By David Futrelle
Lefty media site Unicorn Riot, which is doing a bang-up job exposing the so-called alt-right — recently obtained a virtual treasure trove of chat logs and audio files in which members of Patriot Front, a self-described “American fascist” group that split off from Vanguard America last year, talk about how much they hate Jews and love guns and all the assorted other things that the shithead Nazis of today like to talk about.
Some of the most hair-raising discussions in this vast pile of terrible concern one group of human beings that the current generation of Nazis especially hate: women. Nazis and white supremacists have always been sexist, but in the past their sexism always had a paternalistic side to it. Nazis and Klansmen claimed to want to protect and even celebrate white women, and many women found this appealing. In the 1920s, the women’s auxilliary of the KKK had a half million members.
The alt-right of today, by contrast, is overwhelmingly male — and overwhelmingly misogynistic, with an anti-woman ideology not that far removed from your average incel.
Take a listen to how these guys talk about women when they think no one is paying attention. If anything, their comments are even worse than the descriptions below suggest.
(Content advisory: sexual assault)
Patriot Front members are told that in an American ethnostate, rape is OK "as long as you're raping.. your own race." "Ethnostate rape gangs" would target unmarried white women who didn't adhere to "traditional values" https://t.co/lEVX6Izuzn pic.twitter.com/nIoL9skbNn— UNICORN RIOT (@UR_Ninja) March 5, 2018
In the recorded Discord voice meeting, Patriot Front members expand on their vision of 'White Sharia' in America. They discuss a desire to return to gender roles from the 1890s & share their admiration for Hitler's family planning policies in Nazi Germany https://t.co/lEVX6Izuzn pic.twitter.com/f5dqQCFCyB
— UNICORN RIOT (@UR_Ninja) March 5, 2018
It’s probably not much of a surprise that these guys are also violently homophobic.
Patriot Front's vision of 'White Sharia' also involves an extremely homophobic component. The only gay people that would be allowed to live in their American ethnostate would be those who "don't ever speak about it" https://t.co/lEVX6Izuzn pic.twitter.com/VqsB3RSOSp
— UNICORN RIOT (@UR_Ninja) March 5, 2018
Check out the rest of this twitter thread to hear the Patriot Front boys’ thoughts on the relative merits of different guns, the alleged racist evil of Black Lives Matter, and their alt-right rivals The Traditionalist Workers Party.
For more on the brief but still pretty awful history of Patriot Front, check out Unicorn Riot’s feature on the group, which also contains links to UR’s archives of the 26,0000 Discord messages they, er, obtained from these lovely lady hating fascists.
@WWTH
Thank you for that.
@SFHC
Good question. I really don’t think she is.
EJ, with all due respect, SFHC’s quote was
In other words, not a Jewish woman. A far-right extremist pretending to be.
That’s my take, anyway.
So, off topic but I found the ultimate misandry video
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/972270869606207490
Eartha Kitt: Goddess.
I read the responses and my Favorite was the man who shared his experiences with his wife, and realized she was right.
He stated he was silly to think that his wife couldn’t have lived without him when she did perfectly fine before he got there.
“This is a cake I made, you’re just the icing on top” is a strong statement and I’m personally keeping it in mind.
Eartha made a good point too: “A man comes into MY life, and *I* have to compromise???”
@WWTH
Cue mansplainer. https://twitter.com/rhymes_with_cat/status/972293544764428288?s=19
(WTF, autocorrect. I get mansplainer not being in your dictionary, but replacing it with mamsplains? Really?)
@ WWTH (and all other horror buffs and cinemaphiles generally)
You might enjoy this if you can find a way of watching it. Analysis of Hitchcock’s shower scene and it’s legacy on cinema.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w3w9v
Great interviews with modern directors on how it influenced them. Including the guy who does Game of Thrones. I’ve never seen GOT, but he says one iconic scene was directly influenced by the film.
@kupo
Your dictionary has a specific word for my mother?!!! 😛
From kupo’s mansplainer link, my fave comment:
*snort*
(and they have “yoga” in their Twitter handle. I’m so embarrassed to be a yoga fan right now)
when she first commented I mentioned that this word made me uncomfortable and I think even if it is to reclaim, it is not acceptable. I don’t think other slurs (for example one for black people) which sometimes reclaimed, will be accepted. because for me anyway, that I must to read comments full with ‘y*d’ from everyone who replies it not nice at all. and I am sure for many people they feel same.
so even if it is not internet Nazi pretending, it is still not acceptable, in my opinion.