Nick Fuentes, recently banned from Youtube, has been on a hilarious non-sensical groyper journey.
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While thinking about the issue of Nick Fuentes, the self-described “Groyper Leader,” being banned from Youtube, I figured I should think about the last time a major network removed him. To my knowledge, that was in April 2017 when Right Side Broadcasting-the biggest fanboys of Donald Trump-fired him after he said the following:
“Who runs the media? Globalists. Time to kill the globalists. I don’t want to not watch CNN. I don’t want CNN to go out of business. I don’t want CNN to be more honest. I want people that run CNN to be arrested and deported or hanged because this is deliberate. This is not an accident. It’s not, ‘Oh, you know journalists have a liberal bias because they’re educated, and educated people tend to be’ — none of that. It is malicious intent. There is a design, there is an agenda here. And the people behind CNN that are pushing outright lies, and you see the people who try and expose the truth are cut off so obviously. They get their mics cut off, and they say, ‘Oh, whoops! We’ve lost the signal! Technical difficulties!'”
Even worse was how this rant started (It’s not mocked enough):
“The First Amendment was not written for Muslims, by the way. It wasn’t written for a barbaric ideology that wanted to come over and kill us. It was written for Calvinists. It was written for Lutherans and Catholics, not for Salafists, not for Wahabists, not for the Saudi royal family. Don’t think the founders had that one in mind. And it also was intended for citizens, not for immigrants. If the First Amendment protected everyone’s right to have their religion and express it in every country, we’d have our police in the Congo or in Uganda fighting against the Lord’s Resistance Army. And you never hear that side of the story on the mainstream media, and why not? Why don’t we hear about it? Why do none of our elected officials talk about this or like this? They know it’s true. Why don’t we hear about in the mainstream media? We don’t hear about it on Fox News, by the way, either. And why not?”
Literally everything in this statement is wrong. Muslims fought in the revolutionary war. According to records, two fellows named Yusuf ben Ali and Bampett Muhamed-which don’t exactly sound like European names-fought for Washington.
Catholics were considered people with “a barbaric ideology that wanted to come over and kill us,” hence why many Americans hated the Irish.
And we have spent time and effort fighting Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. That was more or less the center of the Kony 2012 controversy and caused President Obama to get a large amount of hate from Fuentes’s ilk. Rush Limbaugh, who now has a presidential metal of freedom, said the president was “targeting Christians,” by fighting violent terrorists.
It is impossible for me to hide just how nonsensical I find the ideology of Nick Fuentes and the groyper America First crowd. While some may say Nick’s above statements were quite awhile ago (which is fair, when he was saying this I was a socialist, so I wouldn’t usually judge all that harshly). But I should note that Nick Fuentes’s ideology has not changed-he’s just not as violent. His core belief system still makes no sense.
During the Groyper Leadership Summit, Nick railed against the idea proposed by people like Charlie Kirk that America was simply an idea. Instead, Nick said, it was the people that made the United States what it was. Then, within less than a minute of making this point (check the video if you don’t believe me), Nick talks about the important role of Christianity in making this nation.
But if Christianity is the main impact of the American way of life, surely at least one idea-the idea of Christianity-has to have some importance. If it’s truly just “the people” (whatever that means because Nick is one of the few who refuses to say “white people,” even going so far as to deny that he’s white) then why should it matter if they’re Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Atheist?
Also, funny how groypers make fun of “Juedo-Christian values” because, as they would tamely put it, “the Jews and the Christians haven’t gotten along throughout history,” when they also just say “Christianity” and nothing more specific. I don’t recall John Wycliffe getting along with the Catholic Church, nor do I recall the Church of England getting along with the Puritans, or the Catholic Church with Martin Luthur, for that matter.
Do I support Nick being banned from YouTube? Well, I’m not entirely sure he supports my right to live, so I’m not sure either.
However, I will note that no matter what I say in this column, his gropyer fans will take my criticism of him as evidence I want him gone. That’s the lesson Ben Shapiro learned when he tweeted this:
“Nick Fuentes is an absolute disgusting s***show. But if he was banned for his idiotic, garbage viewpoints rather than for violent threats, YouTube shouldn’t be deplatforming him.”
Of course, Shapiro also believes it should be illegal to advocate for a boycott of Israel, but that doesn’t matter.
All this led to was Nick’s groyper fans angrily demanding a debate and digging up old quotes of Ben Shapiro supporting ethnic cleansing over in Israel. Nick even already said that Shapiro wanted him banned. Why? Because Shapiro sometimes tweets out clips of Fuentes saying things that violate the terms of service of the website he’s using-which I guess is somehow the fault of Ben Shapiro.
(Of course: I believe that Shapiro will be a Fuentes style nationalist the second it makes him the most money, but that’s besides the point.)
The point is the groypers who watch America First tend to be unreasonable, as is the host of the program. You cannot reason with unreasonable people. As such, I have instead chosen to not even bother.
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