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Right Wing Watch ✊White Nationalist Vincent James Would Happily Live in a ‘Society Where They Throw Gays Off Roofs’

 Kyle Mantyla

Near the end of 2022, far-right streamers Vincent James and Steven Franssen hosted an episode of their “White Boy Wednesday” livestream during which James said that he would be more than happy to live in a society where “they throw gays off buildings.”

James is an unapologetic racist, antisemite, misogynist, conspiracy theorist, and fascist who currently serves as the treasurer of white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First organization. He has used his livestream program, broadcast on Fuentes’ “anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic” platform, to openly advocate for throwing gay people off of buildings before, as well as calling for women to be stripped of their rights and the establishment of a Christian Taliban in this country that will “dominate without mercy.”

During the “White Boy Wednesday” broadcast, James grew exasperated by those who criticized FIFA for holding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a nation that harshly oppresses and persecutes LGBTQ people.

“Who cares how they treat homosexuals?” James said. “Why do we have to measure things based on how they treat homosexuals? Can’t we measure things based on everything else? 

Continue reading @ Right Wing Watch.

Throwing Gays Off Roofs

Matt Treacy ✒ When The Irish Times is being attacked by elements of the NGO liberal left then you tend to sit up and pay attention.


It is not so much really the call by the Trans Writers Union for a boycott of the People’s Daily of the Nice People that is noteworthy, as is the fact that it is being promoted by Uplift Ireland who do carry a bit of clout among the mainstream, as opposed to the Craggy Island faction, of the Woke.

The Trans Writers Union are calling on their “trans comrades, our allies, and anyone disenfranchised with the recent Irish Times editorial decisions” to boycott the Party organ until their demands are met. The demands being that 1) the Times withdraw and apologises for a “conversion therapy” piece; and, 2) that the newspaper adopt a “trans-inclusive editorial line.”

Uplift host all manner of mad petitions so this one is not out of place but it also claims to be “a people powered community of over 340,000.” How they make that out I am not certain as they say they have 773 members. It may be to do with the fact that their niche in the leftie NGO sphere appears to be – apart from using the bulk of their funding to pay their own staff – to collect money from others in NGO land to promote marginal stuff.

They got almost €50,000 from the Soros account according to their last published financial statement, along with another €30,000 from Neo Philanthropy which seems to be a conduit for larger liberal foundations such as Atlantic, Open Society and Ford, and whose main function in the United States is to support the Democratic Party with election funding.

Uplift claims to have received over €214,625 in “member donations” in 2020. That appears very high compared to the paltry amount of membership funding that even the large NGOs claim to receive, so it is possible that some of that is donations from other organisations including other NGOs.

I don’t know because Uplift don’t say other than the amount included donations from 773 members in 2020. That would amount to €277.65 a year for an individual and I doubt there are many similar organisations which have that sort of prosperous or committed individual membership base.

Perhaps some of the members are other organisations, perhaps other NGOs who are recycling monies they themselves receive from the taxpayer? All that really ought to be made clear in the accounts of all such bodies.

All of that is by way of a segue – love that word – into a rather unseemly squabble among certain elements of the liberal left following the horrendous murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee. One part of it seems to be driven by the sort of absurd attack by UCD Professor McAuliffe on the alleged complicity of mainstream feminists in creating the atmosphere that she and other gender ideologues claim contributed to the murders.

None of this is new. Anyone familiar with the history of the totalitarian left from the Jacobins to the Khmer Rouge will know that the terrorists eventually get around to taking down their own. “The wolves devour one another” – usually, unfortunately, not until after they have done the same to their more immediate enemies. So, if the purges are starting now, all the better you might say.

Which brings me to another point. These people are thriving in a mainstream that has encouraged their lunacy.

The Irish Times boycott is one example. More pertinent, however, is that elected politicians including government ministers are contributing to this by their statements which endorse much of the shoddy and malevolent thinking that lies behind it.

One prime example is Minister for Justice Helen McEntee’s statement in the wake of the murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in which she referred to “incidents that we thought were behind us.”

Really? And the last time anyone was tortured to death and beheaded by someone in Ireland because of their sexuality was when exactly Minister?

This nonsense has now been taken up by others and become the go-to-phrase by some on social media who mindlessly – and yes, that is the right description – repeat McEntee’s claim as though it embodies some sort of unquestioned truth about this country: that there was a time when such horrors were commonplace.

It beggars belief that this needs to be clarified, and for the Minister for Justice no less, but at no time in the history of the Irish state were men beheaded because they were gay. This is not something that happened in the past – but it seems it may be something that is part of our present, yet the policies that are enabling it seem to be escaping scrutiny. Her remark also feeds into the sort of nonsense I have seen where some were criticising the homily given by the priest at the funeral of Aidan Moffitt. Fr. Michael McManus referred to the grief felt by the family and friends of a man who was clearly much loved and much a part of his community, right down to a Roscommon GAA flag being one of the offerings, his participation in local politics as a member of Fine Gael, and his involvement in horse racing.

All things he shared with huge numbers of people in Irish society, yet some people – many of whom loathe probably all of those central parts of Aidan Moffitt’s life – attempt to attribute some of the responsibility for his murder to society in general. We saw the same following the murder of Aisling Murphy.

Did anyone try to stop Aidan Moffitt from taking part in any of those things because he was a gay man? Much less, did anyone in his own community, any Irish person, ever attempt to murder him because of it?

And let’s be frank, the person who carried out his murder and the murder of Michael Snee is no part of our community. Not because of his race or his religion, but because he chose not to be. Which is anyone’s own business except when they become violent enemies of that community.

Perhaps the Minister might reflect then on some of the factors that are contributing to current patterns of violence and social dysfunction, rather than engaging in a mythical ideologization of a past that involved the torture and beheading of gay men by Irish men. It never happened.

If she wishes to lessen the chances of it happening again in the future, then she might take steps that are in her power to prevent it.

Matt Treacy has published a number of books including histories of 
the Republican Movement and of the Communist Party of Ireland. 

Minister McEntee Is Wrong ✑ Irish Society Did Not Behead Men Because They Are Gay

Anthony McIntyre ✒ This evening In Drogheda's West Street residents of the town turned out for a vigil in honour of the two men murdered earlier this week in Sligo.


It was a scene replicated across the country as people of various hues gathered in grim determination to stand firm against the hate reaper stalking the streets.

It has been strongly suggested that both men were prey for a predatory hate killer, each viciously slain for being gay. I went in solidarity after my daughter had contacted me from Lyon to say the event was taking place. While standing talking to a local politician my teenage son and his friend turned up. I don't think they went to it specifically but it was good that they did and observed the minute's silence for both murdered men.


Much less joyous than seeing my son and his friend turn up was not seeing the town photographer there. Unfortunately, Jimmy Weldon died yesterday morning in the local Lourdes Hospital, whose name he had campaigned to prevent being dropped. Whether he was a Catholic traditionalist or simply someone who felt that for the Lourdes to no longer be the Lourdes, the town would lose something of its discursive character and cultural significance, I don't know. Forty years of pounding the streets in all types of weather in search of that moment in time to be captured forever, brought to Jimmy a town celebrity status. Whatever snaps were taken this evening, few will attain the level of quality we have come to associate with Jimmy Weldon.

If there was a wedding, 21st, communion, first day of school; it just wasn’t the same without Jimmy capturing those precious moments forever.

If, as seems certain, the Sligo murders were hate crimes, then it marks an upturn in violence against our fellow citizens within Ireland's gay community. There have been other reports of attacks on gay people although fortunately nothing as serious as what took place in Sligo.

A gay activist spoke at tonight's rally and told his listeners that it is disheartening to see young people turn up at his office on a daily basis frightened because of the hostility their sexuality can attract, like a poultice drawing bilious hatred. Also speaking were local TDs Ged Nash and Imelda Munster, both of whom reaffirmed their solidarity with our fellow citizens under attack.


What the exact thinking behind the killings was, we will most likely find out in time. Often this type of hatred has a religious dimension to it. Hate Theology labels gay people sinners and abominations, while rejoicing in the threat to them that they will spend an eternity burning in Hell. Its adherents feel God is on their side because he hates the same people they do, rather than admitting that they weaponise their own god against the lifestyles they hate. Until the S word is treated like the N word, religious hatred will erupt from its sewer. 

An additional worrying dimension of the highest profile murder cases this year is the fact that those in custody accused of killing Aidan Moffitt, Michael Snee and Ashling Murphy seem to be foreign nationals. This will be jumped on by the far right to stir up hatred towards people because, to borrow the words of Philip Guerovitch, they were born a this rather than a that. Vigils suggest the need for vigilance not vigilantism. Our gay friends might not be the only people in need of solidarity in the days ahead.

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Drogheda Vigil For Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee

From MSN News a report that Anti-Gay Violence is on the rises in Greece a year after murder of an activist. 


At first, the crowd seemed too somber to join in the singalong of Madonna's “Like a Prayer” — a song that Zak Kostopoulos loved. But slowly, one by one, people gathered at the Athens School of Fine Arts began to sing and clap.

When they finished the song, mourners called out in unison, “Zackie lives, smash the Nazis.” In Greek, the phrase rhymes, and over the past year, it’s been chanted at protests, marches and drag shows all over the country.

The memorial last Friday was one of several tributes over the weekend to the prominent gay activist who was brutally beaten to death on Sept. 21, 2018. The violence was captured on camera and broadcast widely, and catapulted into the national conversation. In the past year, a larger movement has formed calling for justice for Kostopoulos, who was 33.

Kostopoulos was an advocate for people like himself — LGBTQ people, drug users and those with HIV, and he often wrote about the rights of sex workers and refugees. He made waves in 2013 when he wore a T-shirt to Athens' Pride that said, “HIV Positive.” But he was perhaps most famous as the drag queen, Zackie Oh, often sporting heavy black eyeliner and a rainbow-colored bob. As Zackie Oh, he once impersonated Freddie Mercury, wearing a bathrobe and carrying around a tricolor duster (and using it on audience members). In 2017, Zackie Oh closed out Athens’ Pride with an ebullient performance of "Disco Inferno."

Kostopoulos' death and the aftermath has been a struggle in Greece, where, in recent years, it had seemed LGBTQ rights were improving.

Continue readin @ MSN News.

Anti-Gay Violence Rises In Greece

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