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Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Is a Far-Right Proud Boys and QAnon Fanatic

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos by way of Getty/TwitterVivian Kubrick, the reclusive daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and the director of a making-of documentary on his film The Shining, has been accused of “spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies,” anti-vax propaganda, and violent far-right memes on Twitter.Though notoriously uncommunicative with the press (a normal of the Kubrick household for many years), Kubrick is a vocal presence on the platform. In simply the primary two weeks of February, for instance, she referred to Bill Gates as a “Bioterrorist,” railed towards COVID-19 vaccines (in addition to mask-wearing usually), and posted a hyperlink inviting readers to a personal QAnon dialogue group.Such tweets are solely the latest of Kubrick’s public statements and appearances to come below scrutiny by followers of her celebrated father. The Daily Beast beforehand reported on her conversion to Scientology, saying that she had skipped her late sister Anya’s funeral in 2009 due to an enforced “disconnection” from her household, whereas in the identical yr The Guardian wrote that her mom, Christiane Kubrick, thought-about Vivian “lost” to the church.Three years later, Kubrick resurfaced to focus on the “insanity of tyranny” of the Obama administration at a Dallas rally for JFK assassination truthers led by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones. While she has since been wishy-washy towards the seditionist/radio host, in September 2020 she reiterated her long-standing help for Jones and his present, writing: “I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO ALEX JONES FOR MANY YEARS. I KNOW HOW ACCURATE HE HAS BEEN ABOUT WHAT’S GOING DOWN ON THIS PLANET.”‘Allen v. Farrow’ Is a Horrifying Indictment of Woody AllenMost lately, Kubrick made worldwide headlines when she vehemently disputed the frequent accusation that her father had helped the United States authorities pretend the 1969 Apollo 11 moon touchdown. “There are many, very real conspiracies that have happened throughout our history, are happening presently,” she wrote in a standard tweet from July 2016. “But, claims that the moon landings were faked and filmed by my father? I just can’t understand it!!?”Since that viral second raised her public profile, Kubrick has used her expanded platform to handle many of these conspiracies.One frequent goal of hers are the “Globalists,” a imprecise Hitlerian epithet generally employed by the far proper as an anti-Semitic slur. According to Kubrick, the COVID-19 virus that researchers at Johns Hopkins University of Medicine say has contaminated greater than 100 million folks worldwide is definitely a hoax perpetrated on our civilization by “Globalists” like Susan Wojcicki and Bill Gates in collaboration with each the “New World Order” and main transnational companies in an effort to “destroy world economies” and take “total control over every human beings [sic] lives.” Masks, she argues, are vectors for Globalist thoughts management, and he or she additionally has in contrast the distribution of the vaccine to Nazi sterilization experiments on Jews.Perhaps contradictorily, Kubrick writes usually of her disdain for prejudice towards Jews, typically noting that she is half-Jewish by her father and tagging her posts “#Christians #Jews #Muslims” in an obvious act of non secular solidarity. The late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick Getty Yet different feedback inform a completely different story. On numerous events, she has referred to victims of the Holocaust as “hapless Jews”; unfold a standard, although debunked conspiracy idea linking George Soros, a frequent goal of anti-Semitic alt-right propaganda, to inhabitants management; and decried Lucasfilm’s latest firing of The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano (for Holocaust, QAnon, and numerous different shitposts) as “blacklisting.”Further, regardless of common backlash on-line, Kubrick has thrown her help publicly behind each the Boogaloo Bois and the Proud Boys, extremist hate teams with robust ties to each the lethal Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally (in which attendees chanted, “Jews will not replace us!”) in addition to the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.“I heard a lot of negative stuff about the boogaloobois, but take a look” she commented earlier this month. “I’ll make a bet that 90% of Americans would agree with their aims.” Those goals had been outlined in a digital pamphlet referred to as “The Boogaloo and You” that Kubrick shared which threatens to overthrow the federal government: “Unfortunately, tyrannical governments are not known for willingly returning power to the people, and the more the people pressure them, the greater their escallation [sic] and backlash. For this we prepare. While we may not WANT war; if they do, we will oblidge. [sic]”Kubrick has been much more express in championing the Proud Boys, which was lately declared a terrorist group. In response to JPMorgan Chase closing Proud Boys head (and lately introduced FBI informer) Enrique Tarrio’s checking account, she tweeted that whereas “my own prejudices & ignorances, made me think little of @ProudBoysUS…now I looked at it, I support it!”Later, she wrote that “Proud Boys have as much right to exist as any #LGBTQ group,” and shortly after concluded that Stanley Kubrick himself would have shared in her enthusiasm for the phobia group.“My father was from Bronx NYC, incredibly sophisticated man, but I know he would have dug PBs sentiments,” she wrote.Stanley Kubrick’s life and work are incessantly invoked in Vivian Kubrick’s politically themed tweets. Following the Capitol riot, she captioned a picture of Jake Angeli, the QAnon-supporting “horn guy,” threatening to homicide Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with an axe a la Jack Torrance in The Shining: “I FEEL IT’S MY PATRIOTIC DUTY TO RT THIS ONE [laughing emoji].”She has additionally acknowledged that her father would share her resentment of technocrats and “banksters.” In a tweet tagging the actor Randy Quaid alongside a image captioned “Your DNA will be your data,” she proclaimed, “I have no doubt that my father would [be] against humanity enslaved!”While Kubrick typically posts personal reminiscences and correspondences together with her father, it stays unclear whether or not her Twitter account is managed by her alone or, no less than in half, an out of doors entity. In 1999, she reportedly refused to attend her father’s funeral with out a handler from the Church of Scientology, as an illustration. Then once more in 2016, a fundraiser Kubrick held for The Shining star Shelley Duvall’s psychological well being prices was scrapped due to potential interference from the church.Regardless, the account at present boasts greater than 21,000 followers. Kubrick didn’t reply to multiple requests for remark.Read extra at The Daily Beast.Get our prime tales in your inbox day by day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the tales that matter to you. Learn extra.