By David Futrelle
It’s like a regular Peyton Place, but with Nazis. Violent Alt-Nazi doofus Matthew Heimbach, leader of the so-called Traditionalist Worker Party, has gotten himself into a little bit of trouble with the law, and his followers, and perhaps most of all his extended family after allegedly assaulting his wife and father-in-law after allegedly being caught in flagrante delicto with, er, his mother-in-law.
It’s a novel way to try to fulfill the Traditional Worker Party’s mission of “defending Faith, Family, and Folk,” I’ll grant you that, but Heimbach had apparently been honoring Family pretty enthusiastically with his mother-in-law for several months, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
According to the police report on the incident (which you can find here, courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center), Heimbach’s wife and father in law (now ex-TWP spokesman Matt Parrot) discovered the affair last week, and after being confronted with this, young Mr. Heimbach and not-quite-as-young Mrs. Parrott said they had broken it off.
But dad and daughter didn’t believe it, so they decided to spy on the star-crossed couple to see if they could really manage the difficult task of not boinking each other. The amateur spies snuck up on the trailer where the two had gone — did I mention that they all live in the same trailer park? — and peered in a window only to find that, well, the affair wasn’t quite over. Matt Parrott literally watched himself get cucked by the leader of the organization he had sworn loyalty to.
At this point, the police report notes, Heimbach’s wife
got scared and ran away while [Matt Parrot] stayed behind watching the encounter on a box through a window. While doing this the box broke and he ran around the trailer to confront Matthew.
It’s like a fucking Coen brothers movie.
In the scuffle that ensued, the report continues, the lovely lad allegedly choked his father-in-law twice, leaving him briefly unconscious both times. Matthew H. fled to his trailer, where he was later arrested for the alleged assault on Matt Parrott and for allegedly assaulting his wife in front of their young children.
In case you’re having trouble following all this, one Twitterer has prepared a chart:
https://twitter.com/itsadamntragedy/status/973786599556354048
On the police report, all those involved declared that their occupation was “white naitonalist.”
When a reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center called papa Parrott to ask him about the whole weird thing, the not-so-proud papa-in-law bitterly declared that
I’m done. I’m out. SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.
He’s not the only one quitting, evidently. The TWP web site is currently down and the future of the group (or whatever emerges from all this mishegoss) is in doubt.
Over on Gab — the social media site that Twitter-banned Nazis have made their home — some mourned the TWP implosion.
A few hoped that something could be salvaged from the wreckage FOR THE SAKE OF THE (WHITE) CHILDREN.
Others gloated.
A parody TWP account offered a new slogan for the now apparently non-existent group.
Still others riffed on the same theme.
And of course there were the memes.
This fellow, meanwhile, knows who the real villain in all of this is: WHITE WOMEN.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that the current troubles of the Alt-Right have a lot less to do with female betrayal than they do with the fact that it’s a movement full of macho shithead losers overflowing with hate and rage and bitterness and ego.
Also the fact that people have been standing up to them every time they try to organize anything.
With all the horrific crap that’s going on these days, it’s sort of nice to see some of the world’s worst humans bickering and demoralized.
Gunsturbators?
@Female Y*d (I just realized your name is a slur through internet research)
Stop blaming poor people as a whole for Trump getting in. I’m poor in fact you could argue I’m at the financial level of these people you deem “white trash” and I know for a fact (at least where I live) most of the Trump voters were upper class. In fact a lot of Nazi /white supremacy ideology (bullshit) supporters where I live are upper class. Yeah I’m ticked off at your blatant classism. I didn’t get to vote FYI because I had sick family I had to look after if I got to I wouldn’t have voted for the Orange Menace
Mockery is one of the best tools we have at affecting the fascists that we won’t sway with arguments. It’s what’ll get them to crawl back under their rocks. These jerks don’t care about what the truth is and don’t care about evidence; they think too highly of themselves to consider that they might be wrong.
They’re happy for us to hate them – they want us to hate them. They want a nice clear enemy they can hate in return. They want us to be violent, so that they have an excuse for their own violence.
What they can’t stand, more than anything, is to be minimized. To be belittled and mocked, to not be taken seriously, to be worthy of ridicule. Their swollen pride won’t let that slide. Because of the Internet, their packs are big enough that they can tell themselves that they’re smart, they’re right, they’re serious thinkers. It makes it harder for ridicule to work. But if all society mocks them, openly? They’ll skulk back under their rocks and sneer at the world.
I think that’s the best weapon we have, anyways!
Scildfreja, delurking to say that you are a fine human being, and an inspiration. Cheers from the antipodes.
They also want to make this a fight us versus them.
And they want to make their us seem bigger than it is.
So if someone makes their group bigger than it is, they do their work for them.
“Ammosexual” is my choice.
@Surplus to Requirements: RE: ClearChannel in Chapter 11. I’ll have to read up on that. Independent and diverse radio voices…remember those? Seriously, I know they still exist, but not to the extent they used to.
@Scildfreja
Normally, I would agree with you but given that Richard Spencer and his band of neo-nazis have been, self-admittedly, getting shut down and disbanded largely thanks to Antifa, I’d say a healthy measure of violence is necessary as well.
Liberals spent years mocking conservatives to absolutely no effect (John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, etc). Nazis don’t need any excuse or to be hated to behave violently towards minorities. There were about 3,000 reported incidents of violence against minorities right after Trump’s election. Remember that Antifa in Charlottesville had to form a line in order to help a synagogue evacuate.
Mockery is a fine way to demoralize them, but it doesn’t work on all of them. In fact it seems to further infuriate a lot of them (remember, they like to paint liberals as out-of-touch elitists). So yeah, standing up to them and physically confronting them so they can’t recruit others is definitely necessary as well.
@Fluffly Spider
I hear ya. I got family that is White and upper class. Every single family gathering can be an utter torture. I’ve heard these people defend anything ranging from sending military forces to put down protesters to the forced sterilization of WoC as an “economic policy to decrease poverty”. Like I said, these people say things that would make Nazis blush.
@Diego Duarte
I know right?
I know one family that wishes skin bleaching was legalized so everyone can be “white and delightsome”. Yes that is a real phrase with a certain religious origin I won’t get into. Same family also has told me if I’d pull up my bootstraps and really work hard I’d be like them. Yeah a caretaking job and the only one helping my grandparents is not working hard at all.
@Fluffy: Ah, Mormons.
Oh, and in “I could have a heart attack and die of not surprise” news today: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ wife alleges widespread abuse in petition for restraining order
I’ve done door to door election persuasion and GOTV work and I’ve done single issue canvassing/fundraising all over Minnesota and one time in northern Virginia and once in rural Wisconsin. I’ve talked politics with people in neighborhoods with mansions that are almost castle sized, white rural areas, diverse urban areas, trailer parks, suburban developments, everywhere.
I’ve heard racist comments all sorts of places. But middle to upper middle class suburbs are where I’ve heard the worst of it. Hands down. In small towns, the middle to upper middle class neighborhoods have been more racist than the working class neighborhoods too. Although small towns have a little more racism parity in my experience.
In metro areas (and there are trailer parks in the suburbs) it’s working class white people who live in racially diverse neighborhoods, send their kids to racially diverse schools, have friends of all different races, have family members or partners of other races. It’s the upper class suburbanites who enclose themselves in mostly white bubbles. Just a year or so ago in Edina, one of the wealthiest cities in MN, just outside of south Minneapolis, some conservative student club got shut down by Edina High for putting videos on social media making derogatory comments about Somali people. Their irate privileged parents sued the school over it.
Here’s a some Edina real estate
https://www.zillow.com/edina-mn/
Not exactly a “trailer trash” area as one can see. Edina is notorious in the Twin Cities for being chock full of snobs and assholes. The joke is that it stands for Every Day I Need Attention. I’ve canvassed there a lot and that reputation is warranted. I’ve heard some very comments there and as someone going out for progressive causes, I’ve gotten more doors slammed in my face there than just about anywhere. There are some cool people there too, of course. Including an old friend of my mine who’s (horrors!) a male feminist. But now I’m rambling. Tl;dr the stereotype that racism and right wing beliefs is a white working class thing as opposed to partially a white person thing in general and partially a privileged white person thing just doesn’t hold up.
Scildfreja, I just want to say thank you for being exceptionally clear-sighted and brilliant as well as compassionate.
(I don’t know if Female Y*d has broken comment policy or not, but if they have I would really not be sorry to see them gone.)
@WWTH
This is literally the reason why those suburbs exist; they are a place where all the neighbours are guaranteed to be white, Protestant, and probably Anglo-Saxon, and your lily white children will never be exposed to any of those people. A good place to raise a family, yanno?
So never mistake this, any of you: You won’t find many swastika tattoos on shaven scalps in the suburbs of America, but the closets there have an awful lot of white sheets in them.
Yeah, it’s not called white flight for nothing!
I have gotten a lot more flattery than I deserve in this thread! Thank you all, @opposablethumbs, @FossilFishy, @Diego, @Who, @Floofyspider, @Katamount, @Ooble, @Shadowplay, @epitome, @WWTH, @Makroth. And anyone else I missed! You are good eggs.
The most racist people I know make twice that I do, and complain about their taxes a whole lot more. They also tend to have made bad financial decisions and have poured money into things they don’t need and can’t afford, assuming that momentary prosperity would be permanent. Anecdote only, but I find that overlap sorta interesting, at least.
Interesting anecdotes WWTH.
For the most part, I grew up around a lot of these people because my dad has a strong European descent and could afford to send us to private school. My mother raised us atheist and socialist-adjacent though, so we have a stronger set of morals and principles. And mind you, though this is Peru we’re talking about, I’ve seen the upper class White Latinos mirror the same exact attitudes I later found from upper class Whites in the US.
These people will rant about PoC and say the most awful things, without reservation, even if their maid, cook and chauffeur happen to be a PoC. Same thing goes for LGBTQIA people and vulnerable groups, in general.
With bigoted working class people I’ve at least had moderate success exchanging and debating ideas. Upper class Whites though? As you said, they will shut the door in your face, openly patronize you, or just flat out throw personal attacks at you to deflect from any point you try to raise, even if you’re family.
It was only the brogressives and Whites who were utterly clueless as to who were these 53% of college educated Whites that voted for Trump. Everybody else who’s ever hung around these people know EXACTLY who they were from the start.
Reading the same story on the other sites has had me saying “Wait, he beat up his wife’s stepfather? I thought he beat up the husband of the woman he was fucking. I’m so confused.” It simply did not occur to me that “his wife’s stepfather” and “the husband of the woman he was fucking” might be THE SAME PERSON. Once again, I have underestimated white supremacists.
I also thought “the stepdaughter” recording the attack and “the child under 16” referenced in the charges were the same person, but it appears “the stepdaughter” is Mrs. Heimbach and “the children” are the offspring of the fine Mr and Mrs Heimbach. I cannot even with these people.
@Valentin
It is reclaiming. Many Jewish people call themselves that similar to how black people call themselves the n-word.
Don’t lecture me.
@Scildfreja
Had mockery worked on conservatives, the US would be to the left of Venezuela.
Well, I see we have a replacement mrex.
PeeVee speaks true. Even if FY isn’t a sock, she’s still pretty much the same person.
What do you bet mrex and rubyhypatia and female y*d live eleven kilometers apart?
Fifty dolans.
I can’t believe we haven’t even talked about Mueller subpoenaing the Trump Organization today. I hope everyone connected to Trump who hasn’t flipped yet will be crawling in fear up to Mueller like
@weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee
Oh yeah, that too. It’s everything a gal could want atm. (Them all being put in maximum security prison with all their assets put into reputable charities would be even better but one step at a time). Oh just imagine how all of them must be feeling right now.
Female Y*d
Well good to see our not even trying to respond to Scildfreja response to your nonsense. But of course our not going to apologize or withdraw your claim, just try to pick another fight on another subject, because at the end of the day your a coward.