A response to lies and nonsense said by Doug TenNapel

Doug TenNapel (creator of Earthworm Jim and other mediocre-to-bad video games) and Ethan Nicolle (who cares) are mad at me. I wrote a blog post and a twitter thread about their hateful little podcast with Mike Nelson, and Mike bailed on them. I also wrote some more Twitter threads highlighting the shitty things they say about Black Lives Matter, wearing masks, women, gay people, minorities, you name it. I suggest you read all of them.

How do I know they’re mad at me? Because they returned to their silly little podcast this week, and dedicated a good amount of it to me and the fallout I caused.

A lot of it is just rambling whiny bullshit about being canceled (also known as “facing consequences for doing bad things”.) But occasionally they attack me directly, often under false pretenses. I would like to take this time to address those accusations.

They can keep lying about me. I can keep telling the truth about them.

 

1. I “went after Mike” to get to Doug

He went and destroy them to get to me. That’s what’s infuriating is that’s kind of the thing where I step back and that’s that’s how the stuff works, is they can’t get to me because I’m either independent or small or so stubborn. You know, I just never give in. But they can get to my friends. –Doug

Mike was the focus on my original Twitter thread and blog post because he was how I stumbled upon the podcast. I wasn’t just bored at home, googling “Doug TenNapel podcast” and clicking whatever came up. I was doing a search for more content related to Mike Nelson.

And I focused on him in my writing because discovering that he held these views (and was okay being friends with people who held even worse views) was very upsetting to me. As I said, Mike was an instrumental part of me developing my sense of humor. MST3K was my life. To find out that Mike was just another whiny crybaby hypocrite Christian bigot depressed the hell out of me. And it surprised me. I already knew that Doug was a bigoted asshole, as does nearly anyone else who follows games or comics, so no need to emphasize that point.

As for Ethan, I didn’t even know who he was. Sorry.

I don’t keep up with Veggie Tales writers.

 

2. Mike is a “good guy”

He’s an innocent. He is by far the best guy on this podcast. Yeah, he’s a good guy, a straight shooter. And they went after a straight shooter. –Doug

Well Doug, compared to you, sure, Mike is a “good guy” in as much that he never said anything horribly racist. He just said some occasional sexist stuff and laughed at your homophobic jokes.

Good for him.

 

3. I took quotes out of context

The most frustrating thing about it is this guy gets to go out and tell everybody who I am and what I stand for. And then everybody who they don’t know who he is, they buy it. Yeah. And then according to that, they act. –Ethan

Ethan, I’m not going out and telling everybody who you are and what you stand for. You’re doing that by being on a podcast and literally saying who you are and what you stand for. I’m just writing down and repeating what you said.

If they read the quotes in context, I just don’t I don’t believe in explaining the humor or explaining that stuff. –Doug

What is the context for comparing Black Lives Matter to Hitler? What is the context ranting about how there are too many babies named “Mohammad” in London? What’s the context for saying that wearing a mask to protect others from the coronavirus is like wearing a burka and that all masks should have “Allah Akbar” printed on it because if you wear a mask you “concede to paganism?”

You mention in this episode that you’ll wear a mask if you see your elderly neighbors, so will you print “Allah Akbar” on your mask then? Or was that “just a joke?”

Yeah, about that…

 

4. A lot of the comments were “just jokes”

That was another thing that that the article really went after. Would you like to comment on saying that COVID is a fake flu? And I just thought it was obvious it was a joke. Yeah, I thought it was so obvious. -Doug, referencing to a magazine that is interviewing him about this controversy.

Let’s break this one down a few ways. In the many, many, times that Doug, Ethan, and Mike whine about how the coronavirus isn’t all that serious, and that masks are fake, and that it might even be some conspiracy, at no point do they ever suggest that they are joking. On the contrary, Doug and Mike both sound incredibly serious.

In episode 46, Mike goes on an insanely long rant about how he doesn’t think that the coronavirus is a serious problem.

Two episodes later, Doug calls the coronavirus a “fake flu” that will kill no one. Ethan adds that he is “ready to be completely on board with this being complete BS.” Later in the episode, Ethan adds that he think the coronavirus “Is going to completely turn around” by the end of the month (April).

It continues in episode 51 Mike goes on even more about how the lockdown and masks were both part of a “totalitarian nightmare.”

These were not jokes. They were honest beliefs by idiots.

As for the blatantly racist, homophobic, and sexist comments that Doug (and occasionally Ethan) made, yes, sometimes they were jokes, racist, homophobic, and sexist jokes. Comparing Black Lives Matter to Nazis is fucked up. You saying that it was “just a joke” still makes it fucked up. The “Allah Akbar” comment is a joke, but it’s a horrible joke that insults Muslims, people who wear masks, people who are sick, and so on. Hiding your bigotry behind jokes doesn’t make you any less of a bigot. It just makes you a bigot with a shitty sense of humor.

 

5. Doug isn’t homophobic or sexist

I’m not targeting gays. I’m not targeting women. –Doug

No Doug, when you call gay men “homos” and their lifestyle wrong, you’re targeting gays. When you joke that “it’s stupid that we would champion a man sticking his hoo hoo in another man’s butt” you’re targeting gays. When you make light of gay men being killed, you’re targeting gays. When you went on a gay gaming website a decade ago, made an AIDS joke, and never really apologized for it, you were targeting gays.

When you say that women do husbands a disservice by working, you’re targeting women. When you say that being attractive makes women crazy, you’re targeting women. The barrage of sexist tripe you wrote at Breitbart was targeting women.

Doug. You are homophobic (you “jokingly” admit to it at one point) and you’re sexist. That means you’re targeting gay people and women.

 

6. It’s not about civil rights or hate, it’s about politics

And also the people that are coming against you, especially in the US, they’re not just LGBT or whatever. They’re activists. It’s a political thing, but they lump everybody on their side in with them. So everybody who’s LGBT, they lump them all in. So if you take something, you’re taking a stand against their ideology. They turn it into you’re against them being gay. And just if you imagine them doing that the other way around, you know, like if you if you if you reject my right wing principles, you’re against all white people. –Ethan

This statement makes no sense at all and I just wanted to highlight it. Wow.

Also, calling out people for being hateful isn’t “political,” it’s just doing the right thing. Which brings me to their next criticism against me.

 

7. Ethan (and Mike) aren’t as bad as Doug because they don’t say as many bad things

If I thought you were actually calling for the genocide of gays, which is what we get accused of, it’s so ridiculous… –Ethan

Right, I’m not asking you do to anything hideously immoral. And I can’t see how it’s immoral for you to sit there. That’s the guilt by association thing. They want to make it seem like, you know, you’re worse than anything for sitting there. –Doug

If I’m in a room with a friend, and they start saying racist shit, I call them out on it. And if they continue to say racist shit, guess what? They aren’t my friend anymore. Change happens when people are called out on their bullshit and forced to think about their deeds and words.

Ethan and Doug know more scripture than me, but I’m pretty sure there’s quite a bit in the bible about complacency. Maybe they should re-read those parts.

 

Okay, I think that’s all of them.

I figured that the episode would mostly be bullshit. But I didn’t figure on it being so much bullshit that I would need upwards of 1,000 words to counter it. Silly me for doubting their ability to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions.

Funny thing though, throughout the entirety of this 66 minute podcast, you know what word Doug doesn’t say? I’ll give you a few hints. It starts with “F” and has three letters.

He comes close to saying it. To be fair, in those times he’s almost saying it strictly in a discussion about the word itself. He’s not almost calling anyone that word. (See Doug, I do give context). But all those times, he stops himself, and instead of saying it, he spells it out, or says “F” and then stops. It’s almost like he learned his lesson!

That is, until he “jokes” about how he’ll quit his church if the pastor ever says “black lives matter.”

Oh, and then there was his recent tweet, comparing Tom Hanks to literal Nazis because he wants people to wear masks.

No, I don’t think he learned his lesson. Oh well.