Fascist infighting: Milo publishes Richard Spencer slur-filled rant

[ponderingturtle]

Co-Sign. Basically, he's the guy saying "What? White nationalists? Those guys aren't a factor. Now let's all attack Leslie Jones with racial slurs because she was in the latest Ghostbusters movie. Isn't it weird how these trannies and blacks seem to be taking over everything and pushing you out, my cis white male friends?"

Exactly how could anyone possibly think that was racist of him?

 

[Venom]

Spencer would be the one organizing and participating in the public lynchings.

Yiannopoulos would be in the audience.

 

[Trebuchet]

Spencer would be the one organizing and participating in the public lynchings.

Yiannopoulos would be in the audience.

Or the victim, complete with yellow star armband.

 

[Thermal]

The leaders all share in blame. No matter how they fire up the latent racists, they are firing them up. But the followers feeling normalized are the bigger problem. All the Milos in the world do nothing without a willing army.

Still, it warms the heart to see that these twats go to war with each other by...repeating the words that come out of their mouths. Not by exposing deep secrets or something dignified. Just what they openly say.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Or the victim, complete with yellow star armband.

Pink Triangle surely.

 

[Trebuchet]

Pink Triangle surely.

Yes, thought of that after I posted.

 

[Minoosh]

I want to make this my ringtone, or use it in place of one of those alarm thingies you can use to scare the **** out of an attacker.

What the hell was he so mad about anyway?

 

[Horatius]

What the hell was he so mad about anyway?

People exposing the fundamental nature of his movement.

 

[Dr. Keith]

I am ashamed by how much I enjoyed some of those video mash up with Spencer getting punched. Good tunes and good timing were just too alluring.

 

[Thermal]

I am ashamed by how much I enjoyed some of those video mash up with Spencer getting punched. Good tunes and good timing were just too alluring.

The one set to Hollaback Girl was my favorite

 

[dudalb]

Yes, thought of that after I posted.

I love to annoy Neo Nazis by reminding them of Ernst Rohm..

 

[dudalb]

I think groups like the one described in this article are more dangerous then more obvious and high profile ones like Spencer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...ing-in-plain-sight/ar-BBWsMjf?ocid=spartandhp

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Ironically enough, Milo seemed to have struggled to solidify his place among the alt-right, seemingly because many saw his an an unreliable, opportunistic grifter that wasn't committed to the cause.

He's also gay and Jewish, which I imagine doesn't sit well with a not inconsiderate portion of his target audience.

 

[Mumbles]

He's also gay and Jewish, which I imagine doesn't sit well with a not inconsiderate portion of his target audience.

Well, yes, the comments section in his "The Alt-Right are just cheerful happy kids!" essay was filled with "alt-right" folks carefully explaining that they wanted to gas him for being gay and jewish. The fact that he's as obvious a grifter as, say, Candace Owens doesn't help matters.

 

[varwoche]

Prediction: Milo will soul search, undergo a political conversion, write a book, go on an apology tour, and he will still be full of bs though it will be less hateful.

 

[Mumbles]

Prediction: Milo will soul search, undergo a political conversion, write a book, go on an apology tour, and he will still be full of bs though it will be less hateful.

And *may* be accepted by mainstream press for it. He has long claimed that he had been sexually assaulted as a teen by a priest (which, for reference, may have happened, and he has my sympathy for that if it's true), and right before his big break as a champion of Gamergate he was openly contemptuous of gamers, so he's perfectly willing to change his position for money and fame.

For the moment it's not working well - he got banned from a furry convention because people flat out don't want him around, and his numerous hate/harrassment campaigns are going to be tough to overcome - and outright impossible for people who aren't straight white guys. But he certainly has some of that audience (Bill Maher, who I brought up before, being a great example - recall that he was set to be the keynote speaker at CPAC right up until that Joe Rogan interview came up again), and there's a good deal of access that comes with that.

 

[p0lka]

I have to agree with some small part of Milo's gripe. It is a bit silly that he was deplatformed from pretty much every social media site while people like Spencer remain online.

All these folks should have been exiled to Gab-land years ago.

I don't agree with his politics at all, but I don't get why he suddenly became deplatformed just because he talked about being abused as a minor and being ok with it, personal experience is personal experience after all. Was he supposed to lie about his own experiences?

 

[Mumbles]

I don't agree with his politics at all, but I don't get why he suddenly became deplatformed just because he talked about being abused as a minor and being ok with it, personal experience is personal experience after all. Was he supposed to lie about his own experiences?

It's less that, and more that he

a) stated that it's perfectly fine for men to have sex with underaged boys (meaning 12-13 years old);

b) shielded the identities of men that he had supposedly seen molesting "very young" boys (strongly implying well below 12-13 years old).

 

[TurkeysGhost]

I don't agree with his politics at all, but I don't get why he suddenly became deplatformed just because he talked about being abused as a minor and being ok with it, personal experience is personal experience after all. Was he supposed to lie about his own experiences?

Milo was banned from twitter prior to his pedo comments, after a history of reprimands for harassment. Whipping up social media harassment campaigns was his thing, with Gamergate being his big debut as a right-wing hero. He was permanently banned during the all-female Ghostbusters backlash for racist and sexist tweets he sent to Leslie Jones, a black actress.

His benefactors didn't drop him until the whole pedophile interview, and I have a feeling we aren't getting the whole story. I suspect that was just a convenient excuse to get rid of someone they didn't see as valuable anymore. Milo had essentially a single benefactor, the Mercer family via Breitbart, so his career was largely beholden to their whims.

So yeah, his comments about being sexually groomed by an older man is probably among his least despicable. I can easily see these comments as someone trying to rationalize his own sexual exploitation. Then again, empathy isn't really what the far-right is known for, so I'm not holding my breath for a nuanced take on this.

 

[Donal]

His benefactors didn't drop him until the whole pedophile interview, and I have a feeling we aren't getting the whole story. I suspect that was just a convenient excuse to get rid of someone they didn't see as valuable anymore. Milo had essentially a single benefactor, the Mercer family via Breitbart, so his career was largely beholden to their whims.

I've mentioned this sort of thing before. A lot of these grifters are competing for the same sugar daddies. Whether it be a PAC, a "civic organization", or directly from the sugar daddies, they need to keep someone in power pleased. Once Trump came to power, they probably hit the point of diminishing returns. They are going to cut each other's throats for those dollars. And, then you have to ones who are in it for the ideology.

Candace Owens and Tomi Lahren got into it not too long ago. Dave Rubin has never been fully embraced by the alt-right. Ben Shapiro has been throwing shade at some of his contemporaries. The tap is getting closed an d they are all still thirsty. Outrageous stunts ain't gonna cut it any more (still encouraged though). You have to prove yourself as the one true real one. That means taking out the competition.

Still waiting on the Charlie Kirk vs Candace Owens blow up.