own inadequacy by comparison. That at least would show a level of self awareness. But I suspect it’s just because they’re vile.
Yeah it really is a shame how we’re just being asked to let
Nazis Do whatever they want or we’re accused of being intol…. oh wait you meant the Muslim women who was just standing around minding her own business.
Shut the fuck up and stop calling yourself Dax. Your White supremacism would not be welcome in the federation.
Both the victims that I’ve looked up genuinely look to have been good people and it broke my heart to read the social media message that the younger man’s sister left that I’ve seen. And it also makes me sad that Mr. Best served in the army for 23 years only to retire and get killed here.
And like I’ve said on my Facebook, hopefully all the good people I know take care when doing the right thing, because you never know when someone will have a gun or knife (not stop doing the right thing, just be careful).
…Aren’t these the same people who act like Richard Spencer being punched in the head was the worst thing imaginable…?
Boy, it’s almost like they’re massive hypocrites who totally support violence when it benefits them but will demonize it when it doesn’t!
Hey guys may i ask for some help? I’m trying to show someone that the daily stormer is a nazi site and not a parody of one, do you have any advice to help or recomindations to google to find sources?
Southern Poverty Law Center?
@Test
I’ve seen a post shared that looks like it’s from Taliesin’s parent (he’s referred to as their baby boy). It’s so heartbreaking.
Kupo,
Just saw it, it’s just as sad (the one I saw earlier from his sister that refers to having know him for 18 years and what a good big brother he was also almost made me cry).
And my comment upthread was an answer to the resource question.
And yet there are people who are mad that Richard Spencer got punched in the face.
I mean… really?
The surviving victim is apparently a poet and won a poetry slam for a poem condemning prejudice faced by Muslims
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.oregonlive.com/v1/articles/20764186/surviving_victim_of_friday_tra.amp