There’s an Elliot Rodger fan page on Facebook that keeps returning after people manage to get one taken down (with great difficulty because Facebook is Facebook).
Facebook has removed fan pages for mass murderer Elliot Rodger, but new ones keep popping up — including one that targeted a woman who alleged its creators have harassed her for years.
Using one misogynist campaign in the service of another misogynist campaign. Enterprising.
Facebook has since said earlier versions of the pages were removed.
A man claiming to be behind the page, an Internet radio host who goes by the moniker Wild Goose, told QMI the “page was set up [in] order to rustle the jimmies of feminists around the world who are attempting to hijack this tragedy in order to further their own agenda.”
Nice company the Zaras and Hales are in.
“…who are attempting to hijack this tragedy in order to further their own agenda.”
So he’s “hijacking this tragedy” to harass people in a way that is directly hurtful to the families of the victims. I have to admit, I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I’m still impressed with this level of ignorance. This Wild Goose fellow is doing an excellent job of finding a new way to prove Lewis’ Law.
Bloody hell facebook is it really so hard for you to stop such repugnant hate pages from appearing? Seriously?
No, we don’t have a problem with hate, with women. No, not at all.
So, what’s it called when you “hijack” a tragedy to promote something that featured in the tragedy, and condemn people who have a problem with that? Preemptive and/or counterstrike hijacking?
People who are so desparate for a pat on the back that there are no lows to which they won’t stoop.
This Wild Goose fellow appears to be part of a minor trolling group who would like to be notorious. Well, I suppose that a few more people have now heard of him, but what is the end game? Spread a little misogynistic hate, slightly impoverish the existance of those who have to deal with it, and.. profit? How?
My irony meter melted O_O
And you know what? I don’t even want to know what “jimmies” are!
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-really-rustled-my-jimmies
Yeah, feminists are “hijacking the tragedy for their own agenda” of not wanting women to be murdered by men.