By David Futrelle
CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter, an amiable print-journalist-turned-TV-pundit, doesn’t seem like the sort of guy who would arouse a lot of public passion. But amongst those in Fox Nation and further right he’s hated for his (really rather mild) critiques of Donald Trump and his favorite TV network.
And so, as they so often do with many of the people they hate, Stelter’s anti-fans on the far right assume that he is both a radical and a Jew. The Right Wing blogger INCOG MAN has denounced him as a “total lefty idiot” and a “smiling Jew boy punk.”
On Gab, the Nazi-infested Twitter alternative, they are a little less polite, with one commenter classifying the CNN correspondent as “yet another Commie for Mommie Hillary” and another declaring him to be a “Conspiring Jew snake.”
Stelter, a moderate liberal who could only seem radical to someone whose mind is poisoned by Fox News or 4chan, was raised Methodist. But he got married to a Jewish woman in a Jewish ceremony, and the two are planning to raise their children Jewish. And while he hasn’t converted to Judaism, Stelter is now so steeped in Jewish culture that he has jokingly referred to himself as “Jew-ish.”
For some on the far right, that’s close enough to make it official.
“Brian Stelter is a Jew lover and most likely a k*ke himself,” a Gab user called Óðinn asserts.
Married to a k*kess and raises his kids Jewish. Says he was raised Methodist, but he looks ethnically Jewish. Lesson #1: If it looks like a Jew, acts like a Jew, and hangs around Jews, it’s most likely a Jew. Lesson #2: The media is comprised of mostly conniving k*kes who are either outright hooknosed rats, undercover Jews, or goys married to Jews.
Andrew Anglin, head boy at the Daily Stormer, has a rather more complex theory about Stelter. In a post today (link goes directly to the Daily Stormer) he ponders the marriage of this non-Jewish man with “one of the most Jewish faces I’ve ever seen” to a Jewish woman who Anglin believes is “completely out of his league.”
While Anglin thinks that Jamie Stelter, nee Shupak, a bubbly TV traffic reporter, “is not beautiful by any stretch, and … in fact very Jewish looking,” he’s also convinced that
her physical attractiveness level is quite obviously far beyond that of the gargoylesque Stelter, to the point where it is jarring to see them together as a couple.
Adding to Anglin’s puzzlement: Before he met his now-wife Jamie, “Stelter dated another Jewess, Nicole Lapin, who is also far outside of his own sex appeal range.”
Granted, Stelter isn’t what you’d call Mr. Glamour, but this seems a tad harsh. Regardless, Anglin sees this alleged huge discrepancy in what the pickup artists call Sexual Market Value between Stelter and his “Jewess” partners as something that needs an explanation, and he comes up with one. Well, two.
Either Stelter is a crypto-Jew or a partial Jew who ended up in a Christian family and then sought to reunite with the tribe, or he was picked out by the Jews to join the Jewish tribe because of his personal characteristics and behavior.
What Anglin is suggesting — as you’ll see more clearly in a moment — is that Stelter’s marriage could be, might be … part of a Jewish plot to incorporate the good DNA of successful goys into the Jewish bloodline. Naturally, Anglin is far more enamored of this explanation than he is of the boring old “crypto-Jew” thesis.
Western Jews have engaged in this practice of selective, strategic outbreeding for thousands of years, to the point where on average, less than half of their current DNA make-up comes from the Middle East.
For what it’s worth, while interfaith marriages between Jews and non-Jews have increased dramatically in recent years, historically they have been quite rare; a study of marriages in North America between 1654 and 1840 reported that only about 15 percent of the total were between Jews and Christians. The only “strategic outbreeding” going on is going on in Anglin’s fevered imagination.
Anglin continues:
Assuming Brian Stelter was a pure goy, he would be the perfect candidate for integration into the Jewish gene pool. He is relatively intelligent, he is ambitious and successful (he had started and sold a media company before he left college) …
If this all sounds a little bit gushing, especially coming from a Hitler-admiring neo-Nazin like Anglin, don’t worry, the anti-Semitism is about to return with a vengeance.
… and he is completely lacking in any kind of moral fortitude and is willing to tell destructive lies to millions of people for money without blinking or blushing.
Actually, that last bit is a much better description of Anglin’s idol Tucker Carlson than it is of Stelter. But never mind; Anglin isn’t done spinning out his theory just yet.
He is also physically repulsive.
And so you have the Jews sending him a series of Jewish women who are significantly beyond the level of attractiveness he would be able to achieve if he were simply out looking for women on his own. Eventually one of the women clicks, he is married, produces children, and now his genes belong to the Jewish tribe.
Wow. The people working for the Jewess Distribution Department of the Goy Gene Acquisition Division of the Worldwide Conspiracy of the Elders of Zion must be diabolically good at their jobs, because according to an article in Motherly, Brian asked Jamie out after seeing her do traffic reports on TV.
I mean, it’s kind of amazing that The Jews knew that by strategically placing her on a popular news program on a station reaching some two million homes she would be able to grab the attention of this one very particular viewer, and inspire him to tweet a note to the station’s morning news anchor asking if Jamie was single.
But hey, I’m sure that Anglin would readily admit that Jews are awfully clever, right?
Anglin finishes off his speculations with a nod to a couple of his favorite Nazis.
This process of absorbing the genetics of those they live amongst is fundamental to the Jewish people, and it is why while Adolf Hitler was referring to the Jews as a “race,” the more scientifically astute Alfred Rosenberg referred to them as a parasitic “anti-race.”
I don’t usually offer Truth Ratings for the nonsensical theories of neo-Nazis I write about on this blog, but I’m going to go ahead and give this one nine billion Pinocchios.
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Uhm, taking about villains and all the stuff its pointless.
Chris Oakley: Pie and Bakunin are no villains, they were angry with you. What they posted were perhaps not the nicest words, but even if one of them crossed a line, calling them villains is rubish.
Why are you so agresive? Why fight in a war (In the internet a war is quite easy to not engage in)
I assume Chris Oakley was referring to this:
But it seems like a perfectly reasonable comment to me, not least given Oakley’s previous history of breaching the comments policy.
@kupo: For the second time, PIE AND BAKUNIN STARTED IT. Also for the second time: Escalation was the only appropriate response to their attacks against me. Anything less or anything else would have made me look like a pushover. What was I supposed to do? Let it slide?
@Weatherby: Alright, that makes sense. I did imply that they were ignoring something.
However, I still stand by that and they still ignored everything else I said, and is continuing to ignore everything everyone else is saying because they desperately seem to want to just keep digging.
@Chris: Pull your head out of your ass. You started this, they got mad because you’ve done this shit repeatedly and they are (understandably) tired of it. You don’t “need” to escalate. You chose to do that. And you’re still choosing to do so.
You could have made the choice to listen the first few times this happened. You could have made the choice to change your behaviors after other people told you they were harmful. You could have even made the choice to simply walk away.
But you didn’t. You chose to escalate.
As someone said earlier: Dig up, stupid.
@ Chris Oakley
You were supposed to *read the comments policy*, realise you had broken it, and either apologise or just stop digging.
You don’t have to be more aggressive than anyone around you, this place doesn’t really work like that.
@Chris Oakley
You know we’ve all read the threads in quesand can determine for ourselves who started things, right? Just because you didn’t intend to say something harmful doesn’t mean you didn’t, and the excuse of not intending harm is pretty damn flimsy when people have been pointing this out to you repeatedly for at least months if not longer. You know people find this language problematic, you just don’t care and don’t want to change the way you speak. But speaking in this manner is an agression against mentally ill folks and you don’t seem to give a fuck about that.
Toxic masculinity, folx.
No, you were supposed to abide by the comments policy of this blog and, at the very least, apologize for your behavior.
Over/under on someone losing their shit if I say the words “toxic masculinity”?
Damn, kupo beat me to it
@Wetherby: There was nothing reasonable about it. Bakunin was making blatantly false accusations against me. End. Of. Story.
@Who: Let me repeat– PIE AND BAKUNIN STARTED IT.
@kupo: Fuck. Off. I’m not about to put up with another false accusation.
Woah, woah, woah.
Let’s de-escalate this right now and end this particular argument.
Chris, I’m sure that Anglin *could* benefit from therapy, in the sense that pretty much everyone could, or at least everyone who is willing to honestly examine themselves.
But stating that the way you did does seem to suggest that his toxic views are rooted in mental illness, which is just a step away from saying that Nazis are Nazis because they’re “crazy,” which would be not only wrong but a direct violation of the comments policy as well as an insult to people with mental illness and that’s why people were pissed off.
You absolutely did NOT have to escalate. So pull back or I’ll have to put you on moderation. And everyone else, let’s please drop this and move on.
Citizen Justin:
>>>>>I don’t know anything about this Brian Stelter, but this isn’t the first time someone has exhibited frothing heights of rage over him, as this video demonstrates. It gets even more intense halfway in…
Yes, I don’t get it either. The guy’s a journalist. Even if he were literally the world’s worst journalist, it would hardly justify such rage. I suppose they’re annoyed at his “race treason” for marrying a Jew or something.
Suppose the Jooooz *were* running this secret, world-wide match-making network? Er… SO WHAT?! “We will get this goy *married*! Muhahahaha!”. Some conspiracy.
I feel left out, however. How come the cabal isn’t sending a never-ending stream of women *my* way?!
I don’t think it’s helpful to jump all over those who suggest assholes should get therapy. Not everyone who sees a therapist has a mental illness. Being an asshole may not be a mental illness, but I think therapy would actually be good for a lot of people who are assholes and help them not be assholes.
Many people without a diagnosed mental illness get therapy for things like anger issues or coping with stress or grief. Some people just need help with resolving conflicts. I went to therapy for three years to recover from traumatic experiences and emotional neglect as a child that led to low self esteem and chronic procrastination as an adult. To me jumping on people who suggest jerks should see a therapist because “asshole is not a mental illness” actually harms those who see therapists for reasons other than mental illness because it assumes everyone who needs therapy is mentally ill. Therapy is for everyone who needs it.
Unfortunately unrepentant assholes like Anglin and the other douchebags David writes about often get positive reinforcement and support for being terrible people from other terrible people and have no incentive to improve. You have to acknowledge there’s a problem and want to do better for therapy to help and these people simply don’t.
Edited to add that I’ve been working on this reply most of the afternoon without refreshing the page and didn’t see David’s reply until after I posted. I don’t support seeing assholes as “crazy” or attribute their asshole attitudes towards mental illness.
I think that is a very good point.
Anyway, looking at these vile nazi comments above, it really feels like this particular brand of assholery comes from taking away all the wrong lessons from animal documentaries and basically thinking you can breed humans into a better race as you would pets and livestock.
And as for Stelter being with a woman who’s better looking than him, this is neither new nor unusual, because a great deal of women are socialized from an early age to learn to look past unattractive looks and give men a chance anyway to far greater extent than men are socialized to do the same to unattractive women. There’s no secret conspiracy needed.
Kubon37 –
No disagreement, but it’s wasting your breath with the “Stormer” guys.
To put it crudely, if you act like an asshole but *know* you’re doing it and want to stop, you are not much of an asshole. “Where there is shame, there may yet be virtue”, said Dr. Johnson.
These guys on the other hand are *proud* of being assholes. After all, except for being assholes – or as they put it, brave racial warriors – what other achievement have they got?
Kobun37 –
Also, it depends what you mean by “mental illness”. Being a jerk and wanting to stop being one usually means you’re not psychotic, but rather have a personality disorder.
Is the latter a “mental illness”? On the one hand, yes – it is due to mental issues that are pathological and harm the person. On the other hand, no – it is not what is commonly known as “crazy”, i.e., it does not involve delusions, hallucinations, etc.
“Mental illness”, like almost any complex concept, is not black and white.
Paradoxical intention –
The answer to your cartoon’s question is simple. Asimov noted that when you have some achievements, you’re proud of them. When you have none, there’s always your race, or sex, or religion.
This is true even physically. A good physique hardly determines one’s worth, but it is an achievement to maintain it. An old joke defined an “Aryan” as someone that’s tall like Goebbles, thin like Goering, manly like Roehm, muscular like Himmler, intelligent like Ribbentrop, brave like Hitler, and is named Rosenberg.
Not one of the leading Nazis, Hitler himself included, were remotely like the “ideal” Aryan they praised to the skies.
The behavior (specifically the tendency of the well-to-the-right people to pick their target and then launch into a group attack hoping to bring that target down – for what purpose…if this were a nat’geo animal documentary the whole thing would culminate in the predators descending upon their prey and EATING THEM, but I think we’d have heard about it already if extra-to-the-right people were out there cannibalizing moderates and liberals…maybe…) that Anglin and those like him on gab frequently display is kind of like they’re a bunch of hyenas. Circling around and screeching, putting anyone who is *not* one of them on notice that they are there, that they have complaints and are angry that nobody else really cares. It’s like all of their *shock**gasp**gamechanging**conspiracy-revealed-to-them-is-true** announcements and mutterings amongst themselves are understood by the rest of us to be the utter balderdash and poppycock that clearly, these repetitive fill-in-the-blank-style proclamations are.
Always the same, these assholes never change.
I do, when ‘those who suggest’ do so in a way that link the asshole to mental illness and thereby link mental illness to being an asshole. Even more so when they continue to do so after being told many times that it violates the comments policy.
D’yever wonder if all of this is just some exercise in making life more exciting than it really is? Angelin sounds like he’s describing Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Thing. I mean, if he wants to live in some kind of sci-fi thriller, he could take a trip to Antarctica and wait around for any alien spacecraft to crash-land and get frozen.
@msexceptiontotherule
I resent that remark.
It’s fascinating. They see this rather average-looking middle-aged guy as ‘physically repulsive’, and his rather average-looking wife as miles out of his reach.
They’re just a mess, aren’t they? In addition to being virulent anti-Semites, I mean.
@Paradoxical Intention, @Cat Mara
The chin comment in that panel is a bit of additional subtlety by the writer – Garth Ennis is from Northern Ireland and Steve Dillon is from Luton (poor bugger).
Chinless over here is a wee bit of shorthand for overprivileged, coming from the aristocracy’s tendancy to have weak chins.
I always thought it were a neat little nod, anyways.
Yes, that’s exactly how I interpreted it, and I suspect most British people would read it along those lines too. Why pick on that particular body part if they weren’t specifically satirising the whole notion of the chinless wonder?
@Katamount:
If we were talking about less harmful conspiracy theories, I’ve often thought that that is part of the motivation. You get to live in a plot which could be lifted from a Hollywood thriller, and you get to play the part of the hero who bravely warns the sheeple who are too dumb to see through the official lies. But people often suffer for their belief in conspiracy theories, e.g. by becoming estranged from friends and family, so it seems there’s a bit more to it than simple LARPing.
But in the case of Anglin and other nazis, these are people who are hoping for actual genocide. So let’s not make excuses for them.
@Katamount, Moggie:
Fred Clark over at Slacktivist has touched on that sort of line a number of times, describing a lot of the ‘Satanic baby-killers’ sort of conspiracy theory as basically ‘invitations to LARP with the world’s worst GMs’. Along with ‘making your opponents so cartoonishly evil that you can ignore all your own sins as minor in comparision and so still see yourselves as the good guys’.
Once you’ve dehumanized your opponents like that the actual genocide angle isn’t necessarily far off. We’ve already had far right folks talking about wanting to kill all liberals as traitors (while loudly trying to convince others that this is what liberals want for them), and that sort of loudmouth has been getting far more mainstreamed over the last several years.