Alt-Right Seizes on Purported Manifesto to Blame Chelsea Bombing on ‘Crazed Leftist’
Conspiracists try to pin attack on ‘SJW who hates Trump’ even as police continue to, you know, actually investigate.
KELLY WEILL
09.18.16 3:20 PM ET
The morning after an explosive device injured 29 people in Chelsea, one of Manhattan’s most LGBT-friendly neighborhoods, prominent members of the alt-right community began circulating an unlikely online manifesto that credits liberals and the LGBT community itself for the attack.
The manifesto consists of two Tumblr posts that went up Sunday, hours after an explosive device rocked 23rd Street and a second suspected device, which didn’t detonate, was found on 27th Street. “I’m the NY Bomber,” the blog post claims, with the nameless writer claiming the bomb had been planted in protest of Donald Trump and broader mistreatment of the LGBT community. While New York officials have not announced a motive or suspect in the explosion, that hasn’t stopped some from circulating and crediting the page.
The blog, whose author claimed to be a member of the LGBT community and threatened to plant more explosives, was scrubbed from Tumblr shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday. “I am not going to stand by while there is inequality in my country such as the racism being seen in white police officers all over the country,” the blogger wrote. “I am not going to live in a country where it is OK to have a misogynist, xenophobic, racist Islamophobic, republican candidate running for President of The United States!”
Some of the Tumblr’s earliest traffic came from 4Chan, where users began linking to it early Sunday morning.
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