Hey, remember Matt Forney, the baby-headed white supremacist woman-hater? I wonder what he’s been up to.
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/773614365211754496
Oh, that’s what he’s up to. Trying to dox a rape victim whose assailant was just released from jail after serving half of his ludicrously lenient six-month sentence.
Of course, Forney doesn’t think Brock Turner is a rapist. Oh, he has no doubt that Turner penetrated “Doe” with his fingers while she was passed out behind a dumpster. It’s just that Forney doesn’t think this counts as rape, or sexual assault, or indeed anything more than an act of rudeness.
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/773979779636822016
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774015843306991616
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774031519178448896
And even though he doesn’t consider what Turner did to be a crime, he blames leftists for it. Because of the sexual revolution, or something.
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774009954814615552
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774010601366515712
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774011050047963137
It’s a strange argument, to say the least, because most leftists and feminists I’ve ever met would have no trouble condemning Brock Turner and others of his ilk on moral grounds. You don’t have to believe that sex is “sacred,” whatever that means, to recognize that penetrating an unconscious woman (or an unconscious man, for that matter) is a repugnant and immoral act. It’s also, of course, rape.
Forney’s excuse for his attempts to dox the victim? He’s angry that “a gun-toting mob” showed up outside of Turner’s house.
Guess what, Matt? Most leftists and feminists I know aren’t exactly happy about this turn of events either. Because we have a well-founded distrust (to put it mildly) of vigilante mobs as a force for justice. We prefer things like this.
Forney, by calling for Doe’s doxing, has made clear that he’s not opposed to vigilante “justice.” He would simply prefer it directed not at Turner but at his victim.
Despite all of the attention he’s focused on the Brock Turner case, Forney still has time to offer his opinions on other important matters of the day.
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/774108721286815744
Such a charming fellow!
@kupo, Alan, it’s a very tough question. I do think that the Spartacus Strategy is worth a try – the only problem I can see is that it’s going to signal-boost his attempts, and it might get people who otherwise wouldn’t care to contribute information, just to stick it to them pesky SJWs. Otherwise, increasing noise on his twitter feed is probably a good thing to do overall.
Well that was vile and lower than snake’s balls. Ahh, Forney. Please, please go change. Maybe you’ll be a better person come morning but I’m not holding my breath.
@Alan
That $64k reference sounded familiar so I looked it up and learned some fascinating bits of info about 1950s quiz show scandals, so thanks for making my afternoon break interesting. 🙂
@ kupo
Glad to be of service 🙂
There’s a great film about the quiz show scandals called, well, ‘Quiz Show’. Definitely worth a watch.
(I was asked once if I’d be interested in being a regular on a quiz show over here. I enquired as to whether they would provide me with the answers. They said no. Boo. Probably just as well I didn’t go for it. They’d have lost a lot of money to the contestants and even to this day I don’t understand the rules)
@Alan Robertshaw
Maybe a public declaration of support. Saying: ”I stand with Emily Doe.”
Hashtag it too.
And report all threats against her to authorities.
@ makroth
I’m just wondering now about Scildfreja’s point about signal boost and inadvertently creating more trouble for the victim.
I like the idea of bombarding the authorities though. Funnily enough just working on something like that for an animal abuse case.
@Makroth
Seconding this. I find this approach to be the most effective when Twitter won’t self moderate. When things get inevitably worse, then maybe as a preventative measure add these sites in the tweets as well:
Speak Up & Stay Safe(r)
Crash Override
DIY Feminist Cybersecurity
Without My Consent
9 Ways to Dodge Trolls
To help show that she has options and support.
I suppose giving them a nonsense lead could be possible, but they’d figure it out eventually.
If one was feeling particularly cruel, one could put out the address of someone else on Forney’s level of terribleness, which would lead to a conceptually amusing situation, but one that’s unlikely to end well at all.
Turner had to be chased down because he RAN when those two Swedish men came along and noticed he was on top of an unconscious young woman! He knew what he was doing was wrong. At this point Forney is whinging about a case that has already gone to trial and the jury found Turner guilty! Hell he’s already out of jail from his ridiculously insufficient sentence!
I wonder how Forney would feel if he were to wake up in the hospital and be informed that he’d been sexually assaulted by digital penetration of his rear end in an alley behind a dumpster while he was unconscious thanks to alcohol consumption the night before at a party. I’d like to think that if anyone were to pass by and see someone doing that to Forney they’d stop and say “Hey, that guy’s passed out what the hell are you doing!?”, if the ‘perp’ then ran off I’d also hope they’d chase him down and hold him until authorities arrived.
Unless they know who Forney is and the kind of bullshit he spews. That might lessen the chance of anyone being arsed to intervene.
He once wrote a blog post that was a literal “how-to” guide to rape. He called it “satire.” That was how I first heard of him. Unfortunately as far as I know no one archived it before he deleted it. I would have done it myself had I known how at the time.
Sorry if this has already been posted. But for those who haven’t seen it yet… here is Mother Jones covering the alt-right “press conference”.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/alt-right-makes-its-main-stream-debut
the Alt-Right…
my God…
it’s full of IDIOTS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm9vVqF8BkI
Matt Forney Pisses his pants! So good.
@ Makroth and Ooglyboggles: Good ideas.
@ Alan and Scildfreja: Good point, however. How to do something constructive without further jeopardizing Ms. Doe or making Forney more popular…
Unfortunately, my own ideas would: a) qualify as vigilante justice, and b) be blatantly illegal. (“Where do you want me to shove that cactus, again? Up his what?”) Supporting her on Twitter (and reporting any threats she may get) may be the best option in this case.
I know I been posting stuff that has nothing to do with what we are talking about but I just want to share as many stories as possible.
http://chicagoist.com/2016/08/10/black_orland_park_culvers_employee.php
Is… is this assbutt honestly comparing raping an unconscious person with homosexuality, polyamory, or any other consensual act between 2 or more people?
@Scildfreja
What’s that banner all about?
Whatever it means, I’m sure that Matt is congratulating himself on his cleverness.
Matt Forney is such a disgusting, vile piece of shit. May his coffee be always cold, may his milk go off days before its expiring date, may his steak either be overcooked or too rare, may the the yokes of his eggs benedict be dry instead of runny, may everything he eats gives him gas, may every woman he tries to pick up pours beer on his head, may he always gets stuck behind someone walking slowly because they are texting and may there always be lots of tattooed women around to make his boner sad. Man, I HATE that vile arsehole! I really hope his doxxing attempt does not work. That poor woman has been through enough. 🙁
I wrote
Yeah, I tried to be snarky and present these as Forney’s views, not my own. That was way too late on my time zone and then I went to sleep without waiting for responses. Sorry.
I do recall David covering Forney before but I didn’t pay much attention so I really shouldn’t try to analyze Forney’s misogyny.
Also, it’s heartwarming that people consider me a regular despite my highly sporadic commenting. I appreciate it.
Nobody should dox anybody. Things are bad enough without everybody doxing everybody else.
This guy is incredibly scummy, but that doesn’t mean we have to be.
At this point I would strongly recommend NOT doing this, especially the hashtag part, because that would boost the signal on a platform crawling with shitty people.
If the circumstances change this might make sense as a strategy, but not right now.
Seconding Alan on the quality of Quiz Show.
@Kat,
That is the Raven Banner; it’s an emblem of various nordic pagans. It’s been popping up again and again in historical artifacts in Scandinavia and the British Isles since the 800’s, and while it’s not a flag it’s a very central emblem of those beliefs. The raven represents Huginn and Muninn, the messenger-ravens of Odin. It *also* represents the Valkyries, who could shape-shift into ravens and did so to observe battles. They were powerful spirits, largely positive, though they certainly represented the justice of the gods being visited upon the wicked.
It’s not a “flag of the Vikings”, but there have been a number of powerful rulers who have used it. One of the most well known is Ragnar Lothbrok. However, he’s far from the only one – the symbol has been minted into coins and embossed into ship hardware, and even shows up on the Bayeux Tapestry on some spear hafts.
I’m not Danish, Swedish or Norwegian, but if you go back far enough into my Anglo-Saxon history, there’s where my deepest roots are. It boils my blood to think that a heel like Forney’s sitting under that banner, and I can only hope that Huginn and Muninn are watching, and returning to whisper into Odin’s ear.
Arctic ape, I apologize! It sounded off-timbre for your sorts of comments, so I’m glad I was wrong!
@David
So for now should we wait and observe after a Twitter report? Because since we aren’t moderators of Twitter nor the police, I don’t know of any preventative measures until after the harassment happens.
@Scildfreja
See ?
Re : the Raven banner. I’m sick of these guys using nordic and/or pagan symbols like they constantly do. At this point I’m just hoping there is an afterlife – it probably involves Odin slapping them repeatedly while yelling “#notyourgodsdamnshield”. Yes, Andrew Anglin, that also goes for you. Especially you.
Re : what to do. I think right now the best thing to do is report, report, report and hope that Twitter does something for once. Probably the only way to avoid boosting the signal. Then again I don’t even have a Twitter account so I probably shouldn’t be preaching right now.