Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post.

I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s pretty underwhelming. There’s a great deal of highly predictable racism, transphobia, and misogyny. There are anime-avatarred fat shamers, Anita Sarkeesian haters pitching fits, Trump fans joking about the Holocaust, and even a few Men’s Rights activists. The hashtag reeks of undeserved self-satisfaction.

The only genuinely funny or original Tweets in the hashtag come from the feminists and other so-called Social Justice Warriors who’ve crashed the party with Tweets intended to trigger the triggerers.

And yet I have somehow managed to find a few lessons in all of this. And so, without further ado, here are The Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far).

1) Fat haters don’t proofread their tweets very carefully:

https://twitter.com/FMLItSux/status/707548031994957824

https://twitter.com/DidymusTam/status/707546927395692544

2) And neither do racists:

https://twitter.com/goysheckles/status/707580339028369409

3) Blah blah blah blah blah blah vaginas

https://twitter.com/LeifLJones/status/707529181576364032

https://twitter.com/FuckTwatter001/status/707464746640007170

https://twitter.com/defunked/status/707579493955846144

4) Blah blah blah blah blah blah cucks

https://twitter.com/HuemanGarbage/status/707621864865042432

Feminism is trying to turn all straight white males into faggots, trans and cucks #TheTriggering — MR MARMITE (@Mr_Marmite247) March 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/henrybrrtt/status/707424084833882112

Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico #thetriggering — Paul Nehlen (@footbrawler) March 9, 2016

5) There’s a weird overlap between #TheTriggering participants and dudes who almost certainly did very poorly on the analogies questions on the SAT

Breastfeeding your baby in a restaurant is the same as taking your own booze into a pub. You shouldn't. #TheTriggering — Craig Brown (@CreggehBroon) March 9, 2016

6) There’s also a weird overlap between Trump supporters, castration advocates, revenge porn lovers, and haters of Marilyn Monroe. That overlap calls himself “Riv.”

https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707445270091571202

https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707610635513761794

https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707607734406017026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707548913000128513

7) Words can’t hurt you …

#thetriggering if you are hurt by words you should not be not the Internet. — The Hentai Man (@TheConfused007) March 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/HEWHiGHROLLER/status/707527496674189312

8) Except when they can

https://twitter.com/willieromeburns/status/707580935693213696

9) Bernie Sanders may be a slackjawed grocery-store farter

https://twitter.com/jesslutty/status/707442394699079680

10) It’s somehow unfair for the media to point out offensive tweets in a hashtag devoted to posting offensive tweets

The media will ignore the 99.99% of smart #TheTriggering tweets and write about the tiny fraction of ones that are actually racist. — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 9, 2016

I imagine I will learn more lessons from #TheTriggering before the day is done.

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