A Cancer Of Hate Metastasizes Online
The Manosphere Has Become 'Polite Company' For Previously Unacceptable Bigotry
I am well beyond tired of being outraged by things I hear on the internet.
For me, it’s less phased by a lot of the open bigotry that is proliferating online because some of this is stuff I’ve listened to people say on the ground my entire life. Lately, however, we’ve moved beyond casual racism and xenophobia, to levels of hate that for most of us only existed in history books – and propagated by people who themselves would have been treated as less than human in our parents’ lifetimes.
The clip that circulated this week from the Fresh & Fit podcast – a popular podcast in the “manosphere”- expressing, to put it lightly, blatantly anti-Semitic views and embracing of Nazi attitudes, felt like another Rubicon had been crossed.
If you haven’t seen it, and I hate to share it, but it should be seen1, Myron Gaines, who is the co-host of the podcast and goes by “Fit”, asked a panel of guests, which featured a culinary school graduate from Seattle and a stripper from Pompano Beach, Florida, what they thought of Adolph Hitler.
Suzette, the culinary school graduate, thought positively of him and suggested that Jews need to be held accountable for their role in forcing the Germans to engage in genocide against them during the Holocaust.
“They was {sic} up to something, so the Germans wanted to take them out,” Suzette said, which Gaines seemed to endorse, nodding his head and smiling. Walter Weeks, “Fresh," openly says Hitler was “trying to save the world” and “it didn’t work.”
Suzette continued to argue that Jews today are trying to claw back the power and status that she believes the Nazis rightfully took from them, and that they control the government and are the reason for skyrocketing healthcare and housing costs, engaging in a common trope used against Jews in Europe in the lead up to the Holocaust.
Gaines asks what could be done about it, to which Kadriyanna, the stripper from Florida, said, “kill the motherfuckers.” Everyone has a hearty laugh over that. This is the type of exchange that, if you told others you overheard ten years ago, people wouldn’t believe you. Yet, in 2025, you have a diverse panel of people, white, black, male, and female, openly yukking genocidal attitudes against Jewish people. How did it come to this?
