Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

That article is gold

Still, when it came to race, Rodriquez’s hatred seemed reserved for white people. 

“Lol you probably would have to actually genocide white people to make this a normal country,” Rodriguez wrote in one post. “Like even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably have to lead to the lifetime imprisonments of tens of millions of white people.”

“I’m almost surprised you’re not antisemitic Elias,” a chat member once wrote. “It usually goes hand and hand [sic] with the whole Stalin did nothing wrong mantra,” alluding to Rodriguez’s support for old school communism.

Rodriguez threw around terms like “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,” “disgraced aristocrats” and ranted about his own disadvantages in life.

For example, Rodriguez attacked another member of the chat who he saw as privileged, for lamenting about the challenges of having a brother with schizophrenia. Rodriguez said in posts:

    “Why not just have him committed? You can’t possibly be gaining anything from a relationship with a person like that.”

    “Just put him in a padded room and forget about him. If there was a person you loved, he’s gone now. Let it go.”

    “Can you just chain him in the basement and slide meals under the door?”’

    “I’m just tired of hearing about this guy … He’s useless, we get it. Stop complaining and just dispose of him.”

In all his rage though, Rodriguez had an almost wide-eyed optimism about the global south, which as a self-identified Maoist Third Worldist, he believed alone had “revolutionary potential.”

“He was a big proponent of ‘the emerging resistance axis’ of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria,” a friend recalled. “He seemed pretty vocally in favor of Hamas for years — way before 2023. He’d always hated Israel and would call it ‘The Little Satan.’”

What is most striking about Rodriguez’s posts and the observations of his friends is the absence of any antisemitic remarks.

Well thank God! Just a batshit insane eugenist tankie!

Evergreen: What was his ERA username?