Well, at least they’re trying
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:
#TheTriggering being fat in not beautiful
— I have no friends (@FMLItSux) March 9, 2016
#thetriggering Being fat and ugly does cannot in itself be a justification for attempting to redefine the male perception of attractiveness
— Triggered (@DidymusTam) March 9, 2016
2) And neither do racists:
Disease ridden, uneducated, hand-out seeking hoards streaming across our borders will be stopped. #TheTriggering
— John Q Public (@goysheckles) March 9, 2016
3) Blah blah blah blah blah blah vaginas
#thetriggering Feminists hate men, but prefer having men in the government to have power to facilitate what they can do with their vaginas.
— LJ-No BullSh!t (@LeifLJones) March 9, 2016
In Aztec culture, women who lied about rape got mashed chillies stuffed in their vaginas for an entire day. Just sayin #thetriggering
— All women are whores (@FuckTwatter001) March 9, 2016
Open vaginas follow open borders #TheTriggering
— chris (@defunked) March 9, 2016
4) Blah blah blah blah blah blah cucks
Trump over Sanders because creating walls is better than creating cucks #TheTriggering
— DUDE, WEEB. (@HuemanGarbage) March 9, 2016
Feminism is trying to turn all straight white males into faggots, trans and cucks #TheTriggering
— MR MARMITE (@Lester_Creel) March 9, 2016
Most university codes of conduct are full of special snowflake definitions and mandate being a spineless cuck. #TheTriggering
— Henry Barrett (@henrybrrtt) March 9, 2016
Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico #thetriggering
— Mathew Smith (@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.”
I am voting for Donald Trump. #TheTriggering
— Riv (@StopRiv2016) March 9, 2016
"male feminists" should be castrated and prevented from making more thin-skins. #TheTriggering
— Riv (@StopRiv2016) March 9, 2016
Revenge porn should be allowable because if you didn't act like a bitch nobody would need revenge on you. #TheTriggering
— Riv (@StopRiv2016) March 9, 2016
Marilyn Monroe was a stupid whore & if you post Marilyn Monroe quotes so are you. #TheTriggering
— Riv (@StopRiv2016) March 9, 2016
7) Words can’t hurt you …
#thetriggering if you are hurt by words you should not be not the Internet.
— TheConfused007 (@TheConfused007) March 9, 2016
Words can't physically hurt you, it's your choice if you are childish enough to let them bother you #TheTriggering
— Hewsxn (@HEWHiGHROLLER) March 9, 2016
8) Except when they can
Racist is a meaningless word meant to hurt white people #TheTriggering
— William Rome (@willieromeburns) March 9, 2016
9) Bernie Sanders may be a slackjawed grocery-store farter
Bernie Sanders look like an old dude who would fart in the middle of a grocery store with his mouth wide open. #TheTriggering
— Jessica (@jesslutty) March 9, 2016
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.