Don Trump Jr. and Stefan Molyneux: Twitter buds?

By David Futrelle

Sunday night Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a transphobic tweet from someone long familiar to readers of this blog: the racist, woman-hating YouTube “philosopher” Stefan Molyneux, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center describes, accurately, as an “alleged cult leader who amplifies ‘scientific racism,’ eugenics and white supremacism to a massive … audience.”

Molyneux, who first caught my attention more than five years ago for his open and often quite extravagant misogyny, has now taken to advocating straight-up white nationalism, albeit in euphemistic terms. While he doesn’t spew slurs like some of his alt-right brethren, he talks endlessly about allegedly intractable racial differences in IQ.

In one recent tweet, he asserted that

the devolution of the US from an Enlightenment Republic to a semi-banana republic … has a lot to do with racialIQ demographics esp permanent low Hispanic IQ

He’s repeated his claims about “permanant low Hispanic IQ” numerous times.

He has similar feelings about sub-Saharan Africans. In one tweet he accused those he feels are “ginning up racial hatred” against whites in South Africa of potentially killing off everyone in that country because, in his imagined scenario, “the blacks will kill the whites and/or drive them off. Then the blacks will starve” because, with their “Avg IQ low 70s” they will be too stupid to survive on their own.

He has, well, interesting thoughts on white women who marry the descendants of sub-Saharan Africans:

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1077314912102297600

And he has many other thoughts about the allegedly insidious effects of “racial IQ differences” on western — “white” — countries.

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1078868440826314752

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1088144875655065600

His now infamous take on the Iraq war is truly galaxy-brained:

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1082489068741513217

And if you don’t believe him, he may just have to get out his calipers!

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1071116953538809856

Molyneux is convinced that “[m]ass immigration from the third world” is causing “falling Western IQ,” along with many other social ills, and has repeatedly fellow whites about what he thinks is a vast conspiracy to “replace” western whites with brown people from poorer countries — directly echoing the rhetoric of the neo-Nazis chanting “you will not replace us” in Charlottesville.

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/885197204532715521

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1073098087306936320

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1081991553525207040

He also frets aloud about what he sees as a terrible shortage of white babies:

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1075166281634988032

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1089415027214282754

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1087808116735893504

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1075771764876050434

He’s also indignant that people look askance at racists crowing about the alleged superiority of “white culture” — that is, white people.

But as shitty as his racism is, we shouldn’t forget that Molyneux, a self-described Men’s Rights Activist who was once a featured speaker at a convention organized by Men’s Rights hate site A Voice for Men, is also a huge misogynist.

Indeed, he has repeatedly argued that it is women who are ultimately responsible for all the evil in the world. Sure, he acknowledges, there are men who do evil things — but the blame for their evil, he thinks, should rest at the hands (and the vaginas) of the women who bore them and most likely raised them.

He spelled this out in some detail in a ranting video several years ago — arguing that if women didn’t choose shitty men to have children with the world would be a wonderful place.

Women who choose the assholes will … fucking end this human race. … Women who choose assholes guarantee child abuse. Women who choose assholes guarantee criminality, sociopathy. Politicians, all the cold-hearted jerks who run the world came out of the vaginas of women who married assholes. And I don’t know how to make the world a better place without holding women accountable for choosing assholes. … Women … keep the evil of the species going by continually choosing these guys. If being an asshole didn’t get women, there would be no assholes left. If women chose nice guys over assholes we would have a glorious and peaceful world in one generation. Women determine the personality traits of the men because women choose who to have sex with, and who to have children with, and who to expose those children to. … Stop fucking monsters and we get a great world. Keep fucking monsters, we get catastrophes, we get war, we get nuclear weapons, we get national debt, we get incarcerations … Women worship at the feet of the devil and wonder why the world is evil.

He’s still holding women responsible for all the problems in the world — and all the evil that men do.

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1129586168088211461

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1048618488128921602

It goes without saying that Molyneux is not a fan of feminism:

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/961692908574343168

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/929772159307862016

He also seems, well, a little bit uncomfortable with the fact that women have the right to vote.

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1129022959220330496

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1059822527822802945

As it turns out, he’s got a lot of advice for the ladies:

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1099386771689951232

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/974377252212346880

I dunno, that last one seems less like a warning and more like an incentive plan. (Does Stefan even know what cats are? Has he seen their gifs?)

But the sheer absurdity of many of Molyneux’s claims shouldn’t obscure the very real hatred and bigotry underlying them.

Which raises the question: How is it that the adult son of the president, heavily involved in his father’s political and business life, is even seeing Molyneux in his Twitter feed, much less using his own Twitter account — with its 3.6 million followers, at least some of whom are not bots — to amplify his voice (and not for the first time)?

Well, that would be the question if Don Jr’s last name were anything but “Trump” and if we lived in normal political times. These days, with Trump Sr. himself retweeting QAnon conspiracy theorists, Don Jr’s retweets of the racist, misogynistic, and just plain idiotic Molyneux are just par for the course.

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