BornMarch 21, 1997[1]
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 18, 2011 (aged 14)
Cause of deathSuicide by hanging
NationalityAmerican
OccupationStudent
Known forActivism against homophobic bullying
Blogger on Tumblr and YouTube
Parent(s)Tim Rodemeyer
Tracy Rodemeyer
RelativesAlyssa Rodemeyer (sister)
Websitehausofjamey-blog.tumblr.com

James T. Rodemeyer (March 21, 1997 – September 18, 2011) was an American teenaged-boy, known for his activism against homophobia and his videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying. His suicide was attributed to constant bullying,[2] and led to the proposal of new cyberbullying legislation.

Personal life[edit]

Jamey Rodemeyer[3] lived with his parents, Tim and Tracy Rodemeyer, and his older sister Alyssa in their home near Buffalo, New York.[4] He had attended Heim Middle School in the past and was a freshman at Williamsville North High School at the time of his death.[5]

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He was open about his sexuality, and faced severe bullying as a result of it.[6]Download tinkertool for mac os x. Rodemeyer's inspiration to help others came from Lady Gaga, whom he admired most. He often referred to her in his videos, and quoted her lyrics to provide guidance to others.[7]

Activism[edit]

Rodemeyer encountered bullying throughout middle school because of his sexuality. Anonymously posted comments on his Formspring account included hate messages such as, 'JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND [sic] UGLY. HE MUST DIE!' or 'I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!'.[8] Despite this, he used his experiences to make videos on YouTube under the username xgothemo99xx to help others who were experiencing similar situations. He also made a video for the 'It Gets Better Project', a website dedicated to preventing teen suicide.[2]

Death[edit]

Rodemeyer was found dead by his older sister Alyssa in the backyard on the morning of September 18, 2011, in an apparent suicide by hanging. Before his death, he posted a final update on Twitter directed to Lady Gaga. The tweet read, '@ladygaga bye mother monster, thank you for all you have done, paws up forever'.[9]

Aftermath[edit]

The Amherst, New York police department launched a criminal investigation after Jamey Rodemeyer's death, assisted by Erie Countydistrict attorney Frank Sedita. The investigation lasted nine weeks, and included analysis of Jamey's home computer and mobile phone records. Although possible evidence of criminal harassment was found, these incidents either had insufficient evidence to prosecute or were expired beyond the statute of limitations. The investigation concluded with no charges filed.[10]

News of Jamey's death resulted in outrage by supporters worldwide. Following his death, Tim and Tracy Rodemeyer were interviewed by news media about their son and his struggles against bullying. Both parents took the opportunity to promote peace and equality in the hope of preventing occurrences similar to this.[5]

In an interview with Ann Curry on The Today Show Jamey's parents said that they, their daughter and son were still being bullied, even after his suicide.[11] When his sister attended a school homecoming dance, Jamey's friends began chanting his name in support when a Lady Gaga song began playing. As a result, the very same bullies at the dance began chanting that they were glad he was dead.[11]

Pumper vst free download. Upon learning of his death, Lady Gaga stated that she was extremely upset, spending her days 'reflecting, crying and yelling.' She went on to dedicate her song 'Hair' to Jamey during a performance at the iHeartRadio music festival at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, saying, 'I wrote this record about how your identity is really all you've got when you're in school..so tonight, Jamey, I know you're up there looking at us and you're not a victim. You're a lesson to all of us. I know it's a bit of a downer, but sometimes the right thing is more important than the music.' Lady Gaga later met with President Barack Obama to discuss what his administration would do to prevent bullying in schools.[9]

Also in response to his death, reigning Miss New YorkKaitlin Monte founded an online petition to bring the issue of cyberbullying (known as 'Jamey's Law') to New York legislators.[12] Shortly after, State Senator Jeffrey Klein proposed new cyberbullying legislation. The two joined to launch the New York Cyberbully Census.[13]

In October 2011, actor Zachary Quinto noted Rodemeyer's death as the genesis of his decision to come out publicly as gay, saying on his website '..but in light of Jamey's death – it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it – is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality'.[14][15][16]In response to Quinto's coming out (and in reaction to gay suicides caused by bullying), Dan Kloeffler of ABC News Now also came out.[17]

That same month another teenager, Jamie Hubley, was reported to have committed suicide for the same reason. While he never explicitly talked about Rodemeyer, comparisons have been drawn.[18][19]

The Fox TV show Glee referred to Jamey, when Finn (Cory Monteith) talked to Santana (Naya Rivera) about gay suicide in the episode 'I Kissed a Girl'; it was further alluded to him in the episode 'On My Way' when David Karofsky (Max Adler), a gay student tries to kill himself by hanging as a result of the (cyber)bullying that had befallen him because of his sexuality, although he is saved by his father just in time.

On February 25, 2012, Michael Knote started a memorial page for Jamey after watching a news story about him. He founded a Facebook page and non-profit organization called 'Have a Gay Day', referring to the double meaning of the word 'gay'—'homosexual' and 'cheerful'. In 2012, the American metalcore band, The Bella Donna, produced a song based on the death of Jamey called 'Don't Jump'. The song has clips of one of Jamey's friends speaking on his behalf. The video has been posted at YouTube.[20]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Jamey Rodemeyer'. amigonefuneralhome.com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  2. ^ abAnahad O'Connor (September 21, 2011). 'Suicide Draws Attention to Gay Bullying'. The New York Times. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  3. ^'Jamey T. RODEMEYER Obituary'. The Buffalo News. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  4. ^'Mom to bury bullied son in Lady Gaga lyric shirt'. CBS News. September 22, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  5. ^ abSusan Donaldson James (September 22, 2011). 'Jamey Rodemeyer Suicide: Police Consider Criminal Bullying Charges'. ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. ABC News. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  6. ^LaVictoire, Bridgette P. (September 28, 2011). 'Alyssa Rodemeyer Talks About Continued Bullying of Late Brother Jamey'. Lez Get Real. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  7. ^'Jamey Rodemeyer's Suicide Gets Lady Gaga Angry, 'Bullying is Hate Crime''. International Business Times. September 22, 2011. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  8. ^Sandra Tan (September 27, 2011). 'Teenager struggled with bullying before taking his life'. The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  9. ^ abMacatee, Rebecca (September 26, 2011). 'Lady Gaga Meets President Obama!'. UsMagazine.com. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  10. ^Sandra Tan (November 23, 2011). 'Police determine Rodemeyer incidents not prosecutable'. The Buffalo News. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  11. ^ abFashingbauer, Gael (September 27, 2011). 'Teen's parents: After suicide, he's still being bullied - TODAY People - TODAY.com'. Today.msnbc.msn.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  12. ^'Miss New York Petitions Against Cyberbullying In Wake Of Williamsville Teen's Suicide: UPDATED New York Daily News'. Nydailynews.com. October 3, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  13. ^'Klein, Scarborough, Miss NY, Launch New York Cyberbully Census New York State Senate'. Nysenate.gov. October 13, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  14. ^Zachary Quinto (October 16, 2011). '10.16.11. nyc..'Archived October 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Zachary Quinto Official Website.
  15. ^Zakarin, Jordan (October 17, 2011). 'Zachary Quinto Comes Out As Gay In New York Magazine, Talks 'Margin Call,' 'Angels In America''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  16. ^Keegan, Rebecca (October 20, 2011), 'Zachary Quinto rides a wave of professional, personal growth', Los Angeles Times, retrieved November 6, 2011
  17. ^Kloeffler, Dan (October 17, 2011). 'To Boldly Go…'. ABC News Blogs > Lifestyle > Advice. ABC News. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  18. ^Michelson, Noah (October 17, 2011). 'Jamie Hubley, Gay 15-Year-Old Ottawa, Canada Teen Commits Suicide, Cites Depression, School Troubles'. Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  19. ^'Jamie Hubley, 15, Commits Suicide After Bullying'. News.advocate.com. October 17, 2011. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  20. ^Video on YouTube

External links[edit]

  • Jamey Rodemeyer at Find a Grave
  • It Gets Better, I promise! – the video Jamey Rodemeyer made for the 'It Gets Better' project
  • Jamey Rodemeyer's channel on YouTube

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Born
Curtis Guy Yarvin

June 25, 1973 (age 46)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMencius Moldbug
Education
  • The Johns Hopkins University[2]
  • Brown University[3]
  • University of California, Berkeley[3]

Curtis Guy Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-rightblogger.[1][4] Yarvin and his ideas are often associated with the alt-right.[5] From 2007 to 2014 he authored a blog called 'Unqualified Reservations' which argued that American democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by totalitarianism.[6] He is known, along with fellow 'neo-reactionary' thinker Nick Land, for developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind the Dark Enlightenment.

In 2002 Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform.[7] In 2019 he resigned from Tlon, the company he co-founded to manage and develop Urbit.[8]

Views[edit]

Journalist Mike Wendling has called Yarvin 'the Alt right's favorite philosophy instructor', saying that 'Yarvin's key contribution to the development of alt-right thought was a searing critique of democracy based on supposed genetic 'facts' combined with a dash of intellectual snobbery'.[9]

Yarvin believes that the real seat of political power in the United States is an amalgam of established universities and the mainstream press, an entity he calls 'the Cathedral'.[10] He argues for a 'neo-cameralist' philosophy based on Frederick the Great of Prussia's 'cameralist' administrative mode.[5] In Yarvin's view, inefficient, wasteful democratic governments should be replaced by sovereign joint-stock corporations whose shareholders, all property owners, elect an executive with plenary authority. The executive, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO.[11]

Yarvin originally called his idea to align property rights with political power 'formalism'[12][13] (a concept based on legal formalism). The label 'neo-reactionary' was applied to Yarvin's ideas by Arnold Kling in 2010 and adopted by Yarvin's followers;[12] Yarvin has said he prefers the label 'restorationist'.[14] His ideas have also been described by Dylan Matthews of Vox as 'neo-monarchist'.[15]

Under his Moldbug pseudonym, Yarvin gave a talk about 'rebooting' the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym 'RAGE', which he defined as 'Retire All Government Employees'. Acting as a provocateur, he highlighted perceived discrepancies in the popular attitudes toward fascism and communism, identifying what he felt were flaws in the accepted 'World War II mythology' and alluding to the idea that Hitler's invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America's 'ruling communists', who invented political correctness as an 'extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists'. 'If Americans want to change their government', he said, 'they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia'.[16]

Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog in 2013, when he began to focus on his tech startup Urbit.[4] Six years later, he returned to political writing with a series of five essays published by the Claremont Institute's online publication The American Mind.[17]

Controversy[edit]

Yarvin's opinions have been described as racist, with his writings interpreted as supportive of slavery, including the belief that whites have higher IQs than blacks for genetic reasons. Yarvin himself maintains that he is not a racist because, while he doubts that 'all races are equally smart', the notion 'that people who score higher on IQ tests are in some sense superior human beings' is 'creepy'. He also disputes being an 'outspoken advocate for slavery',[18][19] though he has argued that some races are more suited to slavery than others. 'It should be obvious that, although I am not a white nationalist, I am not exactly allergic to the stuff', Yarvin wrote in a post that linked approvingly to Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, and other racialist thinkers.[5][6]

In 2015, his invitation to speak at the Strange Loop programming conference about Urbit was rescinded following complaints made by other attendees.[20][19] In 2016, his invitation to the LambdaConf functional programming conference resulted in the withdrawal of five speakers, two subconferences, and several sponsors.[18][21]

Yarvin came to public attention in February 2017 when Politico magazine reported that Steve Bannon, who served as White House Chief Strategist under U.S. President Donald Trump, read Yarvin's blog and that Yarvin 'has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary'.[22] The story was picked up by other magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic, The Independent, and Mother Jones.[5][23][24] Yarvin jokingly told The Atlantic that his White House contact was the Twitter user Bronze Age Pervert,[5] though to Vox he denied being in contact with Bannon in any way.[4] Yarvin later gave a copy of Bronze Age Pervert's book Bronze Age Mindset to Michael Anton, a former senior national security official in the Trump administration.[25][26]

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Personal life[edit]

Yarvin's father is Jewish,[27] and his parents and stepfather were career officers in United States Foreign Service.[28] At age 12 he returned from abroad to attend public high school in Columbia, Maryland.[29] Yarvin attended college at Johns Hopkins and Brown University (undergrad) and UC Berkeley (graduate student).[3]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abKirchick, James (16 May 2016). 'Trump's Terrifying Online Brigades'. Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  2. ^Stanley; et al. (1 September 1988). 'SMPY College Freshmen'. Precollege Newsletter. Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at Johns Hopkins University (10): 2.
  3. ^ abcYarvin, Curtis; Bukowski, Richard; Anderson, Thomas (June 1993). 'Anonymous RPC: Low-Latency Protection in a 64-Bit Address Space'(PDF). Proceedings of the USENIX Summer 1993 Technical Conference. USENIX: 175–186.
  4. ^ abcMatthews, Dylan (7 February 2017). 'Neo-monarchist blogger denies he's chatting with Steve Bannon'. Vox. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  5. ^ abcdeGray, Rosie (10 February 2017). 'Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement'. The Atlantic. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  6. ^ abMarantz, Andrew (2019). Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation. Penguin. p. 156. ISBN9780525522263.
  7. ^Lecher, Colin (2017-02-21). 'Alt-right darling Mencius Moldbug wanted to destroy democracy. Now he wants to sell you web services'. The Verge. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  8. ^'A Founder's Farewell'. Urbit.org. January 14, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  9. ^Wendling, Mike (2018) Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House. London: Pluto Press. Page 28–29.
  10. ^Sullivan, Andrew (April 2017) 'The Reactionary Temptation'. New York Magazine. (Retrieved November 29, 2018.)
  11. ^Steorts, Jason Lee (June 5, 2017) 'Against Mencius Moldbug's 'Neoreaction.' The New Republic. (Retrieved November 29, 2018.)
  12. ^ abFinley, Klint (22 November 2013). 'Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries'. TechCrunch.
  13. ^Mencius Moldbug (23 April 2007). 'A formalist manifesto'. Unqualified Reservations. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  14. ^Mencius Moldbug (28 November 2013). 'Mr. Jones is rather concerned'. Unqualified Reservations. Retrieved 11 April 2016. If I had to choose one word and stick with it, I'd pick 'restorationist.' If I have to concede one pejorative which fair writers can fairly apply, I'll go with 'reactionary.' I'll even answer to any compound of the latter – 'neoreactionary,' 'postreactionary,' 'ultrareactionary,' etc.
  15. ^Matthews, Dylan (2017-02-07). 'Neo-monarchist blogger denies he's chatting with Steve Bannon'. Vox. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  16. ^Pein, Corey (2017) Live Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley. Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt and Co: New York. Page 216-217.
  17. ^Yarvin, Curtis (27 September 2019). 'The Clear Pill, Part 1 of 5: The Four-Stroke Regime'. The American Mind. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  18. ^ abTownsend, Tess (31 March 2016). 'Why It Matters That An Obscure Programming Conference Is Hosting 'Mencius Moldbug''. Inc.com.
  19. ^ abByars, Mitchell (6 April 2016). 'Speaker Curtis Yarvin's racial views bring controversy to Boulder conference'. Daily Camera: Boulder News. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  20. ^Auerbach, David (10 June 2015). 'The Curious Case of Mencius Moldbug'. Slate.
  21. ^Townsend, Tess (5 April 2016). 'Citing 'Open Society,' Racist Programmer's Allies Raise $20K on Indiegogo'. Inc.com.
  22. ^Johnson, Eliana and Eli Stokols (February, 2017) 'What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read'. Politico. (Retrieved April 17, 2017.)
  23. ^Revesz, Rachael (February 27, 2017) 'Steve Bannon 'connects network of white nationalists' at the White House'.The Independent. (Retrieved April 17, 2017.)
  24. ^Levy, Pema (March 26, 2017) 'Stephen Bannon Is a Fan of a French Philosopher..Who Was an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Supporter'.Mother Jones. (Retrieved April 17, 2017.)
  25. ^Anton, Michael (14 August 2019) 'Are the Kids Al(t)right?'Claremont Review of Books. (Retrieved August 26, 2019.)
  26. ^Schreckinger, Ben (23 August 2019) 'The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking'. Politico.com. (Retrieved August 26, 2019.)
  27. ^Matthews, Dylan (August 25, 2016) 'The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.'Vox.
  28. ^Yarvin, Curtis (February 12, 2009) 'A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations, part 5'.Unqualified Reservations (blog).
  29. ^Yarvin, Curtis (January 31, 2008) 'How I stopped believing in democracy'.Unqualified Reservations (blog).

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