By David Futrelle
As The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer noted on Twitter earlier today, the right-wing fake-news site The Gateway Pundit “is extremely into calling the caravan migrants ‘virile.'”
Indeed, in four separate posts on the caravan of migrants and refugees currently making its way from Honduras to the United States, the Gateway Pundit writer Cristina Laila has tried to present the caravan as consisting mostly of men she describes variously as “military-aged, virile male Hondurans,” “military-aged, virile mostly Honduran males” and “military-aged virile males.”
Laila insists that “the women and children [in the caravan] are being used as media props and human shields,” obscuring the fact that this is a manly man “invasion.”
This is hardly the first time that paranoid racists have portrayed young male refugees of color as sexual interlopers trying to “invade” mostly white nations. For the past several years, similar complaints about “virile” male refugees of African and Middle-Eastern descent have been all over Twitter.
And where Twitter trolls go, elected GOP officials are sure to follow. Indeed, in remarks during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on refugees in 2015, California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher raised the specter that “trainloads” of “very virile young men” from the Middle East were trying to sneak into Western Europe by pretending to be “desperate refugees,” something he said was “frankly very upsetting to me.”
But if you want to see the far-right in full psychosexual meltdown over too-sexy refugees, you have to turn to the virtual pages of The Daily Stormer, which regularly portrays brown and black refugees as sex-crazed “rapefugees” bent on the sexual conquest of white women.
While the Stormer’s attacks on refugees drip with racist hatred, the site’s writers direct much of their vitriol at white women whom the Stormer deems insufficiently racist towards the non-white “invaders.” As the Stormer sees it, this friendliness towards refugees is the result of the illicit hunger of white women for hunky men of color. Not that anyone at the Stormer would phrase it quit that way. They are a bit more, er, salty.
In a 2015 post titled “The Greasiest Cuckolding of All,” Daily Stormer head boy Andrew Anglin declared that “[t]he White European female’s craving for Black dick threatens to collapse civilization itself.”
And he was just getting started.
White women across the Western world have been put in control of Western societies, and they are using this control to ensure an endless supply of Black and Arab men to satisfy their depraved sexual desires. …
White women – an undetermined percentage of them, but apparently most – are calling for Europe to be flooded with Black and Arab men so they can have sex with them. They are using the resources of White men to feed and clothe these objects of their sexual desire.
German women regularly get all up on men in refugee camps and attempt to have sex with them publicly.
Angela Merkel is said to require “dicks numbering in the hundreds per week” to satisfy her terrible urges.
Psychologists are uncertain about the nature of the drive of these White women to engage in bestial sex with unevolved monkeymen, but the running theory is that they do this because White men have become cowardly f**gots, incapable of arousing sexual desire in their own females.
He goes on like this for several hundred more words, but I think you’ve probably gotten the gist of his argument already.
“Black dick” — and brown dick, and indeed virtually every kind of dick that is not of a predominantly pinkish hue — has loomed large in the imaginations of white racists for centuries. Sometimes the white obsession with black and brown sexuality was about fear: Lynchings of alleged, usually falsely accused, black “rapists” were as much about reassuring sexually paranoid whites of their cultural virility as they were about terrorizing the black population.
Other times it was mostly about titillation — as in the countless mid-twentieth century movies and pulp novels about “taboo” interracial relationships. Most of the time, though, fear and fascination were so intertwined it was impossible to separate the two emotions; for countless vivid and horrifying examples, see the pop culture imagery of the “black brute” posted online by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University.
Now the Gateway Pundit is directing a very similar sort of mingled fear and fascination at the, er, “military-aged, virile mostly Honduran males” who make up part of the caravan marching north through Mexico, still more than a thousand miles from the US border. As the caravan heads further north, I suspect, the uglier the rhetoric on this side of the border will get, and the more we’ll hear about the allegedly dangerous “virility” of young Honduran males.
So congratulations to the Gateway Pundit’s Cristina Laila — for being many decades behind the times, and yet somehow also ahead of the curve.
EDITED TO ADD:
And in related news, Lou Dobbs tries to pronounce the name of a Mexican city.
The Mexican City of… WHAT?
😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CXmQR4wf3H— Laura Martínez ™️ (@miblogestublog) October 25, 2018
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I love how the sum total of all these people’s insecurities boils down to something like “White Men Can’t Schtupp.”
Maybe, if they focused their energies on actually constructive things, they might find they suddenly get a lot more action in the sack.
Sometime Anglin get’s so offensively ridiculous and hateful, it triggers my POE alert. Is this guy really always serious or just overly dramatic to better drive his “point”.
Angela Merkel is said to require “dicks numbering in the hundreds per week” to satisfy her terrible urges.
Seriously, who has the time? And if she did have that much sex, surely she wouldn’t have any time at all for literally ANYthing else.
@Uly,
I mean, it sounds like he’s attacking Merkel with the worst rumors ever attached to Catherine the Great, but that’s stupid because Catherine the Great earned her moniker for a reason.
epronovost, Anglin is a troll who’s also a true believer — i.e., he doesn’t believe or expect anyone else to believe the stuff he made up about Merkel, but his racism and misogyny are utterly sincere.
I can’t help it, I just did the math. I knew better, but my brain just kept churning out the numbers.
There are seven days in a week. Angela Merkel presumably sleeps eight hours a day and spends another two hours eating, pooping, washing her hands, and so on. That leaves fourteen hours per day – or ninety-eight hours a week – for other activities. Well, let’s just round it up to a hundred.
If she was fucking even one hundred guys every week, they’d literally be lined up around the block, night and day. This wouldn’t be a rumor, it’d be verifiable fact. Those lines would be on freaking Google Maps.
And I must say, it wouldn’t be very good sex for either party. Very industrialized. I’ve heard of quickies, but this is ridiculous!
Can’t these people at least make their ridiculous rumors realistic? Instead of “hundreds a week!!!” try “dozens a month!!!!” – it still sounds bad, but it’s at least dimly plausible. (Wait, why am I giving these dipshits advice?)
@David Futrelle
It’s also my impression, but like Heartiste, for example, he does seems to rely a lot on “poetic language” to express his filth, probably in a desperate attempt to reassure himself about his superiority. Beauvoir was right when she said there is no man more hateful, stupid and violent than one that is anxious about his virility.
1. I grew up in the German city with the highest migrant percentage. Somehow all my experiences with men being dicks (cat calling, assault, etc.) was at the hands of white men. Never brown men. It’s the same for my mum. Our relatives horror stories about what life in the city supposedly is like are absolutely infuriating.
2. Why are these dipshits so keen to admit that they’re shit sexual partners? If they new what they were about they wouldn’t be so afraid of competition.
Alt-Nazi Richard Spencer abused his wife. Quelle suprise.
I always found it hilarious that bigoted white people seem to inadvertently make the targets of their hate sound a billion times more exciting or cool than they actually are.
They have Jewish people become these super vampire wizards with vast wealth and power who rule the world.
They have men of color (Black, Latinx, Mid-Eastern, etc.) as these awesomely athletic sex gods with big virile penises.
….and so on….
It’s like White Supremacists are making a Freudian slip, showing the world the true root of their bigotry….Feelings of inadequacy.
“But if you want to see the far-right in full psychosexual meltdown over too-sexy refugees…”
Too-sexy refugees made me laugh; “don’t let them in; too sexy” with Zoolander pouts and all.
“Virile” young men are at extreme risk in war zones for their being forced to fight i.e. drafted (Vietnam) or being killed extra-judicial style for their potential to fight (Srebrenica).
I don’t recall Canadians recoiling in horror at virile young men heading north to avoid getting shot for something they could not believe in; most of them got assist to live and hide.
To be a woman or child in a war zone is even more hell.
We are at a time of the highest amount of displaced people in history because of collapsed or fragile states or civil war–all push factors that cause them to flee. Some of them are going to be physically capable adults.
Trump’s answer is to stop helping fragile states from collapsing by pulling aid. That’s a classic Jasper’s beard scenario right there.
@Uly
It’s amazing that Angela Merkel can get anything done at all (washing her hair or opening a can of soup or shining her shoes), let alone run a country! Her sexual appetite may be off the charts — and this is in spite of the fact that she is most likely postmenopausal and thus her urges have diminished — but her ability to organize her life and her work is beyond phenomenal and probably supernatural (in a good way).
I’m thinking that once she turns 65 (next year!), Merkel can probably cut back to a dozen lovers a week, freeing up all kinds of time. At that point, she’ll be quite capable of running the UN and the world — and doing an excellent job at both.
Angela Merkel is said [by me, Andrew Anglin, a person who thinks it’s a good idea to be a Nazi] to require “dicks numbering in the hundreds per week” to satisfy her terrible urges. [I say this because I have absolutely no understanding of mathematics or how much work goes into running a country or even the fact that genitals can become sore and inflamed and bloody and infected after a certain amount of friction, and that amount of friction is far, far, far less than would occur when having sex hundreds of times per week.]
Psychologists are uncertain [I consulted zero psychologists in “writing” this article] about the nature of the drive of these White [I capitalize this word to emphasize my point that being pale-skinned (like me!) is the only right way to be] women to engage in bestial [Hey, I just thought I’d throw this in here, ignoring the fact that in the old South, white owners had sex with their black slaves all the time] sex with unevolved monkeymen [Ha, ha, no, I don’t really believe in evolution, but it’s fun to throw around racist words], but the running theory is that they do this because White men have become cowardly f**gots [Not me! Certainly not me! The ladies love me — or at least they should], incapable of arousing sexual desire in their own females [Again, I’m not talking about myself — or my own females!].
There are ~7000 people at the most in the caravan. That’s approximately how many people move to Dallas every two weeks. If every last person in the caravan stopped and settled in Dallas, literally nobody except their immediate neighbours would even notice a difference. Invasion my ass.
@Spukikitty
The flip side of that is it makes painting a swastika on a synagogue (e.g.) an act of heroic bravery rather than contemptible bullying.
@ Rabid Rabbit. Re Catherine the Great. At least Anglin left out the bit about the horse.
Is it just me or does the guy have a “what white nonsense is this?” expression on his face in that cover image? ?
@Cat Mara
Yes!
And is it just me or does the guy look like James Baldwin? (I’d post a photo if I had more time.)
And the expression on the woman’s face is shy and timid.
I have a feeling that the artist empathized with the characters. Maybe the author did too!
I’m thoroughly grossed out by every bit of the Daily Shitter I mean Stormer..
There’s this level of extraness and repulsion I get from this from the fact those immigrants are escaping war zones and disaster you know the kind I highly doubt any writer at Neo Nazi bullshit central have ever been in.
@Cat Mara
Yes I did notice that. 😀 He is not having Haypile Harriet’s shit today
@Kat:
I’m seeing it… or maybe James Baldwin just made the “what white nonsense is this?” face a lot? ?
@Cat Mara
Ha, ha — I’m sure he did. I was also thinking of his eyes.
@Everyone
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@Kat:
Yay! Props to the police for acting on this, though it seems the guy was already on their radar for being a despicable piece of shit.
This is just to say that, thanks to the reports quoted in this article, I may never be able to read the word “virile” again without throwing up in my mouth a little. Much like how I can no longer see the phrase, “she is all grown up” without a wave of nausea. Thanks, Daily Mail!
(Goes off to read Edward Gorey’s The Curious Sofa ?)
I’m very concerned, with all this violent rhetoric, including Trump spreading the lie that there’s Middle Eastern terrorists in the group, that the military is going to be ordered to shoot into the crowd.
I like the use of “is said to” as in “Merkel is said to require…” something which isn’t physically or intinerarily (if that’s a word) possible.
I’ve no doubt it’s true: she IS said to require that.
But only by the OP, and that tells us all we need to know about him.
Andrew Anglin is said to require up to eight Dora the Explorer pullups per day.
…I guess we’ve arrived at the point in history where truth is whatever anyone says it is, and sources are not needed to verify claims.
So if Nazi white men are sexually inadequate and helpless before the flood of virile, military-aged brown men, remind us again why nature ordained them to be at the top of the hierarchy? What are they superior at, other than whinging in front of a keyboard?
Anyway, I thought Nazis viewed virility and rapiness as positive masculine traits. Funny how these suddenly become bad and scary. things when brown-skinned men possess them. It’s almost as if they don’t enjoy the prospect of having their boundaries invaded without their consent. My heart bleeds.