Tara McCarthy

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'''Tara McCarthy''' (née '''Tarasita Hanrahan''') aka '''Babble77'''<ref>https://archive.is/mYoPj</ref> is a British-American [[white supremacist]], [[neo-Nazi]], [[Antisemitism|anti-Semite]] and [[Homophobia|homophobe]] who currently supports traditional [[Catholicism]]. McCarthy was a former racist [[YouTube]] vlogger who promoted [[alt-right]] and [[white nationalism]] political ideology on her '''''Reality Calls''''' podcast, whose goal was to "help make ethno-nationalist views more socially acceptable".<ref name="ADL17" /> McCarthy wanted to establish a white ethnostate, explicitly endorsing violence if necessary; she frequently co-hosted [[Brittany Pettibone]]'s ''Virtue of the West'' podcast.<ref name="ADL17">{{Cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate|title=From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate|website=Anti-Defamation League|language=en|access-date=2017-08-11}}</ref> If you were looking for runon sentences, [[racialism|racial pseudoscience]], and overt bigotry, you've found your gal.

Though at one time a prolific content creator, McCarthy deleted all of her alt-right and white nationalist content in 2017. She briefly appeared back online in August 2018 to complain about being banned on iTunes.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20170915203008/https://realitycallsshow.com/my-podcast-has-been-banned-from-the-itunes-store/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/9au9sb/tara_mccarthy_is_back/</ref> In 2024, McCarthy reinvented herself as a traditional Catholic.<ref>https://archive.is/mYoPj</ref><ref>https://archive.is/clLYy</ref> It remains unclear if she has renounced her racist beliefs.

==Before finding fascism==
Prior to 2015, McCarthy identified as a [[left-wing]] [[vegan]] {{wpl|Antinatalism|antinatalist}} (against procreation) activist; for example, she appeared on a video "Why I'm not Having Kids" while discussing her [[veganism]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqR-phb3Wkk</ref> At some point in 2015, McCarthy completely flipped 180 degrees on all her views to become an [[alt-right]] conspiracy theorist. Completely forgoing feminism, antinatalism, and her former left-wing beliefs, she now spends much of her time obsessing over white birth rates and telling white people to have more kids, while creating extremely ignorant and racist content. In addition to being a racist crank, she is also [[homophobic]] and [[transphobic]].

{{cquote|I started red pilling I think in 2015, but it took a good 18 months before I realized the political implications of [[racialism|race realism]].|||Tara McCarthy<ref>Tara McCarthy on [[Gab]] ([https://archive.ph/Un13a archive]).</ref>}}

==Race==
===Racialism===
{{cquote|So, it's very reasonable to consider that Neanderthals were a separate species from Africans. Um, and anyway, so, yes, our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, so we are effectively a, a hybridized species. Non-Africans are hybridized with Neanderthals. So that in itself makes us different from Sub-Saharan Africans, blatantly.<ref>{{a|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4C37-CCUq8|2=Deleted by Tara McCarthy: The Genetic Differences Between Africans and Non-Africans}}</ref>|||Tara McCarthy. '''Note''': In reality, Neanderthals represent just 1-3% of Eurasian genomes (a number that differs wildly among individuals<ref>Vernot, B., & Akey, J. M. (2014). [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/1017.full?sid=8f95b8b2-bce0-440a-b1fe-c50e88565925 Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes]. Science, 343(6174), 1017-1021.</ref>)}}
{{main|Racialism}}
McCarthy believes that human "races" are in fact subspecies and race mixing is "borderline bestiality".<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/TaraMcCarthy_14/status/881870149879574528|Twitter}} (see also [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD10tUbXkAAreFC.jpg], [https://twitter.com/vadimnewquist/status/881986648480907264]</ref><ref>http://ruddydarter.blogspot.com/2017/09/douglas-murray-and-fetid-swamps-of-far.html</ref> In particular, McCarthy believes that black people are an entirely different subspecies from the rest of humanity and are unsuitable for Western civilization.<ref>{{a|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkwewTlxS9k|2=Are Africans A Different Subspecies? Tara McCarthy}}</ref> As the [[racialism]] article documents, these claims are laughable. The scientific consensus among biologists is there are no human races; no competent geneticist argues that humanity has subspecies. Simply put, there's not enough variation between human populations to make this claim, nor are human populations (with very few exceptions) geographically isolated.

As a result of her [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] beliefs, McCarthy believes that nonwhites are inferior to whites.<ref name="a1">{{Cite web|url=http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/07/19/alt-right-accuses-adl-of-terrorism/|title=Alt-Right Accuses ADL of Terrorism|last=Geye|first=Ruth|date=2017-07-19|website=Affinity Magazine|access-date=2017-07-26}}</ref>

===Ethnonationalism and genocide===
{{cquote|[[Appeal to nature|I view ethnonationalism as the healthiest way for our world to function in accordance with nature as it has done since the beginning of humankind, and also as the most desirable way for it to continue]].|||Tara McCarthy<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20170720000735/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgthyxE6Do4 What's it like being a mixed race ethno-nationalist?]</ref>}}
McCarthy claims that white people have a right to forcibly remove all nonwhite people from the United States, with methods including both threatening and killing nonwhite people.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqua6MhbSo</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxrAfmHyGM</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtcDXSvst54</ref> In response to the European refugee crisis, McCarthy stated that she hopes that "zero" migrants crossing the sea to Europe "make it alive".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nationalmemo.com/alt-right-ship-human-trafficking/|title="Alt-Right" Ship Detained In Mediterranean For Apparent Human Trafficking|date=2017-07-30|work=The National Memo|access-date=2017-07-31|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/4lternate_facts/status/973339752161271808</ref>

Ironically, McCarthy is not fully [[Europe]]an but has some recent [[India]]n ancestry. This has caused some in the white nationalist movement to disavow her as 'impure'.<ref>https://theroperreportsite.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/impurity-spiral-jared-taylor-invites-proudly-mixed-race-woman-to-be-speaker-at-amren-2017/</ref> In fact, she is willing to self-deport if only pure Europeans were allowed to live in Europe:<ref name=Y1>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAa_yuxMQ54#t=44m08s Q&A with Tara McCarthy [9<sup>th</sup> Aug 2017] {{---}} from min 44</ref>

{{quotebox|If it did come down to it, and I had to live in India so that actual 100% Europeans could live their lives without being disturbed, on that principle, I would be willing to do that [self-deport].}}

In addition, McCarthy's ancestry is partly Jewish, which she tried to sugar-coat by calling herself a "fourth generation holocaust survivour".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tk6ccUVwB4]</ref>

===Fearmongering over white birth/fertility rates===
{{cquote|If Europeans don't start having more children (per woman) [[white genocide|we will go extinct]].|||Tara McCarthy<ref>https://twitter.com/realitycalls8/status/1035204625547382784</ref>}}
Despite formerly being an antinatalist arguing that procreation is immoral, McCarthy now wants "ethnic Europeans" to increase their birth/fertility rates by promoting a doomsday scenario on her website that white people will be almost extinct by 2300<ref>[https://realitycallsshow.com/start-here/ Reality Calls Show: Start Here]</ref> and blames [[feminists]] for attacking what she calls the "traditional family".

====Misuse of overpopulation====
McCarthy misuses [[overpopulation]] as an argument to increase the fertility rate of Europeans because most countries (but not all, e.g. [[Japan]]) outside Europe have higher fertility rates:

{{cquote|Europeans are only having 1.3 kids per 2 parents.

Unless you want Europeans to go extinct, we need to campaign for Europeans to meet replacement rate at 2.2 kids per couple.

Africans and Asians are the ones with higher than replacement rate fertility. #Overpopulation|||@realitycalls8<ref>http://archive.ph/Wr3h4</ref>}}

Her hypocrisy was exposed by a real opponent of [[overpopulation]] who pointed out to her it makes zero sense to want to increase European fertility levels if she was genuinely concerned about overpopulation:

{{cquote|What nonsense. Nearly all countries in Europe have an ecological footprint that exceeds biocapacity, meaning consumption exceeds their renewable production and absorption of waste (see overshoot index.) Birth/fertility rates have to be lowered in virtually every European country.|||@oliveratlantis<ref>http://archive.ph/Wr3h4</ref>}}

{{cquote|You're part of the #overpopulation problem, not the solution: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tara_McCarthy#Fearmongering_over_white_birth.2Ffertility_rates … Birth/fertility rates needs to be decreased across the globe, not increased yet you spend your time telling "Europeans" to have more children.|||@oliveratlantis<ref>http://archive.ph/tXHrT</ref>}}

==Women==
===Sex and Marriage===
McCarthy claims that banning sex outside marriage would prevent grey areas of rape and consent, because marriage automatically confers consent (and presumably [[marital rape]] doesn't exist):

{{cquote|When it comes to rape and consent etc. I agree that current laws leave a lot of grey area. I don't like grey area in law. I'd prefer things were as black and white as possible. And I think the best way to establish that in this case is to make sex outside of marriage illegal.|||Tara McCarthy, in a deleted Tweet<ref>[http://archive.ph/Y6hGP Archived Tweet]</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Well I see so many grey area rape cases that I think the only way to solve this would be written consent. And traditionally that was known as marriage.<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/TaraMcCarthy444/status/945410252949815297|Twitter}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|There wouldn't be such thing as rape within marriage, only domestic violence.<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/TaraMcCarthy444/status/945410252949815297|Twitter}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|There'd need to be evidence for domestic violence, or endangering your spouse, or abuse of some kind. Marriage would be considered automatic consent. Do you really think husbands and wives should have to get verbal consent from each other before sex? Sounds crazy.<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/TaraMcCarthy444/status/945409915476160512|Twitter}}</ref>}}

===Alt-right feminism===
Despite admiring [[fascism]] and wanting to ethnically cleanse the [[Western world]] to create an ethnostate, McCarthy [[stopped clock| doesn't seem comfortable]] with following fascism to its full conclusions when it comes to women's rights. Many women in the alt-right, including Tara McCarthy, have claimed to have been harassed by "low status anonymous trolls" complaining about womz speaking on their behalf and pestering them to have a million white babies.<ref>https://www.buzz.ie/news/alt-right-women-sick-sexism-from-alt-right-men-264332</ref> 
Naturally, a lot of alt-righters didn't appreciate McCarthy's defense of women's autonomy and their role in politics on her Twitter account and accused her of spreading drama and attempting to [[irony|divide their movement which itself advocates dividing people]]. She tentatively privated her Twitter account and deleted these tweets after this backlash.<ref>https://www.avclub.com/alt-right-women-discover-that-bitter-racists-are-also-1821030509</ref>

==Conspiracy theories==
*McCarthy has stated that [[Jews]] are [[International Jewish Conspiracy|secretly planning]] [[mass immigration]] into white-majority nations.
*In 2017, McCarthy accused the [[Anti-Defamation League]] of "[[terrorism]]".<ref name="a1"/> The ADL has identified her as a racist hate preacher.<ref name="ADL17" />

McCarthy also appears to claim that gay pride parades are rife with naked sex, supporting a [[/pol/|Pol News Network]] post.<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/TaraMcCarthy444/status/944802873573105665|Twitter}}</ref>

==Guest appearances==

McCarthy has been interviewed with the likes of [[Richard Spencer]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deaoQpkCde8</ref> [[Andrew Anglin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclCPp9iIfs</ref> [[Styxhexenhammer666]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTw47MTlO1w</ref> [[Black Pigeon Speaks]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94oqYvoZ5Z8</ref> and [[Jordan Peterson]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KWXdDYEz10</ref>

==Bibliography==
McCarthy was at one point working on a book, ''Irreplaceable: How And Why We Must Save The West'', to be published by [[Castalia House]]. The book claimed to be "Designed To Be Normie Friendly So You Can Use It To Red Pill Friends" and "Includes Tips On Living An Alt Right Life".<ref>{{a|http://www.irreplaceablebook.com/|IrreplaceableBook.com}}</ref> The official website gave a 2018 release date. As of 2020, no such book has been published.

==Deletion spree (2017-2020)==

In 2017, McCarthy began deleting most of her online profiles. Her first [[Twitter]] account,<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/taramccarthy444|Twitter}}</ref> Patreon and BitChute were also deleted. Her YouTube channel (which had over 51,000 subscribers and 298,000 views) has also been wiped of all content.<ref>{{a|https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9vwJXx7DR-3zSub4mwQNFg/about|About Tara McCarthy}}</ref> McCarthy's main website and blog was suspended and went offline in September 2020.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20200927202840/https://realitycallsshow.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi</ref> She also deleted her second website.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20200801170402/http://www.irreplaceablebook.com/</ref>

==Reinventing herself as a Catholic (2024-present)==

In 2024, McCarthy reinvented herself as a traditional Catholic.<ref>https://archive.is/clLYy</ref>

McCarthy's Twitter account now states: "Politics is a distraction. Save your soul. #TraditionalCatholicism."<ref>https://archive.is/mYoPj</ref>

==See also==
*[[Brittany Pettibone]], McCarthy's American counterpart
*[[Lauren Southern]], McCarthy's Canadian counterpart
*[[Wife with a Purpose]], another female alt-righter

==External links==
* Her current Twitter account: [https://x.com/Babble77 Babble77].

==References==
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