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A few days ago, we had a bunch of drunk nazis singing about trad [traditional] women. Today, we have two white supremacist women who sing praises to trad women being taken down by the audience they cater to, because it turns out, they aren’t trad.
Lauren Southern, a conservative activist and media personality who is frequently praised by the alt-right sympathizers on YouTube and 4chan, thought it was necessary to explain to her viewers earlier this month why she was not married and did not have children despite being one of the most prominent new media voices promoting “traditionalist” lifestyles where women marry early and are relegated to housekeeping and child-rearing.
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“I don’t usually respond to comments because in my opinion comments don’t represent what I say, however I have gotten so many comments lately that have misinterpreted the message I’m trying to put out there that it’s gotten to a point where unfortunately I think I do need to address it,” Southern said, going on to explain that she is not married at 22 years old for many of the same reasons other women do not get married in their early 20s and that it would actually be “degenerate” of her to get married right now.
Southern described the attacks against her as “shocking” and “insane,” which is a bit odd given that she has conditioned her audience with video after video promoting traditionalism among women, mocking women who are happy being single, attempting to embarrass protesters marching for women’s rights, among other generally anti-social-justice messages. When her most ideologically devoted fans tested her commitment to the views she espouses, Southern conceded that she speaks in “generalities.”
Shocking! Insane! It’s very difficult for me to believe any of this could actually come as a shock. I suppose a person could put themselves in an intentional bubble, parroting evil shit to make money, without paying attention to their audience. I seriously doubt this is the case, though. These women had to know the sort of views their audience had and supported, and that their audience is highly misogynistic.
As for the hypocrisy, well, that’s nothing new. “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Tara McCarthy, a YouTube pundit who describes herself as an ethno-nationalist and a member of the alt-right, has been facing similar attacks. McCarthy received so many comments attacking her for not having children that she locked her Twitter account right after posting that she was going to “take a break from Twitter because I need to think without being inundated by notifications.”
Tara McCarthy: I had no idea that the Alt Right was a designated ‘male space’ but at this rate I’ll happily leave the Alt Right. I have no desire to stick around in a place where I am unwanted.
She was responding to #DSA Melancholia: Oh look, another slit trying to police male spaces.
Slit. There’s lovely language for you.
Last year, McCarthy and her husband were outed by the YouTube vegan community as insane racists, spurring a backlash that forced McCarthy to delete her channel. Since then, McCarthy has created a newer YouTube presence to provide a platform for white supremacist activists who openly identify as neo-Nazis, such as Greg Johnson and Andrew Anglin, to advocate that women produce as many white children as possible, and to decry feminism and encourage women to get married early.
It’s easier for me to believe McCarthy is in a self-made bubble, doing whatever she can to gain a following and monetize whatever she goes on about. Even so, it can’t be any sort of surprise that the ‘alt-right’ takes a dim view of women in general, relegating them to background, doing all those trad things: poppin’ out babies, and hanging out in the kitchen, cooking for those hard working nazis.
McCarthy s are vegan? Have they weighed in on the soy controversy?
I have no idea. I barely know who these people are, I don’t follow them in any way. That said, it’s fairly plain that McCarthy will do anything for money. Although, if they still had the vegan thing going, along with the nazi thing, that would have made for a funny dilemma.
Didn’t Dave Chapelle already do this sketch -- with the blind white supremacist?
His version was painfully funny.
Marcus, yes, it was. I remember that sketch well.
I’d hope that being treated this way would at least knock some sense into these two, but I’m probably being overly optimistic.
Caine@#4:
Of course these two don’t have the advantage of being able to say they were unaware what they were getting into. At least Chappelle’s character was color-blind.
Marcus:
That’s not stopping them from trying to claim they just didn’t know. For realz.
Dumb asses.
“Trad” is also used in traditional folk music, for example the Na Trads in Scotland. Folk musicians probably won’t appreciate the word being hijacked by Nazi’s.
Well, Ladies. There’s some sayi gs about beds, fleas, dogs, sowing, reaping and deserts.