Verified Hate: August 2019 Edition
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, August 21, 2019
Dayna Steele is a motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, and the 2018 Democrat nominee for the 36th congressional district in Texas. The Houston Chronicle endorsed her. She has a verified account on Twitter. She is not a fringe figure.
She recently tweeted:
Ms. Steele locked her Twitter account after she was criticized. She deleted the original tweet because, she claimed, “ignorance and hate do not recognize irony.”
Joanna Schroeder is a widely published author who postd a lengthy Twitter thread advising mothers to “stalk our sons’ social media” to prevent them from being drawn into the Alt Right. She told mothers to watch liberal comedians with their sons and explain the importance of challenging power structures and “punching up.” She accurately noted that “journos [are] doing the real work on the subject.” (Comedian Sam Hyde, who was accused of being “Alt Right,” lost his television show after a hostile news article.)
It’s a system I believe is purposefully created to disillusion white boys away from progressive/liberal perspectives.
First, the boys are inundated by memes featuring subtly racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic jokes.
Being kids, they don’t see the nuance & repeat/share.
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
The second step is the boys consuming media with the “people are too sensitive” and “you can’t say anything anymore!” themes.
For these boys, this will ring true – they’re getting in trouble for “nothing”.
This narrative allows boys to shed the shame – replacing it w/anger.
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
And who is their anger with?
Women, feminists, liberals, people of color, gay folks, etc etc. So-called snowflakes.
And nobody is there to dismantle the “snowflake” fallacy.
These boys are being set up – they’re placed like baseballs on a tee and hit right out of the park.
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
These are often boys from progressive or moderate families – but their online behavior & viewing habits are often ignored.
Here’s an early red flag: if your kid says “triggered” as a joke referring to people being sensitive, he’s already being exposed & on his way.
Intervene!
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
Propaganda makes extreme points of view seem normal by small amounts of exposure over time – all for the purpose of converting people to more extremist points of view.
Use my baseball analogy, if you want. Tell your son that he doesn’t have to be anybody’s fool.
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
You can also watch political comedy shows with him, like Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj. Talk about what makes their jokes funny – who are the butt of the jokes? Do they “punch up” or down?
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) August 13, 2019
Upworthy posted the entire thread and called it a must read.
Professor Nelson Flores at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, who researches “race, language & bilingual education,” tweeted:
The Founding Fathers were white nationalist terrorists.
Until we reckon with that fact we will never be able to move forward.
— Nelson Flores (@nelsonlflores) August 6, 2019
Let’s break this apart a bit.
The Founding Fathers were nationalists in that they wanted to create a new nation independent from Great Britain.
They were also all white men — not by accident but by design. They wanted to create a white nation.
— Nelson Flores (@nelsonlflores) August 6, 2019
At least Professor Flores has a more honest view about the Founders’ racial convictions than many “conservatives.”
An article at Tzedek called “White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture” sparked the hashtag #CharitySoWhite. Whites who work at charities devoted to helping non-whites are still guilty of structural racism.
On a cultural level, there is the pervasive assumption in charities that because you’re ‘nice people’ doing ‘good work’ that you’re exempt from structural discrimination or unconscious bias. #CharitySoWhite
— Samir Jeraj 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 (@sajeraj) August 20, 2019
Glad that #CharitySoWhite is trending. It’s about time charities faced up to their tokenistic diversity measures & lack of staff retention or senior staff mentorship & progressn for POC people. Also stop asking for degrees where the job doesn’t require such specialist knowledge. https://t.co/QxXLXZIl7M
— Priscilla Eyles (@PriscillaEyles) August 20, 2019
Film maker Michael Moore tweeted:
1. Nearly all gun murders are committed by one gender. Let’s study why that is.
2. The vast majority of guns are owned by white people. Why is that? Most of these white ppl live in nearly all-white suburban/rural areas which have little or no crime. Why do they need so many guns?
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 16, 2019
3. Why are most of these school shootings & other mass shootings committed by young white males?
4. Why, when the media covers gun violence in our black communities, do they never speak of it as the result of millions of African Americans still forced to live…
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 16, 2019
…And when white men see other white men crushed economically, do they fear they may be next? So the frightened, scared man needs a gun. Yet, women — who have a REAL reason to be afraid in this society — carry hardly ANY of the 300 million+ guns in the US. Let’s study that…
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 16, 2019
Someone should show Mr. Moore The Color of Crime and the statistics that show blacks commit most mass shootings.
Practically every tweet from failed congressional candidate Saira Rao is a classic but this month’s highlight:
Make a banner about Ending Whiteness. March Against Whiteness. Rally Against Whiteness. Raise your megaphone Against Whiteness. Take to the streets Against Whiteness.
Until and unless we eradicate toxic whiteness, the violence will never stop.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 12, 2019
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, a Hispanic nationalist and alleged “Republican,” complained last year that it was “dehumanizing” when President Donald Trump called MS-13 gang members animals. On her verified Twitter account, she recently said of Stephen Miller:
It has a soul? https://t.co/QfLpoDnWP9
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 19, 2019
Frederick Joseph raised nearly a million dollars to send children to see the film Black Panther. On his verified account, he said:
When you don’t realize Black people can’t be racist against white people you might be an idiot 🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/BsnaDC84oV
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) August 20, 2019
Elie Mystal, who recently called on progressives to “destroy” Donald Trump supporters, praised the New York Times’ 1619 project:
The thing I find interesting about these white people getting all mad about the 1619 project is their implicit admission that learning about America’s blood-soaked history of racism, oppression, and violence against black people would make people not like America.
YA THINK?
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 19, 2019
YES, white conservatives, if more people knew about the “original” concepts of America, “originalism” would be more widely viewed as the backdoor white supremacy ideology it’s always been.
When your legal philosophy cannot withstand A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE, that’s a problem.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 19, 2019
Comedian Dewayne Perkins said on his verified Twitter account:
The #1619Project has white people IN. THEIR. FEELINGS. To even be so entitled to have an emotional claim on history is wild to me. pic.twitter.com/k3ejPpk4Fz
— Dewayne Perkins (@DewaynePerkins) August 18, 2019
Verified Twitter user Michael Schur, “Ken Tremendous,” is the creator of the television show “Parks and Recreation.” His view:
And once you deny that white people built the country with slave labor, you sound like a dingdong who failed 7th grade history. https://t.co/l54Mww2hIm
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 19, 2019
Jamil Smith of Rolling Stone said Ken Cuccinelli had gone “full white nationalist” by trying to prevent immigrants from collecting welfare.
I wrote about Ken Cuccinelli, whose time probably would be wasted reading a history book or his own family history, going full white-nationalist to defend an elitist immigration rule that only pretends to guard the social safety net for white people. https://t.co/XxFBkuy2DU
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 18, 2019
Twitter user “Propane Jane” got thousands of likes with her tweet:
For every Proud Boy marauding the streets there’s at least a dozen White people who aren’t as overtly proud of their White supremacist beliefs but will quietly vote Republican til the day they die for the sake of White wealth, power, patriarchy and privilege.
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) August 18, 2019
Finally, there is “Icanteven” @coastalelite22, wondering whether her white children have a “genetic defect.”
Mom of two white boys here. Getting them to see on a daily basis how entitled they are — all the breaks they get, that other kids don’t, because of how they look or where they are from — is a struggle. I honestly feel some days like it’s a genetic defect.
— icanteven (@coastalelite22) August 4, 2019
As one wag put it, “white people love to feel good about themselves by feeling bad about being white.”
