Twitter thread illuminates absurdity of alt-right movement
On Saturday, the country was horrified to watch the violence at a repugnant alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. After a rally, a white supremacist intentionally drove into a group of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens of others.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, the internet was ablaze with opinions. One Twitter thread put the white nationalist protest in perspective.
In a savage series of tweets, Twitter user Julius Goat laid out exactly why whatever the white nationalists/white supremacists/neo-Nazis are complaining about is such absolute nonsense. Mr. Goat (not his real name?) delivered his message so beautifully it hardly needs any additional commentary.
Imagine if these people ever faced actual oppression. pic.twitter.com/dhPCbtfEjO
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Nobody is trying to legislate away their right to marry.
— Julius Goat
Nobody is trying to make them buy insurance to pay for 'male health care.'(@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
There is no massive effort at the state and local level to disenfranchise them of the vote.
— Julius Goat
There is no history of centuries of bad science devoted to 'proving' their intellectual inferiority.
— Julius Goat
There is no travel ban on them because of their religion.
— Julius Goat
There is no danger for them when they carry dangerous weaponry publicly.
Their churches were never burned.
— Julius Goat
Their lawns never decorated with burning crosses
Their ancestors never hung from trees
Their mothers aren't being torn away by ICE troopers and sent away forever. They won't be forced to leave the only country they ever knew.
— Julius Goat
The president has not set up a hotline to report crime committed at their hands.
— Julius Goat
They are chanting 'we will not be replaced.'
— Julius Goat
Replaced as ... what?
I'll tell you.
Replaced as the only voice in public discussions.
— Julius Goat
Replaced as the only bodies in the public arena.
Replaced as the only life that matters.
THIS is 'white people' oppression:
— Julius Goat
We used to be the only voice. Now we hold the only microphone.
THIS is 'white man' oppression.
— Julius Goat
We face criticism now. We were free from it, because others feared the consequences.
THIS is 'oppression' of white Christians in this country.
— Julius Goat
Christmas used to be the only holiday acknowledged, now it's not.
I would so love to see these people get all the oppression they insist they receive, just for a year. Just to see. pic.twitter.com/fMKMLXWo79
— Julius Goat
Give them a world where you ACTUALLY can't say Christmas.
— Julius Goat
A world where the name "Geoff" on a resume puts it in the trash.
Give them a world where they suddenly get a 20% pay cut, and then 70 women every day tell them to smile more.
— Julius Goat
Give them a world where their polo shirt makes people nervous, so they're kicked off the flight from Pittsburgh to Indianapolis.
— Julius Goat
Give them a world where they inherited nothing but a very real understanding of what oppression really fucking is.
— Julius Goat
Give them a world where if they pulled up on a campus with torches lit and started throwing hands, the cops would punch their eyes out.
— Julius Goat
Put THAT in your Tiki torches and light it, you sorry Nazi bitches.
— Julius Goat
Good morning, by the way, how is everybody.
Amen.
It took Julius Goat 21 tweets to thoroughly dismantle the absurdity of the white nationalists’ idea that they are the aggrieved party in this country. That they have something to protest. That they are victims.
Unfortunately, based on yesterday’s violence, there are likely to be many more actual victims of their repugnant ideology before they read, or recognize, the reality behind that message.