C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘James Fishback is almost certainly not going to win the GOP nomination for governor of Florida this year, but he’s become an object of media fascination all the same. In part it’s because Fishback holds such bigoted views that he makes the frontrunner, Rep. Byron Donalds, look moderate by comparison, even though the congressman said Black families were more stable under Jim Crow. Fishback peddles antisemitic conspiracy theories and hurls racist taunts at Donalds.
But what is really drawing attention to the 31-year-old Fishback is how he, while running far behind with older Republican voters, generates real enthusiasm with young conservatives. Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times described the packed audience at a Fishback event as “very young,” writing, “several attendees told me they were in high school.” Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler wrote that the long-shot candidate “has captured the most extreme attitudinal aspects of the Gen Z online right.” Fishback is polling at 32% with GOP voters aged 18-32, and his campaign events are larger and growing.
While he is drawing huge crowds, his audience is mostly young men and boys. A key to Fishback’s appeal merits only a fleeting mention in most profiles: his proposal to pass a 50% “sin tax” on OnlyFans creators.
“We want to stop them from doing it,” he told Sneako, a Donald Trump-worshipping podcaster who is popular in the far-right manosphere. Fishback called these creators, who often make adult material, “hoes,” arguing they should instead choose to be a “a nurse, a teacher, a stay-at-home mom.”
“Say what you want about Saudi Arabia,” he added. “There are no women hoeing out on the internet in Saudi Arabia.”
It seems peculiar to fixate on one platform known for hosting spicy material, at least for those outside of the far-right manosphere that cultivates an audience of teenage boys and young men. But in the chauvinist world of the online right, OnlyFans and solitary sex in front of a phone or computer are major obsessions.’
www.salon.com
The misogynistic future of the fascist right.
Conservativism is a culture of hate: hate for blacks, Hispanics, immigrants – and women.
Whether it’s violating a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare or denying women the right to vote, conservatives pursue an agenda harmful to women – and at times deadly.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the right’s leader – Trump – is an adjudicated rapist and hater of women.
But what is really drawing attention to the 31-year-old Fishback is how he, while running far behind with older Republican voters, generates real enthusiasm with young conservatives. Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times described the packed audience at a Fishback event as “very young,” writing, “several attendees told me they were in high school.” Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler wrote that the long-shot candidate “has captured the most extreme attitudinal aspects of the Gen Z online right.” Fishback is polling at 32% with GOP voters aged 18-32, and his campaign events are larger and growing.
While he is drawing huge crowds, his audience is mostly young men and boys. A key to Fishback’s appeal merits only a fleeting mention in most profiles: his proposal to pass a 50% “sin tax” on OnlyFans creators.
“We want to stop them from doing it,” he told Sneako, a Donald Trump-worshipping podcaster who is popular in the far-right manosphere. Fishback called these creators, who often make adult material, “hoes,” arguing they should instead choose to be a “a nurse, a teacher, a stay-at-home mom.”
“Say what you want about Saudi Arabia,” he added. “There are no women hoeing out on the internet in Saudi Arabia.”
It seems peculiar to fixate on one platform known for hosting spicy material, at least for those outside of the far-right manosphere that cultivates an audience of teenage boys and young men. But in the chauvinist world of the online right, OnlyFans and solitary sex in front of a phone or computer are major obsessions.’
For Gen Z Republican men, sex is solitary
Young conservatives' anger at women is taking a nihilistic turn
www.salon.com
The misogynistic future of the fascist right.
Conservativism is a culture of hate: hate for blacks, Hispanics, immigrants – and women.
Whether it’s violating a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare or denying women the right to vote, conservatives pursue an agenda harmful to women – and at times deadly.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the right’s leader – Trump – is an adjudicated rapist and hater of women.
