While hosting Saturday Night Live this past, uh Saturday, Aziz Ansari delivered an opening monologue which took aim at a number of political topics.
You can watch the whole thing above, it’s quite good, and one of the topics Ansari hit on (pun interned as you will see) was the alt-right movement…
“The problem is, there’s a new group… I’m talking about these people that, as soon as Trump won, they’re like, ‘We don’t have to pretend like we’re not racist anymore! We don’t have to pretend anymore! We can be racist again! Whoo! You know who I’m talking about. There’s like this new lower-case K.K.K. movement that started. This kind of casual white supremacy.”
Afterwards, White Nationalist Richard Spencer thought it would be funny to try to troll Ansari with a tweet saying, “It seems like we really triggered you.”
It seems like we really triggered you?#AltRight https://t.co/2TxQs840rS
— Richard Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) January 22, 2017
Considering that on Friday Spencer got punched in the face on live TV at A Trump protest, some people on Twitter thought that perhaps it was he who had, in fact, been “triggered.”
the academy award for best picture goes to "richard spencer getting punched in his smug nazi face midway through explaining pepe the frog" pic.twitter.com/NRzom6jcWK
— ᴉuoodɹɯ (@MrPooni) January 21, 2017
And by some people, I mean, dozens upon dozens upon dozens… and they all had one VERY common theme.
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/823339198195367936
https://twitter.com/JoeBerkowitz/status/823339687288963072
https://twitter.com/ericlimer/status/823344386297700352
Everyone saw you cry on TV, Richard, and it was pretty funny imho
— As seen on joshcrowley.bsky.social (@jdcrowley) January 23, 2017
.@RichardBSpencer @azizansari Everyone saw you cry on TV. You didn't even get to talk about your frog pin. You just held your face and cried
— Sean O'Neal (@seanoneal) January 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/JasonKirkSBN/status/823366196624027648
.@RichardBSpencer Everyone saw you cry on tv.
— Continuity Ted Leo Account (@tedleo) January 23, 2017
.@RichardBSpencer Something tells me we're going to be seeing you cry a lot more. pic.twitter.com/bCfEKDP4w7
— Heather Bucha Whaley (@HeatherWhaley) January 23, 2017
Richard everyone saw you cry on TV
— K. Thor Jensen 🐀🐀 (@kthorjensen) January 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/timothycsimons/status/823339573803503616
https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/823341016006660096
https://twitter.com/upulie/status/823363572268838912
everyone saw you cry on tv
— I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky (@KetanJ0) January 23, 2017
I've cried, but not on tv and not everyone saw it.
— Lindsay McDowens (@doctormcdougall) January 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/Yelix/status/823338646635970562
https://twitter.com/caitlinstasey/status/823381545734012929
Are you ok hun? It's just that everyone saw you cry on tv.
— Aaron Gilbert (@AaronDelays) January 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/akruglov/status/823351982337376256
It pretty much just goes on like that forever.
Meanwhile, our girl Chrissy Teigen somehow got involved in a Twitter discussion with Spencer on Monday…
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/823546980412563456
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/823595187360464896
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/823596082508787713
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/823596753727422466
Awesome.
H/T The Daily Dot