Rep. Zephyr 'swatted' days after Humanities Mont. board member promotes website targeting Jews, trans folks
Jeremy Carl had previously cited white nationalist websites to support his anti-Black Lives Matter rhetoric
Pictured: Humanities Montana board member Jeremy Carl has very ‘superior’ sources and talking points.
Just days after Humanities Montana board member Jeremy Carl promoted using a the notorious Kiwi Karms website renowned for doxxing, harassing, "swatting" Jewish and trans folks in his bizarre hitpiece targeting transgender Montana Representative Zoey Zephyr, Zephyr's girlfriend, Erin Reed, was unsurprisingly ‘swatted.’
The Jewish magazine Forward noted how this site likes to keep a “kill count” of how many people they harassed into suicide.
While there was public pressure for servers to stop hosting their main domain, Humanities Montana board member Jeremy Carl’s preferred Kiwi Farms Nazi website still operates on the fringes of the internet and targets Jews and trans folks and disabled people.
Cambridge Dictionary defines swatting as the "action of making a false report of a serious emergency so that a SWAT team (= a group of officers trained to deal with dangerous situations) will go to a person's home, by someone who wants to frighten, upset, or cause problems for that person."
Because the false violent crimes and threats usually reported, not only have people been arrested but several people have died because of ‘swatting.’
The next day, they attempted to do the same to Zephyr but Missoula police had been suspicious.
While a sane person who was not a white nationalist and complete bigot might shy away from claiming Kiwi Farms as a source, Humanities Montana board member Carl wrote in a piece for Aaron Flint's 95.5 News Talk website, "Much of this information about Zephyr was pieced together from posts on Kiwi Farms, a trollish but at times sophisticated online message board..." and praised it's "investigative journalism."
Unsurprisingly, Carl was already nationally infamous for quoting a Nazi organization for a source to support his personal viewpoints, American Renaissance, which Southern Poverty Law Center calls "one of the vilest white nationalist publications, often promoting eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists."
Yet Carl somehow sunk lower in his attacks on Zephyr by using the aformementioned Kiwi Farms website which the tech magazine Gizomdo calls "an online forum best known for harboring stalkers, white supremacists, and overall being one of the worst cesspits the internet has to offer.”
NBC News noted how the website often spreads rumors their targets "are pedophiles or criminals," and that certainly was a lot of the implication the Humanities Montana board member, Jeremy Carl, had intended for Zephyr.
He claimed with zero evidence that "it is possible that (Zephyr) may have been a perpetrator" of sexual abuse just because she played literally the most popular fighting videogame in the world and some of its top players in a tournament out of 10,000 to 15,000 were involved in a sex scandal. Real hard-hitting journalism.
And because Zephyr likes anime—as do most young people in 2023—he made sure to pointlessly note some anime exists that 'sexualizes children.' Wait whu?
These pointless "begging the question" fallacies, which is "assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it" are meant to guide his audience that lacks critical thinking to presume bevause someone is trans, they might possess child porn comics, or maybe have been a part sexually abuse others, but in reality its like saying the town of Helena, Montana exists; someone was arrested for rape in Helena; ergo all Helena people from Helena are rapists. It's fucking stupid.
In other words, I doubt Carl is going to conclude because massive church sex pedophilia scandals exist, we must conclude that every single Christian be synonymous with pedophilia.
Humanities Montana's Carl's bizarre piece not only goes into details about Zephyr's "vaginoplasty" and her "natural genitals" and other private medical information he seems utterly fascinated by, but also creepily shows pics of her she was a minor and constantly refers to her "dead name"—that is maliciously call someone by their birth name.
Real classy person you have working for you, Humanities Montana.
And speaking of minors, Carl claims to have edited a bizarre piece written for high schoolers idolizing Andrew Tate who is under investigation for sex trafficking.
Tate known for saying such gems while seeming to admit to raping a woman as according to Vice News obtained audio: “Am I a bad person? Because the more you didn’t like it, the more I enjoyed it. I fucking loved how much you hated it. It turned me on. Why am I like that? Why?”
Conservatives unironically condone grooming and…rape?!
When someone pointed out Carl may have been behind this seeing as it had his name on it, he seethed and threatened to sue them even though he then literally admitted he helped edit said piece about Tate.
(Note to Carl: as an actual veteran journalist who doesn't use white nationalist and Jew-hating Nazi rags as sources like you do, your claims of "malice" are flimsy af.)
Disclosure: I do presentations for Humanities Montana.
In fact, I am supposed to travel to Butte and lecture about Montana LGBTQ & Two Spirit history for them in early June.
But as of now, I don't feel safe working for an org harboring such people, because there's a strong chance I'll soon get harassed & swatted as well for efforts to educate the public on the real harm people like Carl intend upon us trans folks when he implies we are sexual predators as he promotes notorious, anti-Semitic and trans sites and them edits papers for local schools defending pimps charged with sex trafficking.
I mean, I'll gladly do that presentation on my own dime if I have to. I'll pawn something for gas money to Butte if it means that working under Humanities Montana banner means protecting those who want to see me eradicated.
I ain't rich.
But I ain't a fucking sellout.
I already get enough threats from literal Nazis, why should I have to get them coming from people from the ironically named Humanities Montana?
Fan mail I get. But hey, you Nazis can only kill me once. For I am the Doomerette.
The rest of the Humanites Montana people have thus far hid behind bureaucracy and decorum and condoned their fellow board member's attacks on Zephyr and the trans community with silence despite my telling them all of this for days.
They initially said they have no choice. He is appointed.
Puh-leeze. You always have a choice.
To them, it's simple politics, and they are supposed to be apolitical—even if it means being silent in the face of blatant hate speech talking points.
As a longtime Indigenous and LGBTQ activist, I am constantly reminded how many so-called allies are extremely performative, their support fleeting, as they quickly cower fascists under the guise of civility.
Well, I'm a leftist not a liberal so go home, carpetbagger.
They might huff, hand-wring, and say "That's awful!" and throw up a trans flag or hashtag, but otherwise they patronize us 'simpleton' BIPOCs, and now they pray you dramatic LGBTQs get over being a dehumanized second class citizen—because fascism and Manifest Destiny actually doesn't personally affect them, after all.
One fellow Humanties Montana board member told me they were at an airport, and there are bad people at the airport, so are they not supposed to go to an airport?
This was an incredibly stupid comparison that wasn't even apples to oranges, but apples to potato.
And we are not talking about an airport, but sitting at a table.
And as Dr. Jens Foell noted, "As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
In the fight for democracy and human rights, which table do you want to sit at, and what side of history do you want to be on?
Like I said, you always have a choice.
Either way, as a wise trans woman named Zoey Zephyr once said, “We will not be complicit in our eradication.”
Stay safe, fam.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
~Adria ⬋⬋⬋