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Amy Schumer Blames Trump and the ‘Alt-Right’ for Bad Reviews – Heat Street

Amy Schumers latest foray into comedy, a Netflix standup special titled The Leather Special, has failed to gain her many new fans, as bored viewers inundated it with thousands of bad reviews. Her fans really hate it, and theyve been keen to voice their dislike. But Schumer blames those bad reviews on the alt-right. She also believes that Trump is out to get her.

Schumers decline in popularity over recent monthshas been well-charted. Jumping from one controversy to the next, the comediennes tired humor about her genitals and her constant attacks onHillary Clintons detractors have become the subject of mockery by other comedians, including the writers ofSouth Park. The public has taken notice.

Can I give half a star? I couldnt even get through this. Amy needs to expand on the joke subject matter a bit and stop talking about her swampy, stinky, lady-business area, reads one review.

All she talked about was how bad her poon smelled, wrote another.

Thousands of the reviews complained about her tired routine. Some commenters highlighted Schumers theft of other peoples jokes.

Schumer argues that her comedy is great and that the only reason its getting bad reviews is because of her politics. Writing on social media, she opened fire on Reddit users, who she blamed for brigading her showdeclaring them all to be members of the alt-right. She also attacked journalists for reporting on the publics negative reception, and blamed their actions on the Trump Administration.

I am so proud of my special and grateful to all the people spreading love on line [sic] about it, she wrote on Instagram. I am the first female comic who is selling out arenas all over the world and so grateful for that.

I am embarrassed for the journalists who report on trolls [sic] activities as if its news. Its indicative of the administration right now. Anyone who reported that viewers arent happy with my special, it would have been cool if you did a moment of research before posting, she continued.

The alt right trolls attack everything I do. Read the @splitsider article. They organize to get my ratings down. Meeting in sub Reddit rooms. They tried on my book and movies and TV shows and I want to thank them. It makes me feel so powerful and dangerous and brave, said Schumer, making no sense of how her detractors bad reviews make her anything other than an unlikeable comic.

It reminds me what Im saying is effective and bring [sic] more interest to my work and their obsession with me keeps me going, she continued. I am only alarmed by the people printing their organized trolling as news this is what the current administration wants.

Or perhaps, Amy, the only reason youre getting bad reviews is because your show simply isnt funny.

Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and media critic. You can reach him through social media at@stillgray on Twitterand onFacebook.

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Amy Schumer Blames Her Netflix Special’s Poor Reviews on ‘Alt-Right Trolls’ – Fox News Insider

Amy Schumers new stand-up special for Netflix is receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews, and she thinks she knows who's to blame.

"The Leather Special" debuted on the streaming service last week, and it's already gotten hundreds of one-star reviewsfrom Netflix subscribers.

Schumer responded to the backlash Wednesday on her Instagram account, citing a report from Splitsider that claims hundreds of alt-right trolls are behind all the negative reviews.

The alt-right organized trolls attack everything I do. Read the @splitsider article, Schumer wrote. They organize to get my ratings down. Meeting in sub Reddit rooms. They tried on my book and movies and TV show.

She also called out the media for reporting on the negative reviews and the fact that her special appears to be a critical flop.

I am only alarmed by the people printing their organized trolling as news. [T]his is what the current administration wants, she argued.

She said the trolling actually reminds her that she is "powerful and dangerous and brave," and that's why she's being targeted.

"Call me a whale. Call me a thief and I will continue to rise and fight and lead," Schumer wrote. "I know who I am. I am strong and beautiful and will use my voice my whole time on this earth."

"Journalists, do better. It's embarrassing. Trolls, see you on the next one!"

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Dutch election aftermath: coalition options and the influence of alt-right – DutchNews.nl

The Dutch parliamentary complex in The Hague. Photo: DutchNews.nl

As the dust settles on the election results, the Dutch papers have been looking to the future and pondering what sort of cabinet the Netherlands is likely to get.

Trouw in its editorial says Edith Schippers, the health minister who has been charged with sounding out potential coalitions, will be looking for a stable majority cabinet. But this might prove too difficult and a minority cabinet might be the answer.

The VVD, D66 and CDA combo does not inspire much confidence when it comes to intensifying measures to protect the environment and the transition to renewable energy sources, says Trouw.

But although the need for the support of ChristenUnie or GroenLinks Trouw dismisses Labour which must join the opposition and ponder its future relevance- is a small beacon of hope these issues are among a host of issues the parties wont see eye to eye about.

That is why Schippers must also investigate the possibilities for a minority cabinet. Most politicians dont like the idea but they are wrong. Minority governments can be effective and successful, as Rutte II showed. The only condition is that the parties want to collaborate and not strive to trip up the cabinet to force new elections, the paper writes.

D66 holds key

The Financieele Dagblad also doubts whether Labour will make up the majority for the next cabinet. Neither does it fancy the chances of GroenLinks, although it would give Rutte III a comfortable majority.

The VVD and CDA abhore the extreme greening agenda and fairer distribution of wealth with which GroenLinks Jesse Klaver has used to try to glue together the shards of the broken left and have said so. And would Klaver himself want to swallowed by Ruttes political Bermuda triangle, like Asscher before him?, the paper asks.

GroenLinks, with 14 seats, would be hopelessly outnumbered by VVD and CDA, with a combined 52 seats, turning any compromise into a capitulation, the FD writes.

However, the key to a cabinet which includes GroenLinks may very well lie with D66, the FD argues. With GroenLinks in the coalition the D66 will have support for their education policy. Both parties want to spend an extra 3m to 4m while VVD and CDA want to freeze education spending. They would also find each other in matters to do with environment, although the ChristenUnie would also be on their side, albeit with fewer MPs, the FD writes.

New player

The NRC looks into the rise of Thierry Baudet whose Forum voor Democratie won two seats in parliament and is the only of the new parties to win enough support from a base of zero.

The paper delved into the support Baudet has from the co-called alt-right, an American extreme right-wing movement whose activities are internet-based and whose following in the Netherlands, according to the NRC, consists of a relatively small group of people on the internet who adhere to a variety of ideas, from libertarian to extremely right wing.

They find each other in the thought that the white western male is under threat from, among others, Muslims and feminists. Like their American Alt right supporters they frequent the internet forum 4chan, the paper writes.

Alt-right stance

Baudet earned the support of the alt-right for his anti-feminist stance. He defended controversial pick-up artist Julien Blanc. His recent comment about the elite which is working on a homeopathic mixing of our population with other peoples so there will never by another Dutchman, was also appreciated, the NRC writes.

Although Baudets following is much broader, he likes to flirt with the movement, for instance by retweeting a photoshopped picture of him with the American alt-right symbol Pepe the frog on his shoulder. He also met American alt-right figures such as Milo Yiannopoloulos and James Ronald Kennedy, whom he called a respected author, the paper writes.

As for Baudets relationship with alt-right the paper quotes him as saying: I think its an interesting movement but I dont know enough about it to make an intelligent assessment.

Whether or not alt-right supporters memed them into the 2e kamer, as supporters claimed, is hard to tell, the NRC concludes.

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New "Alt-Right" Theory: Obama Was Secretly Behind Judicial Halt Of Trump’s Muslim Ban – Media Matters for America


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New "Alt-Right" Theory: Obama Was Secretly Behind Judicial Halt Of Trump's Muslim Ban
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Pro-President Donald Trump outlets and alt-right outlets pushed a conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was the reason a federal judge in Hawaii blocked Trump's revised Muslim ban executive order. The president's son Donald Trump Jr.

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How To Be A ‘Woke’ White Person: Join The Alt-Right – The Federalist

An image has been circulating around the Internet listing 10 Ways You Can Actively Reject Your White Privilege. Take a read, because this is really instructive.

The first thing that struck me about these rules are that the white people who comply with it most fully are: the resurgent racists of the alt-right.

Rule 1? The alt-right usually take up minimal space at anti-racism ralliesthe most minimal space possible. Rule 2? Theyre not likely to live in gentrified upper-middle-class city neighborhoods. Rules 4 and 5? They dont care about the diversity of their organizations, they presumably dont have black friends, and as far as I can tell they have little interest in learning about the black urban subculture.

Rule 6? The alt-right are happy to put a spotlight on the black people who seem most radical and dangerous. They may not follow rules 3 and 7but man, have they got rule 10 down. They will insist to you repeatedly that everyone is racist and theres nothing we can do about it. Thats their whole shtick.

Im obviously being a bit satirical in saying that the alt-right creeps are the perfect adherents of these rules for guilty white liberals. But theres a point to the satire.

Notice that most of these rules are about fighting racism by pushing the races apart rather than bringing them together. Its about telling white people to stay away from your rallies, or at least to stay in the background. Its about telling them to stay out of your neighborhoods, to stop trying to learn your slang or music, and to stay out of conversations about race. Last, most ironic of all, it tells them to give up on the whole underlying cause of getting rid of racism. Way to attract allies and fire up the troops.

The ten rules are condensed from a longer article at a blog for a leftist Christian organization that is basically the First Church of Wokeness. (If youre not familiar with woke, Ill send youwhere else?to Urban Dictionary.)

In its longer version, Im almost sympathetic to the articles goals, because its not really aimed at me or at most of the readers of this article. Its aimed at a certain species of overly zealous white liberalthe kind for whom anti-racism and being down with the struggle is regarded less as an actual cause than as a status symbol. Theyre the sort of people to whom those of us on the Right applythe term virtue signaling, which refers to taking a political stand out of a desire to signal your exalted moral status to peers in your social group. If you describe yourself as woke, for example, it is almost certain that you are engaging in virtue signaling. Its what we used to call moral preening.

But the proposed solution to that problem, to tell white liberals to go to sit down, shut up, and go to the back of the anti-racism bus, just makes the broader problem worse.

The most perceptive and important thing written on the current state of racial politics is Shelby Steeles White Guilt, which is therefore almost universally ignored. At the close of the civil rights movement, he argues, the issue of racism ceased to be about actual racism. Instead, it became a weapon used to take away moral authority from some people and give it to others.

The Left, which had been looking for a way to delegitimize the entire American economic and political system, seized on it for that purpose. Rather than get caught on the wrong side of this wave of white guilt, white liberals adopted ritualistic ways of disassociating themselves from the guilt of racism and shifting that association onto others. The most spectacular example was the overnight transformation of the Democratic Party, in which the party of slavery and segregation suddenly cast off all of those associations and shifted responsibility for the entire history of racism onto the party of Lincoln.

The result was that rejection of racism, instead of becoming a universal creed above partisan bickering, got reduced to a narrow partisan cudgel, a way of beating up people who disagree with you and making you feel good about yourself by comparison.

But now it has gotten out of control, and blacks and other minorities have started to realize the extent to which they were being used as a tool of somebody elses self-validation. So white liberals who thought the system was rigged to make them look like the good guys are now finding themselves cast on the wrong side in an ever-intensifying struggle over who gets to control the fount of moral authority that is racial politics.

Andrew Sullivan notices this and writes an interesting dissection of intersectionality. This is the new mechanism for putting white lefties in their place and subordinating them to the proper victim groups. Sullivan sums it up as a recent neo-Marxist theory that argues that social oppression does not simply apply to single categories of identitysuch as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, etc.but to all of them in an interlocking system of hierarchy and power. In other words, its the Victimhood Olympics, in which the big prize of supreme moral authority goes to the person who belongs to the greatest number of intersecting victim groups.

Sullivan points out the most disturbing part about this religion: it has no paradise, no end point it is striving to reach. It is a worldview with no eschaton to immanentize. The only thing this religion lacks, of course, is salvation. Life is simply an interlocking drama of oppression and power and resistance, ending only in death. Its Marx without the final total liberation.

For the intersectional left, racial conflict is not a means to some greater end. It is the end. Thats what makes this ultimately compatible with the alt-right, who want the same thing. Indeed, you could say that intersectional racial politics needs white supremacists as a permanent bogeyman to justify further conflict.

The Left has embraced a racial politics that doesnt seek to gather people together in a common cause, but instead seeks to divide them into separate groups in a never-ending ritual of power struggles. They had better be careful what they wish for, because at the rate theyre going, they just might get itand smash everything to pieces.

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