Oct 4, 2017 not the case at all, its just a rumor thats been tossed around since some1 got in trouble for cp
Oct 4, 2017 lol this is like nothing. probs an aussie shitposter dropped this cause of gay marriage debate atm in Aus.i opened it just before and dead centre of screen was a; "n***** hate thread" like with the hard 'er' at the end. multiple threads about how shooting was falseflag/staged/all paid actors earth is flat and cause when you post your geo location is snagged and it posts a corresponding flag literally every non US flag post is "LOL AMERICA BAN UR GUNS LOL" you can actually, not sure what country/ies though it happened to my mate in europe. He was in Belgium at the time I think, or somewhere in Germany. basically police questioned him and he is a liberal and is gay so was just like "yeah i was just curious to see it, not a nazi or anything" and they understood and said they just had to be sure sorta thing.
Oct 4, 2017 the dude was american he responded to a dude who posted a pic of their lgbt family or something whatever
Oct 4, 2017 ahh okay. lol sounded so aussie but. dunno what it was. but yeah someone always shitposts a pic of like interracial couples, or LGBT families with like "name my band" and "thoughts?" and s--- like that
Oct 4, 2017 he's definitely not alt-right, but he did get caught up playing to that side of the spectrum
Oct 4, 2017 Anthony smashes black chicks. Then again Milo prefers chocolate too. Definitely alt right now that i think about it.
Oct 4, 2017 He didn’t delete it he just took all the videos down. He took them down because every video got demonetized before they even got uploaded. This article is probably why but he said he’ll upload all his old videos to another platform if he finds one.
Oct 4, 2017 i think there's an important distinction between actual satire and doing something with a vague bit of ironic undertone. there are a lot of things to unpack here. would fantano voice all of these opinions in real life, in polite company? maybe not. is that relevant? i don't think so. the whole, weird, rightist online community (including the overtly political parts of the "alt-right," plus kids who just think typing "n----" is the most fun they can possibly have) loves, loves, loves to cling to the plausible deniability that comes with it being "only a joke." but that very clearly is a facade--these people are very clearly voicing what they believe. i dunno. i think fantano both-sidesing everything on twitter and earnestly believing "social justice warriors" are a serious cultural problem, and then him going online and laughing about raping and murdering famous women, are not really the same thing--but they're not exactly unrelated. i.e.- he believes that the latter is a deserved counterpoint to the former, or he believes the former's (and broader society's) rejection of the latter is somehow authoritarian. neither is a very good argument, to my eyes at least. @Charlie Work, i know you mentioned in this thread the idea that some of the tumblr kid rhetoric is ridiculous, ripe for parody, and delegitimizes broader cultural progressivism in some ways. of course it's ridiculous--but this isn't 2013. i think that, while those strains still exist with some teens and twenty-somethings, no one at any point on the political spectrum is taking them seriously or seeing them as cultural leaders. they're just kids who spend too much time online. (the counterpoint of course are the other kids who spend too much time online and call the jewish writer of this fader article a "kike" to prove how not-racist their boy is.) basically what i'm saying is that "social justice warriors" are not only not having a detrimental effect on society or discourse, but they aren't having an appreciable effect at all anymore. lots of their identity-based focus has been mainstreamed in a way that really stamps out the ridiculousness. i guess the long and short of it is i've been annoyed by fantano's passive racism and half-baked politics for so long that him """"""ironically"""""" profiting off the alt-right, while not being a national crisis or anything, is unsurprising and SHOULD be pretty damaging to his career. of course, it won't be.
Oct 4, 2017 would you concede that the construction of their acts is much, much clearer in intent and outcome? you look at the shape of a louis joke, even as he's regressed as a standup, and you can see, without a shadow of a doubt, who/what is being addressed. fantano's videos, at least the ones that i saw, often used the material he's supposedly satirizing for earnest laughs at its expense, and i guess clung to the cheap rhetorical out that it's all a joke. i think they function differently.
Oct 4, 2017 ::cracks knuckles:: ::@wpg's eyes linger on the floor:: Two of the most respected American comedians, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, have discussed the unique problems that comics face on college campuses. In November, Rock told Frank Rich in an interview for New York magazine that he no longer plays colleges, because they’re “too conservative.” He didn’t necessarily mean that the students were Republican; he meant that they were far too eager “not to offend anybody.” In college gigs, he said, “you can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.” Then, in June, Seinfeld reopened the debate—and set off a frenzied round of op-eds—when he said in a radio interview that comics warn him not to “go near colleges—they’re so PC.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/thats-not-funny/399335/ There's definitely - lets say- cause for alarm that a certain sect of well-intentioned progressives are sucking the marrow out of this country, or at least diminishing comedy, making it "ironic" in an overtly toothless way. While I agree "SJW" is... a loose term, you can't deny there's a kneejerk tendency to overreact to... sayyyyy... a Stephen Colbert joke. Donald Trump is absolutely a reaction to this culture. It's a bit of a game, ultimately; Trump "offends" x groups, y groups applaud Trump and the cycle continues. But lets call a spade a spade.
Oct 4, 2017 hmm. i understand this read on it. i'm not saying there's not an over-correction to socially palatable stuff in certain environments (esp. colleges). but we're talking about fantano here, so shouldn't we be talking on his terms? shouldn't we be debating whether feminists are really stifling free speech? i think what we've seen is that, while each faction (the tumblr left and the online right) draws a large part of its identity from being mad at the other, they actually--in a financial and rhetorical sense--are necessary for the other's existence. no free speech, as fantano would probably define it, is actually being stifled by "sjws." in fact, "sjw" outrage has created a cottage industry (and a presidency) around that exact speech.
