Support Josh, the disabled veteran shot by right wing streamer "Chud the Builder" in what many are calling a "digital lynching". We must stand steadfast against racial hatred.
Josh is a disabled veteran, a man who has already given his body and his years in service to his country, only to be cut down on home soil by a bullet fueled by the very racialized hatred that the right now cultivates as a business model. This is a digital lynching. Chud the Builder explicitly stated across multiple X posts that he wanted to shoot someone, that the goal of his bigoted, grotesque streams was to provoke a reaction and kill a Black person without legal consequence.
A family victimized by a man with a vendetta for hatred, a man who has built his entire platform and content off the currency of bigotry. This disabled veteran was shot twice in the stomach and once in the shoulder, and we must name it for what it is: a digital lynching carried out for an audience. The streamer, whom we’ve already covered, has raked in over $100,000 off this bloodshed. It is sickening to see how normalized racial hatred has become, how it is algorithmically boosted and monetized.
We have to ask: who is paying for this content? Who is platforming men like this? Who is shielding these men from consequence while their venom turns into lead and tears through the flesh of a working-class hero? This is a working-class man whose life has been changed forever by a paid court jester of the rich, a performer who has turned hate into profit and bigotry into a substitute for community. This is the world the right wants—a world where a disabled veteran can be hunted for sport online and discarded. Our dollars are soaked in the sweat of our toil, and we will use them to show solidarity for Josh and his family.
The family is now asking for support in this devastating time. It will take many months for these gunshot wounds to heal. These are life-altering injuries, scarring both body and soul. So if you can, please give. Please share. Please show your unwavering solidarity for this family, and let them know, and let the rest of our society know, that we will not stand for this hatred any longer. We meet this cruelty with solidarity
