No Images? Click here Friend of the Fringe (FoF) Andy Campbell looked at all the trolls and Nazis who were pretty stoked about five journalists being gunned down in Maryland on Thursday.“Dead journalists can’t spread leftist propaganda,” one 8chan user wrote.On Twitter, white supremacist podcaster Spectre made fun of an intern at the Capital Gazette who was begging for help during the shooting. “I wonder if it’s only journalists or if any real people got hurt,” he wrote.And Trump superfan and white nationalist Nick Fuentes retweeted this meme about journalists dying:None of this is new, exactly. White supremacists in America have always enjoyed talking about killing journalists. In William Luther Pierce’s 1978 novel “The Turner Diaries” — a white supremacist tome adored by violent racists like Timothy McVeigh — an important part of the narrative revolves around the “Day of the Rope,” in which journalists and other so-called race traitors are dragged from their homes and hung en masse.These days online, the alt-right loves to talk about “Day of the Brick,” when they’ll smash journalists over the heads with, well, bricks. On a recent episode of his podcast, crazy-eyed neo-Nazi Mike Enoch named your dear Fringe correspondents as two journalists deserving of the brick. We’re honored, Mike.This is all exacerbated by a president who loves to call journalists “enemies of the people.” That kind of language, of course, can really stir up some violent feelings among his supporters. Let’s not forget about one T-shirt frequently seen at Trump campaign rallies: the ones that read “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.” Here’s a Confederate flag fanboy wearing one of those shirts in Gettysburg last year, where your Fringe correspondent walked up to him and took this photo:Anyway, a lot of the attention this week focused on alt-lite grifter Milo Yiannopoulos, who a few days before the shooting made headlines when he texted some reporters that he hoped “vigilante squads” would “start gunning journalists down on sight.” After the shooting Thursday, which left five journalists dead, we emailed Milo to see if he still wanted more dead journalists. He backpedaled, saying that his call to kill people like us was all just lulz. A troll.It wasn’t a troll, and as payback, journalists should maybe consider giving Milo as little press as possible. The man, after all, has gone from being a special guest on Bill Maher to hawking vitamin supplements with Alex Jones on InfoWars.Just gonna leave this here for the honorable senator from Texas:Cuck o' the WeekMatthew Heimbach, the former leader of the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Workers Party, recently got out of jail after serving a 38-day service for violating his probation.Heimbach was on probation for shoving a black protestor at a Trump rally in 2016. But he landed in the clink after flying into a psychopathic rage in his grimy trailer in Indiana in March. The details are Jerry Springer sordid. Heimbach was sleeping with party spokesman Matt Parrott’s wife, who is also Heimbach’s step-mother-in-law. Parrott caught the couple in flagrante delicto while spying on them outside the trailer on top of a box, which collapsed under Parrott’s weight. A confrontation ensued that resulted in Heimbach choking Parrott unconscious and beating up his own spouse, who is also Parrott’s adopted daughter. Police arrived after Parrott fled to a nearby Walmart.Heimbach cucked Parrott as badly as a man can be cucked. But it seems jail has turned the cucker into the cuckee, as it has many wannabe toughs who land behind bars.“I’m not involved in any politics right now,” Heimbach told Talking Points Memo.So what is he doing?“Catching up on Season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale,” he told the SPLC.Cuck! Cuck! Cuck!Blood and SoiledTo understand the dangers posed by today’s far-right extremists, we need to listen to them. Each week, the Angry White Men blog highlights a snippet of conversation from an “alt-right” podcast to show you how fascists and racists really think. Don't say we didn't warn you, America….On the latest episode of the League of the South’s podcast “Stormfront Action,” Jason Kessler, the violent dunderhead who organized the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer, announced that he had made progress in securing a permit for an anniversary rally to be held in front of the White House this August. Kessler is billing this event as a “white civil rights” rally and clearly views himself and his racist compatriots as victims. Or at least that’s the image he wants to project. As he told “Father Francis,” the show’s host: “Charlottesville is clearly violating all kinds of rights. It’s violating the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment — [and] probably some amendments I’ve never even heard of before.” Kessler complained about being (correctly) tarred as “far-right” and a “Nazi” and lamented that the alt-right’s “enemies” are refusing to have a “conversation” with them.A reminder: The alt-right is a white supremacist movement whose adherents have waged vicious doxing and harassment campaigns against journalists (especially Jewish ones), killed and wounded scores of people, and openly bragged about wanting to run down protesters prior to the very event Jason Kessler organized last August during what they dubbed the “Summer of Hate.”The time to sit down for a civil discussion with advocates of violent ethnic cleansing is never.But Kessler can’t fathom why he and others racists and fascists are so universally reviled. In a moment that perfectly captured the tone deafness and lack of remorse typified by alt-right and old-school white nationalists, Father Francis told Kessler, “I see Charlottesville as the most important, positive thing that happened to white nationalism since I’ve known about it.”Because of Charlottesville, a counterprotester was murdered, two police officers died in a helicopter crash, multiple white nationalists now face criminal charges and civil suits, and the Daily Stormer had its domain repeatedly pulled.Very few prominent white nationalists have expressed any desire to attend “Unite the Right II,” and other groups, including Father Francis’ own League of the South, are barred from participating in future armed rallies in Charlottesville. The alt-right re-enacted “Triumph of the Will” at UVA and gained worldwide infamy for it. But Kessler is pushing ahead just the same.Hey, maybe he’ll be able to get Donald Trump to show up this time.HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which explains how your data is used and shared. Learn More.White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues.Did a friend send you this? Subscribe to HuffPost Fringe. Want more? Check out The Morning Email.©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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