Have you heard the news? Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter.
Who is Nick Fuentes, you ask? He’s single handedly turning all of the disenfranchised white young men into toxic anti semitic nazi fascists. What’s worse, he claims to be a Christian! Why would Elon let such a vile, hateful individual back on his app? But more importantly, what are we as Christians going to do about it?
Friends, I have the perfect solution. We should immediately do…
…absolutely nothing.
Let me set some expectations for this piece:
This is not a Nick Fuentes/Groyper apologetics work. I have never watched a full Nick Fuentes stream. I cannot and will not speak to what he’s said or done.
This is not a theological or pastoral paper. Even if I cared to look up and verify the veracity of the claims against Fuentes and his ilk I wouldn’t bother. It’s not my job to judge the state of their souls, and neither is it yours.
This is strictly a piece on what the Christian response should be to Groyper inquiries that come from outside parties. Nothing more, nothing less.
The proper Christian response about Groypers is nothing. Seriously, what explanation do we owe, and to whom do we owe this worthless shibboleth? How many lefty points do I earn if I anathematize Nick with my ecclesiastical power as a layperson? Will pagans be more receptive to pro life arguments if I offer Groypers as a political scapegoat?
If anything, playing the left’s cancel culture game costs more lives then it saves.
Think about it; by throwing fascists to left leaning wolves you’re actually capitulating to the left’s larger point; it’s the right who contains society’s most dangerous degenerates. Politically speaking it’s also an incredibly stupid waste of resources. Instead of assembling our forces to combat the left we’re instead militarizing our own tone police to monitor and censor ourselves. We’re enabling the very evil we feign disgust over by our nazi-bashing virtue signalling. While we’re busy making sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed, the left continues to metastasize their corrosive ideology that’s blessed our country with, among other things, mail to order abortions and confidential gender transitions at your local public school.
Lucas, I don’t hate on Groypers because it’s trendy or to appease the left. I hate Groypers because they are evil, and as a Christian I oppose evil wherever evil rears it’s ugly head. It’s not a left/right thing, all evil should be opposed!
You’re full of crap. Let’s do a compare and contrast, shall we? Nick Fuentes claims to be a Catholic. Joe Biden claims to be a Catholic. Joe Biden is pro-choice, a public stance that Catholics do not and have never supported. Do you spend an equal amount of time hating Joe Biden in proportion to your hatred of Nick Fuentes?
Further, which of these bastions of evil are posed to do the the larger amount of damage to our society? Joe Biden is the president of the United States who actively uses his political clout to goad Americans into overturning the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade and establishing the divine right of undergoing irreversible physical and chemical alterations to our genders, age of reason be damned!
Nick Fuentes is a streamer who couldn’t even use his political power to stay on Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign.
It would be one thing if Nick Fuentes was the chair of the American Catholic Nazi Party. He’s not. He has no political power to enact harmful laws to you, your family or your neighbors. Joe Biden on the other hand…
And yet, who do we spend more time demonizing? I cannot stress this enough; going after Groypers not only doesn’t accomplish anything, it' actually helps clear the way for the left to continue codifying degeneracy into inalienable rights. The left wants to murder the unborn children. The left wants to create a lucrative cottage industry around the mutilation of confused teenagers. And they’re winning.
Ok Lucas, for the sake of argument I’ll concede that I shouldn’t fret as much about Groypers, or that I should at least match my energy for hating the left that I do hating the Groypers. But I still don’t understand why we should ignore them. Are you really saying we should just pretend Groypers don’t exist?
Absolutely we should pretend they don’t exist, and here’s why. Groypers will shift the Overton Window back to the right.
What is the Overton Window? Well, the left hates it, which is all you need to know in regards to it’s virility.
Put simply, it’s the idea that political opinions get shifted on the fringe. After decades of activists pushing gay marriage to be legalized it did, in fact, become legalized. This tectonic shift in public opinion didn’t just make the left more left, it actually brought Conservatives over to the left in support of gay marriage. The window in regards to acceptable opinions that you can comfortably express publicly has shifted so far to the left that if you oppose gay marriage you’ll be ostracized by everyone, left and right.
This in spite of the fact the the Leftist Establishment waited UNTIL gay marriage became popular before giving their blessing.
The left does not police their extremists and it pays dividends.
Can Groypers offer the same free service to the right? In many ways they already have.
Have you noticed the large shift in public opinion regarding Israel on the right? The left has historically held mixed feelings about Palestine, but the right has always been staunchly pro-Israel. There’s now a sharp division on the right regarding Israel. This younger generation of conservatives are less enthralled by our “strongest middle eastern ally”, and are publicly expressing concern over Israel’s tactics in regards to the Gazan occupation. You can oppose Israeli policy and still hold on to your conservative bonafides today, something that would have ostracized you not even 10 years ago. This is a benefit that you enjoy solely because of Groypers. Yes, those nasty, vile Groypers helped shift the Overton Window on acceptable opinions that you can express about Israel. This option that’s now afforded to Conservatives came at no cost to Conservatives. It came solely through the free, open source sharing of unacceptable opinions by Groypers. Through their Groypering, the unacceptable became acceptable.
Who knows, maybe one day we’ll be able to express with greater conviction that “reproductive rights” are anti-human. We’ll be able to say without fear of reprisal that parents who subject their children to irreversible gender transitions are monsters. As former president Barack Obama said, a “shift in hearts and minds is possible”.
Thanks to the Overton Protocol, I have learned to stop worrying and love the Groypers. So should you, dear Christian.
Blessed are the Groypers, for they shall shift the Overton Window.