Jack Murphy is what John Murphy Goldman prefers to be called. As John Goldman he was the former Senior Manager of Finance, Analysis and Strategy for the Washington, DC Public Charter School Board. As Jack Murphy, he founded The Liminal Order, a monthly subscription online-club for men to teach themselves to be masculine, manly, etc. He was once the king of the manosphere.
When the Charter School Board discovered what Jack Murphy was saying, they put him on leave and then terminated him. He appealed and lost.
Jack Murphy’s online persona is openly misogynist and xenophobic. There’s even a Twitter account archiving some of it because he’s worked to clean up his presentation. He claimed that feminists need rape, though perhaps he regrets that because this article is even gone from the Wayback Machine.
The Denver shooter Lyndon McLeod claimed to be a member of The Liminal Order. That would be merely coincidental if not for the open misogyny expressed by Jack Murphy and Murphy openly admiring McLeod’s books.
He offers an apology and claims redemption on his site, but since he doesn’t say what he’s atoning for, I don’t think it’s for advocating that women be raped. I think he’s apologizing for pandering his girl friend which, in the eyes of the manosphere where he reigns, made him a unmanly, a “cuck” as they began to call him. Pandering, however, is frowned on by the left and the right.
- Crooks and Liars: ‘Feminists Need Rape’: DC Charter School Board Official Exposed As White Supremacist, Rape Advocate
- The Bulwark: The Decay at the Claremont Institute Continues
- Mother Jones: J.D. Vance Appeared With Podcaster Who Once Said “Feminists Need Rape”
