Response To SPLC Smear Article

I’m not in the least bit surprised.

As usual, the disgusting smear merchants at the SPLC never let a tragedy go to waste. The Lying Press has already smeared and blamed President Trump for the Pittsburgh shooting. It has blamed Andrew Torba and Gab. Now, I guess it is my turn to be roped into this:

“In the months leading up to Robert Bowers’ murderous rampage, he was in deep on the social media platform Gab, frequently reposting content from influential alt-right accounts including Jared Wyand and Bradley Dean Griffin. …

Between May and October, Bowers also engaged with 14 posts from the account of white nationalist Bradley Dean Griffin.

Griffin, who operates the white nationalist blog “Occidental Dissent” under the pseudonym “Hunter Wallace” and serves as the “PR Chief” of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, was a prominent fixture in the “optics” debate of 2017 and was at the center of violence during the deadly “Unite the Right” event.

Griffin also created a website called “Antisemitica,” the purpose of which was to “explore the Jewish Question and anti-Semitic discourse from a cooler, more collected perspective… Instead, we shall argue that Jewish influence (in the aggregate) is a menace to the racial and cultural health of American society, and that White Americans would be better off without a Jewish presence within our borders.”

On his website after the Tree of Life massacre, Griffin wrote, “As it happens, I was in the middle of a heated argument with someone on Gab about how Jewish donors control the Trump administration when the Pittsburgh shooting happened.” Bowers shared this antisemitic criticism of Trump.

The Griffin posts Bowers shared spanned an assortment of topics and movement events. One criticized the Republican Party for moving to oust white nationalist James Allsup from his position as a precinct committee officer in Washington state. Another shared legal developments regarding the “Unite the Right” riot. Another gloated about the then-impending confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In one post, Griffin wrote, “Every time you are accused of an -ism or -phobia remember this communist garbage has nothing to do with morality.” While image content is not available in the Gab dataset, Bowers’ response suggests Griffin’s post contained an image of person who Bowers thought was Jewish: “hmmm. that hair… that nose… #EverySingleTime #ExposeTheNose.”

The user Bowers engaged with the most was someone who went by “Jack Corbin.” Corbin appears to collaborate with Griffin on Griffin’s pet project doxing activists affiliated with anti-fascist groups. …”

The shocking revelation here is that the Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers “liked” or “retweeted” about a dozen of my posts on Gab. These posts were mostly about my dislike of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. I have over 7,000 followers on Gab and get hundreds of notifications every day. I have one of the larger accounts that is often featured in the “popular posts” section.

What does any of this prove? It proves that Robert Bowers was also skeptical of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It proves that Robert Bowers was also critical of Jews. It DOES NOT prove that I had anything to do with his shooting spree in Pittsburgh or that I have ever supported mass shooters. Just the opposite is true and the SPLC is well aware of my views on this subject.

I have criticized mass shooters for over a decade on this website:

– Violence Is a Stupid Tactic

In this post, I argued for the umpteenth time that violence is a stupid tactic. I figured that if I couldn’t reach the sort of people who do these things on a moral level that I could convince them it is a strategic blunder. I had already written the moral case article many times before.

– Statement on Morality

In this post, I outlined my moral beliefs and explicitly condemned mass shootings. I said that murder is immoral. I explicitly said that I don’t support fanatics and psychos who does these things:

“Just so we are clear, I am not encouraging you to murder random people or even people you know. That’s certainly not what I believe. I’ve made that clear on numerous occasions here in the past during previous meltdowns. I don’t support fanatics or psychos who repudiate basic moral precepts and ignore their conscience for the sake of their political ideology.”

– Vantards, In Retrospect

In this post, I linked to collection of some of the articles that I have written over the years about mass shooters and their periodic meltdowns.

– Violence and Vanguardists

In this post, I warned about the “mentally disturbed, hyper alienated fantasists” who engage in mass shootings. This was after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in 2011.

– Why Vanguardists Can’t Win

In this post, I said that violence only appealed to alienated fantasists.

– Spokane Bomb

In this post, I said this website “condemns the use of violence in the strongest possible terms.”

– On Violence: A Rejoinder

In this post, I argued that only nihilists and sociopaths argue about the morality of violence.

– A Deadly Cocktail: Self Expression, Fantasism, and Mental Illness

In this post, I wrote at length about the factors that cause mass shootings:

“Although some have already done so, I didn’t feel the need to “condemn” this incident for two reasons:

1.) First, what this guy did was so obviously immoral, and so repulsive to any Christian, that it doesn’t need to be stated. Maybe it does as America culturally decomposes and things like this happen, but it is distressing when we live in a world where Christians have to articulate such a basic notion that murdering innocent people is always wrong. How much simpler does morality get than “Thou Shalt Not Kill?” Only a fanatic would stand in “solidarity” with this individual after the crime he committed.

2.) Second, I don’t know this individual and had never heard of him until his name was announced on television. Since I don’t know him from Adam, I didn’t see any reason to condemn him. His own friends in that trailer park were the ones who knew about his planned attack months in advance. They were the only ones who were in a position to stop him.

As far as I was concerned, the only interesting question about Charleston, which after all is just one case in a far larger trend, was whether the shooter would turn out to be another self detonating vantardist, which occassionally happens, or a mentally ill nutcase who wasn’t politically motivated. We’ve seen examples of both over the years and it turns out, unsurprisingly, that Dylann Roof was of killer in the vantardist tradition.”

– Beware of Vantards

In this post, I lamented that these violent meltdowns tend to happen with an unfortunate regularity.

– Jews and Vanguardists

In this post, I said that “the last thing we want to do is convince people that we are more out of control than the federal government!”

Most famously, I argued at length about the morality of a hypothetical mass shootings of Jews in three podcasts on Radio Free Mississippi. I did that here, here and here. I also have created a tag about the many posts that I have written about mass shootings over the years.

The SPLC has a long history of defaming people and recently paid out millions of dollars in a settlement with Maajid Nawaz. Let’s not forget that the Family Research Council terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins also explicitly told the FBI that he targeted that organization over the SPLC’s enemies list. Floyd Corkins was far more “inspired” by the SPLC than anything Jack Corbin or I have ever wrote.

Note: The true reason that the SPLC is going after the two of us is that we have been doxing their violent Antifa friends. We’re at the top of their enemies list. Admittedly, I worry sometimes when these articles are published that the SPLC will stir up another Floyd Corkins.