By David Futrelle
See correction at end of post.
The neo-Nazi internet tip sheet The Daily Stormer is warning CNN employees that itstroll army will “track down” their parents, siblings, spouses and children in an act of revenge against the network for its reporting on the racist and anti-Semitic Reddit memester who made a gif depicting Donald Trump body-slamming a man with a CNN logo for a head that achieved internet infamy after Trump himself retweeted it a few days ago.
What’s pissing off the Stormers, and the all-too-familiar assortment of internet deplorables (and bots) behind the #CNNBlackmail hashtag, is that CNN, which hasn’t publicly named the memester, says that as a news organization it retains the right to publicly identify him in the future.
Yep, that’s right: a bunch of dudes who have no problem doxxing or threatening to dox people they don’t like is mad at CNN for not actually doxxing someone. And neo-Nazi hacker Andrew Auernheimer, aka weev, seems to be the angriest of the bunch, his fury initially driven in part by false reports that the memester was 15 years old. (He is in fact an adult.) And so in a post on the Daily Stormer he rallied the troops for what he sees as a righteous campaign to force CNN “to taste their own medicine.” Although it isn’t the “same medicine” at all.
After presenting CNN with a list of ridiculous demands that no real news organization would ever meet — including firing all the journalists vaguely connected to the CNN story and setting up a $50,000 college scholarship for the racist memester — weev declares
If you do not do this, we are going to be tracking you down just like you tracked him down.
You are fake news, and we are the real media. As journalists, we have the right to track people down and seek comment on your criminal associations. We now have jackboots on the ground in every major metro area in the world.
We are going to track down your parents.
We are going to track down your siblings.
We are going to track down your spouses.
We are going to track down your children. Because hey, that’s what you guys get to do, right? We’re going to see how you like it when our reporters are hunting down your children.We are going to seek comment from them all, because you are fake news terrorists engaged in a seditious plot to undermine our President and the 63 million people who voted for him. HanAssholeSolo was a private citizen, but none of you are. We are going to see you brought to account for this, because that’s what real media does: expose criminals.
The difference being that when real real reporters “seek comment” from someone, they literally seek comment from them. When Stormers and their alt-right pals “seek comment” from people it usually means the targets of their “questioning” get sent a lot of death threats and oven memes, an impression Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin doesn’t exactly dispel with his own post filled with an assortment of violent anti-CNN memes, including one featuring the heads of assorted CNN journalists pasted onto photos of Jews in a concentration camp and another one of CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, the author of the offending story, warning him to “sleep with one eye open.”
Weev goes on to inform
Any CNN employee that does not want to be tracked down alongside their families will have one additional week to quit CNN and denounce their act of blackmail against a private citizen. After that, it is game on.
Do you understand what is coming? This is going to be ironic punishment. You are going to have the exact thing done to you that you’ve been doing to us for ages. You have an easy chance to stop this, so don’t say that we don’t play fair, and don’t pretend you didn’t have it coming.
We didn’t make these rules – you did – and now we’re going to force you to play by them. Hope you enjoy what is coming, you filthy rat kike bastards.
Kill yourselves, kike news fakers. You deserve every single bit of what you are about to get.
Lovely.
CORRECTION: This story originally attributed a Daily Stormer post to the site’s publisher Andrew Anglin; it was actually written for the Daily Stormer by neo-Nazi hacker Andrew Auernheimer, aka weev. Anglin posted his own threatening post later.
It’s almost as if a presidential candidate espousing the extrajudicial murder of family members of ‘bad guys’ and deriding the media as evil has fuckin consequences…
*cough*butnotthesixtyfivemillionwhovotedagainsthim*cough*
Hey look! A really sweet kid who is donating his birthday money to the Tacoma Humane Society!
His name is Wilson. A single one of his hairs is worth more than Anglin and his little menagerie of wannabe badasses ever could be.
The money will be used to vaccinate and treat homeless kitties.
Oh, FUCK YOU, Anglin, you puffed up, self-important piece of shit.
“You have no power here. Now begone.”
Shorter Anglin:
God bless you, Good Kid Wilson, also you have a birman cat and birmans are as if someone went: ‘I’m going to design the best value cat in the world. It will be genetically beautiful, gentle, robust, AND easily trained.’
I have shelter kitties now, but birmans are just amazing cats. I had a series of them for a while, and they usually seem to live to their early twenties.
Well, that’s a credible threat. All it will take is one attempted violent act against any of his named targets, and his ass is grass.
Absolutely. It’s well known that every serious journalist wears jackboots. And has those boots on the ground.
Brenda Starr had the cutest jackboots ever! That said, I’m sure that Andrew Anglin and his friends also have attractive jackboots.
Oh, certainly. Legitimate journalists “seek comment” from all and sundry. And their jackboots are very, very shiny while they seek comment.
Yes, that is the way that grown-up journalists act. It’s their way of complimenting another journalist.
Andrew Anglin is merciful indeed to allow CNN employees another week to throw their careers into a garbage can and denounce their employer, the wicked, wicked network called CNN.
It’s totally standard operating procedure for the big-kid reporters to mention how they didn’t make the rules, the subjects of their soon-to-be-written story did.
If Brenda Starr said this once, she said it a million times. And
there is no way that law enforcement could come down on Anglin and his friends for simply suggesting that the subjects of a story take themselves hence to the afterlife sooner rather than later. No way at all.
…Jesus H. Christ.
I’m just going to describe my breakfast plans for tomorrow.
My dad’s girlfriend made toasted open-faced sandwiches with ham and turkey. Two went uneaten. So what I plan to do is tear them up, put them in a greased bowl, add egg (and salt and pepper and cheese), stir it up, and nuke it.
Boom. Egg sammie you eat with a spoon.
I posted a comment that is awaiting moderation . . . because (I assume) I quoted David quoting Andrew Anglin.
Snort.
Trump’s America, where agencies dedicated to fighting white terrorism has been defunded and white supremacists are constantly given the wink wink nudge nudge to feel like they can commit these acts without worry of consequence. Yay…
But it’s the Internet therefore IT’S JUST A PRANK BRO
https://twitter.com/Bye_ByeBirdy/status/882636534431834116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.somethingawful.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Fthreadid%3D3708238%26pagenumber%3D118%23lastpost
Totally not fascist its economic anxiety
Can somebody please explain to me why this doesn’t scare the hell out of you people?
Yes, I understand that anglin is a wanker with no real power or influence, but the problem is, the people who do allow him to influence them are a bitter lot of mentally challenged ( perhaps due to inbreeding) flunkies.
Would it really be unexpected of at least one of them, inspired by their not-so glorious leader to tracked down and harmed a family member if a CNN employee? I mean, seriously- people though Eliot Roger was just a borish big talker
And , if that happens, to the family of just one reporter, it will, kid yourself not, have a chilling and damaging effect on freedom of the press.
I feel like I’m living in a nineteen thirties Superman adventure- that’s how seriously over-the-top evil and proud of it these creeps seem to be to me
I think you may want to review the comments policy.
@Hexum7
Andrew Anglin and his plans do scare the hell outta me.
That doesn’t mean I can’t have fun at his expense.
@Hexum7
It’s still possible to laugh at Anglin and be scared of the fact that current events make cowards like Anglin feel like they’re in power and untouchable at the same time.
Could I get a verification of something?
Did Anglin write this, or weev? Because the linked article is attributed to weev.
And if it *is* weev, it’d be best if David changes attribution in his post, because, yanno. We don’t want our Cat God to be accused of shoddy journalism.
KITTIES!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!
Ahem.
Just thought you might like to know, someone’s doxxing the doxxers. Anglin & Co. are gonna have a fun shitfest on their hands before too long.
And however one feels about doxxing, one can’t deny that these ratbastards deserve whatever they have coming by now.
Carry on.
Chainsawsuit put this whole business quite well.
“I’m not a bad person!”
“Okay, but aren’t you curious as to why when you do anything, bad people seem to get all jazzed?”
“Oh, that’s just a coincidence that always happens.”
@Bina
I . . . That is . . . Er . . .
What a shame.
@Kat:
Is that a note of sarcasm I detect?
Bina: As a bastard for the first few months of my life (until my adoption went through), and as a person who once kept pet rats and has some sympathy for rodents in general (which doesn’t keep me from keeping cats to eat them), I wish to officially manifest my resentment for your referring to human waste like Andrew Anglin as “ratbastards.” It is both speciesist and (though indirectly) an implied insult to the morals of my birth mother. /s
Oh dear. I HAVE stepped in it, haven’t I.
@ Bina
I cannot celebrate, and yet neither can I mourn.
“Scare me” personally, no, not really, as I’m not a journalist, nor do I work at CNN. I’m unlikely to ever see AA anywhere. Mr. Dis InfoWarz, I might see and laugh at.
I’m seriously annoyed with people who threaten journalists and families with violence (“seek comments” yeah, right) for the terrible thing of possibly pointing out which specific person the article was about.
Most places where journalists are frequently threatened, harrassed, or otherwise harmed, are not wonderful places to live.
Not sure why, but the old Bene Gesserit “Gom Jabbar” method of determining “humanity” came to mind while considering this.
And in the end, it will be like the opposite of the Turner Diaries…right?