Human Events host Jack Posobiec took aim Monday at the movement supporting Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing her three children, questioning why so many young women online have rallied around her and connected the case to feminism and socialism.
Posobiec opened by pointing to young women on TikTok and college campuses who support the Democratic Socialists of America, Vice President Kamala Harris, and politicians who support expansive abortion policies. He then turned to the nearly $1 million raised online for Clancy's family, despite Clancy having admitted to killing her three children.
“They've raised almost a million dollars. They say it's for the family of Lindsay Clancy, the parents, mother and father, Lindsay Clancy, a woman who, I want to be clear about this, be very clear about this, has admitted to murdering her three children. This is not something that the federal government said. It is not something that the doctors said or the police said. She said it. She said that she killed her children. She admitted that she killed her children. She strangled them to death while her husband was out. She's not challenging that in court.”
Posobiec said the case has instead raised questions about the medications Clancy had been prescribed, including SSRIs, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants and antidepressants. He said he agreed that the potential role of those medications deserved examination, but said the online reaction to the case went considerably further.
“In court, the question that's come up is whether or not the medications that she was on, big pharma, how much was pharma involved? And by the way, I'd love to talk about that because I do agree. SSRIs, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, antidepressants that she was prescribed, stacked one on top of another, and we're going to talk about that today.”
Posobiec also aid comments supporting Clancy had appeared alongside the fundraising effort, including comments from women saying “I stand with you” and others describing Clancy as a “feminist icon against the patriarchy.” Posobiec questioned how the killing of three children could be incorporated into a feminist political framework and said the phenomenon reflected what he described as a new form of feminism increasingly shaped by social media.
“Many of the comments say, 'I stand with you. I stand with you.' Other comments saying that she's a feminist icon against the patriarchy. Against the patriarchy? What does this have to do with that? What is it about this new form of, I suppose we can call it fifth wave feminism, would lead people to understand, acknowledge what Lindsay Clancy did, but then support her?”
Posobiec also addressed online speculation that Clancy may not have committed the murders despite her own admission. He said the intense social media environment had created a generation increasingly willing to believe its own interpretation of events over people directly involved in a case. He pointed to online videos in which people attempted to reenact Clancy's suicide attempt in an effort to suggest that the attempt had been staged.
“Or to go even further, because they've been so obsessed and overdosed with TikTok and the algorithm, the constant dopamine and cortisol spikes that it gives you, that they think, you know, maybe she didn't do it. She admits she did it. The lawyers for her own side admit she did it, but maybe, just maybe, maybe I know better than all of these people who were involved, including someone who was actually in there that day.”
He said the online reaction to Clancy was part of a larger phenomenon that needed to be examined, particularly as socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America have gained support among young women. Posobiec connected the Clancy fundraising effort to “crime truthers.”
“I've just seen videos, we don't even have them in time for air today, of people trying to reenact her suicide attempt to claim that it was staged. I'm not sure what's going on, but we have to unpack this because when I see the rise of socialism, the socialist revolution, and the young women supporting it, I could show you all the data that shows that. “The late-term abortions, and now almost a million dollars raised for Lindsay Clancy and women on TikTok, these crime truthers. We have to get to the bottom of what is driving all of this. Socialist revolution. Remember, the Bolshevik revolution started on International Women's Day.”
Posobiec opened by pointing to young women on TikTok and college campuses who support the Democratic Socialists of America, Vice President Kamala Harris, and politicians who support expansive abortion policies. He then turned to the nearly $1 million raised online for Clancy's family, despite Clancy having admitted to killing her three children.
“They've raised almost a million dollars. They say it's for the family of Lindsay Clancy, the parents, mother and father, Lindsay Clancy, a woman who, I want to be clear about this, be very clear about this, has admitted to murdering her three children. This is not something that the federal government said. It is not something that the doctors said or the police said. She said it. She said that she killed her children. She admitted that she killed her children. She strangled them to death while her husband was out. She's not challenging that in court.”
Posobiec said the case has instead raised questions about the medications Clancy had been prescribed, including SSRIs, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants and antidepressants. He said he agreed that the potential role of those medications deserved examination, but said the online reaction to the case went considerably further.
“In court, the question that's come up is whether or not the medications that she was on, big pharma, how much was pharma involved? And by the way, I'd love to talk about that because I do agree. SSRIs, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, antidepressants that she was prescribed, stacked one on top of another, and we're going to talk about that today.”
Posobiec also aid comments supporting Clancy had appeared alongside the fundraising effort, including comments from women saying “I stand with you” and others describing Clancy as a “feminist icon against the patriarchy.” Posobiec questioned how the killing of three children could be incorporated into a feminist political framework and said the phenomenon reflected what he described as a new form of feminism increasingly shaped by social media.
“Many of the comments say, 'I stand with you. I stand with you.' Other comments saying that she's a feminist icon against the patriarchy. Against the patriarchy? What does this have to do with that? What is it about this new form of, I suppose we can call it fifth wave feminism, would lead people to understand, acknowledge what Lindsay Clancy did, but then support her?”
Posobiec also addressed online speculation that Clancy may not have committed the murders despite her own admission. He said the intense social media environment had created a generation increasingly willing to believe its own interpretation of events over people directly involved in a case. He pointed to online videos in which people attempted to reenact Clancy's suicide attempt in an effort to suggest that the attempt had been staged.
“Or to go even further, because they've been so obsessed and overdosed with TikTok and the algorithm, the constant dopamine and cortisol spikes that it gives you, that they think, you know, maybe she didn't do it. She admits she did it. The lawyers for her own side admit she did it, but maybe, just maybe, maybe I know better than all of these people who were involved, including someone who was actually in there that day.”
He said the online reaction to Clancy was part of a larger phenomenon that needed to be examined, particularly as socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America have gained support among young women. Posobiec connected the Clancy fundraising effort to “crime truthers.”
“I've just seen videos, we don't even have them in time for air today, of people trying to reenact her suicide attempt to claim that it was staged. I'm not sure what's going on, but we have to unpack this because when I see the rise of socialism, the socialist revolution, and the young women supporting it, I could show you all the data that shows that. “The late-term abortions, and now almost a million dollars raised for Lindsay Clancy and women on TikTok, these crime truthers. We have to get to the bottom of what is driving all of this. Socialist revolution. Remember, the Bolshevik revolution started on International Women's Day.”
