Travis Morrissey — Berkeley Acacia’s Alt-Right Fraternity President
Travis Morrissey poses with members of the re-founded Berkeley Acacia fraternity chapter at a Masonic Lodge. Morrissey claims that “under my leadership the ranks grew to 30 members” and claims to have “mentored underclassmen in an unofficial capacity with regards to their computer science coursework”. For the duration of his time at UC Berkeley Morrissey was a member of the white nationalist Matt Christiansen and Rebecca Hargreaves “Call-In Show” Discord.
Travis Morrissey is the former President of UC Berkeley’s Acacia Fraternity and currently resides not far from campus in the University Village Student Apartment Complex in Albany, CA (485 Ohlone Ave Apt 209, Albany, CA 94706). A white supremacist, misogynist, and antisemite, Travis Morrissey was one of the most active participants in white nationalist Matt Christiansen and anti-feminist youtuber–turned–white nationalist Rebecca Hargreaves “Call in Show” Discord Server prior to it being leaked and posted to UnicornRiot[dot]com.
The official “@calacacia” Instagram account confirming Travis Morrissey’s past leadership position as “Venerable Dean” of Berkeley Acacia. Morrissey likewise claims to have served as treasurer in addition to his role as founder and president of the fraternity.
Travis Morrissey featured in an official UC Berkeley LEAD Center YouTube video. At the time of this writing Acacia is listed on the LEAD Center website as part of the Intrafraternal Council and is said to be “expanding” .
Hargreaves, an anti-feminist traditionalist and white nationalist streams alongside the more toned-down Matt Christiansen, who presents as a 2nd Amendment advocate and anti-Black Lives Matter libertarian. Christiansen runs his own show where he comments on “fake” hate crimes and Black Lives Matter demonstrations as well as other inflammatory clickbait pieces to present a narrative of an intensifying leftist mob threatening American liberties. He hosts alongside Hargreaves who also hosts her more explicit “Blonde in the Belly of the Beast” show and who has interviewed out-and-out white nationalists like Steve Franssen and Brittany Sellner, as well as psuedo-academic antisemite E. Michael Jones and pro-Rape advocate turned antisemitic Orthodox catholic convert Daryush Valizadeh commonly known as “Roosh V”. Together Hargreaves and Christiansen have reported live at the 2016 Republican National Convention for the neo-Pagan white nationalist media site “Red Ice TV”and were spotted chatting with the then–head of Identity Evropa, Nathan Damigo. Hargreaves has also appeared on the white nationalist podcast “Radio 3Fourteen”and together with Christiansen hosts the “Matt and Blonde Show (previously called “Beauty and the Beta”) as well as the “Call in Show”.
Redacted “meme” of the 2019 Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant shared by Travis Morrissey as user “Big T” in the Matt Christiansen and Rebecca Hargreaves “Call-In Show” Discord Server.
As the fourth most active participant in the “Call in Show” Discord Server, Travis Morrissey facilitated and joined at least one Bay Area meetup for listeners of the show and for the large duration of his time in the chat was attending UC Berkeley, which he described as “antifa country”, an “antifa stronghold” and “behind enemy lines”. As user “Big T”, Morrissey shared memes glorifying the perpetrator of the Christchurch shooting, Brenton Tarrant, and eagerly shared archived footage of the attack as it happened in 2019. Morrissey was also a member of the discord of Carl Benjamin, a UK based anti-feminist, anti-Muslim far-right personality and failed UKIP parliamentary candidate who infamously tweeted out “I wouldn’t even rape you #AntiRapeThreats #FeminismIsCancer” to Labor Party Parliament member Jesse Phillips, resulting in a wave of harassment and threats being directed toward her. Morrissey, as a fan of both Benjamin and Hargreaves, has argued for repealing the 19th amendment (which prohibits the denial of the right to vote on the basis of sex) stating, “ive actually gotten a few women on board with it, you start with getting them thinking about how much they hate other women, and then add in how irrational and emotional their decisions are”.
Within the Call In Show discord, Morrissey shared the dox of students he believed to be “antifa”, argued in favor of allowing lolicon (anime pornography depicting underage children), lowering the age of consent to 16, and discussed upping his ammo purchases for “ala ferguson style” (riots). He additionally championed Jordan Peterson and pondered “what do we do with the population of people who have an iq < 85ish”. Self-identifying as a Libertarian who claims to believe in the principle of “volunteerism” like Christiansen, Travis Morrissey is really just a white supremacist hiding from labels that might get him in hot water, while championing views held by the likes of Hargreaves who may be too “edgy” to celebrate on their face. Morrissey has additionally expressed a vicious hatred for the local unhoused population of Berkeley and claims “i also beat up junkies for a hobby. 😛 (sic)” and “having lived in both WA and the bay area, i have zero sympathies for homeless.“ While in Christiansen and Hargreaves Discord he facilitated and attended local meetups and expressed repeated disdain for UC Berkeley’s self-proclaimed values of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” which coincidentally are values cited on Acacia’s website at acacia[dot]org.
“HENCE why its a strawman to call them pedos,” Morrissey carrying on the Libertarian tradition of dying on the hill of the demarcation of ephebophilia and pedophilia regarding a discussion of free speech on Gab and “Lolicon” pornography.
Morrissey arguing for the lowering of the age of consent to 16 “with a romeo and juliet clause as well”
Meme shared repeatedly by Morrisey in the “Call-In Show” Server poking fun at sexual assault
Meme posted by Travis Morrissey trivializing the Holocaust, Transatlantic Slave Trade, and violence at the hands of ICE/Border Patrol.Anti-Black meme posted by Morrissey, invoking and seemingly supporting the Ku Klux KlanMorrissey claiming that he regularly assaults un-housed people in Berkeley.
On March 15, 2019 the day of the Christchurch attack, Morrissey shared a dropbox link to a ripped stream of the massacre saying, “found the full livestream of the mosque shooting. lol he says ‘subscribe to pewdiepie'”. Later the same day he said “i have uppers that need lowers -wink wink-, just put them in a non descript brown box and send them via the postal service. i swear im not an atf agent 😉” (referring to upper and lower receivers of an AR-15) he later went on to joke with another poster that he had “14 shotguns” “with 88 boxes of slugs” referencing the common neo-Nazi dogwhistle “14/88“. He then went on to matter-of-factly discuss Tarrant’s massacre of 51 people and share another bitchute link of the attack. When one user joked he wanted to get an AR “so I can shoot up my… local range target” Morrissey responded “lol #paperlivesmatter”. Morrissey would often spam violently anti-Black memes in the discord and occasionally use the n-word for “comedic” effect, as well as promote anti-Black slogans like “13/50” (a tired but oft-touted myth among white supremacists that Black people constitute thirteen percent of the population but commit fifty percent of crimes) and reference “Black crime statistics”. Months later in the discord Morrissey made reference to the “Boogaloo” a far-right and racist meme detailing a hypothetical second civil war, encouraged a user to “yell the south will rise again, and give a rebel yell,” and described a B.A. in African-American Studies as “a worthless degree”.
Morrissey sharing the link to the livestream of the 2019 Christchurch shooting hours after it happened. “lol he says ‘subscribe to pewdiepie,'” Morrissey notes.
As an ideological racist and libertarian, Morrissey argued about the libertarian concept of the NAP (Non-Aggression Principle) with various alt-right adherent fans of Christiansen and Hargreaves’ call in show, and talked on numerous occasions of a “libertarian outlook“ on reparations to slave owners stating “whenever ppl talk about illegal immigration as being a net positive to GDP, i always love throwing out that slavery is also a net positive to GDP. labor costs are fixed under slavery.”
“whenever ppl talk about illegal immigration as being a net positive to GDP, i always love throwing out that slavery is also a net positive to GDP. labor costs are fixed under slavery.”
All the while posting in the “Call in Show” Discord, Morrissey was active in UC Berkeley’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers club, and “re-founded the California chapter of Acacia Fraternity” holding a position of President and Treasurer. While President of Acacia Fraternity (which has a physical location on Frat Row: 2340 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA) Morrissey boasts that “under my leadership the ranks grew to 30 members” and claims to have “mentored underclassmen in an unofficial capacity with regards to their computer science coursework”. This is concerning as Acacia has a history of abuse and racism scandals, with numerous chapters including those at Purdue, LSU, and Baton Rouge all suspended at one point for sexual harassment or rape, including underage drinking preceding sexual assault. Acacia chapters, some of which are referred to as “colonies,” have additionally faced scandals following racist incidents like at Bloomsburg University where fraternity members “allegedly traded racist messages, usingthe n-word and swear(ed) off permitting black members”(https://buvoice.com/3388/news/bloomsburg-university-fraternity-members-caught-trading-racist-messages-on-social-media/). This widespread culture of sexual misconduct and racism appears so severe that a pdf shared publicly on Acacia’s official website titled “Parties Gone Wrong” specifically instructs and reminds Acacia members not to wear Klan hoods or wear Blackface amongst other racist and bigoted party themes. The paper notes that “your chapter’s bad judgment could show up on YouTube or Facebook” and that “these organizations faced a loss of recognition as a result of these parties (depicted)”.
Morrissey poses alongside newly recruited Acacia Fraternity “brothers”. While in the “Call-In Show” server he encouraged other Alt-Right members to “hide their power level” and hide their racist beliefs while gradually indoctrinating others into their white supremacist worldview.
With numerous commenters on GreekRank[dot]com describing Berkeley Acacia as a “bottom tier” fraternity, other comments prove much more concerning with users posting “My friend was taken advantage of here. Bottom house.” and numerous posts reviewing the fraternity with 1.0-2.0 reviews out of five citing “creepy” behavior from fraternity members. Acacia was shut down briefly around 2017 but was re-founded by Morrissey and is currently “continuing to expand” according to the UC Berkeley LEAD Center website which lists Acacia on its spreadsheet for the Intrafraternal Council (IFC) last updated Spring 2021.
Equally concerning is the fact that Morrissey himself bragged often about violence within the “Call in Show” discord, recounting a fight where he “tried going for the nuts, but couldnt reach. so i reached back and managed to shove my thumb into his eye socket to the first knuckle and started fishing around in there. he screamed like a bitch and let go.”. Always one to self promote, Travis’s other favorite anecdote is when he “gutted a wannabe blood gangster”, which he recounted to the chat saying, “was at a house party last saturday with a bunch of them, and a bunch of us got together and this cute german chick wanted everyone to either tell their most embarressing story or their most exciting one. of course she wanted me to go first and wanted my most exciting. i picked a good one about how i once stabbed someone. lol bro after i told that story, i swear some of them acted like they had ptsd.” Morrissey also repeatedly refers to his practice of Muy Thai, a form of martial arts kick boxing originating in Thailand, and claims that he trains regularly in a fight gym with a boxing ring in Oakland.
“when the lefties here in berkeley assume im one of them by virtue of ‘niceness’ and their preconceived notions of what the ‘other’ is, makes me giggle so much. its like a massive inside joke at their expense lol”
As an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student, Morrissey was a participant in the EECS Discord Server as well, and led a “raid” on the student server, posting the link to the “Call in Show” server where various white nationalists and neo-Nazis attempted to “redpill” the computer science students. Previously stating “when the lefties here in berkeley assume im one of them by virtue of “niceness” and their preconceived notions of what the “other” is., makes me giggle so much. its like a massive inside joke at their expense lol (sic),”. It’s clear that although unwilling to openly advocate his bigoted viewpoints, Morrissey attempted to push his politics on Berkeley students on the sly telling other members of the discord to “…hide your power level”, which is a common attempt by deeply avowed and organized bigots to avoid risk and enjoy a consequence-free experience of life by being duplicitous with those around them. Posing as a Trotskyist “NazBol” or National Bolshevik going by the username “Permanent Revolution” Morrissey invited a plethora of white nationalists to the EECS discord, including one going by the name “FitnessByHeatherHeyer” (mocking the death of the anti-racist protestor murdered by white nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA). Morrissey had previously stated in the “Call in Show” server that he believed James’s vehicular attack was self-defense. During the EECS Discord raid, Morrissey advanced numerous Third Positionist (neo-fascist) talking points half attempting to gain traction, half hoping to impress the members of the “Call in Show” server. “You a NazBol as well?” Morrissey wrote, “A space for every race, and a chicken in every pot.” he later pushed a more openly antisemitic line, claiming “there were certain… subversive forces… that destroyed any real opportunity for a truly nationally conscious workers’ uprising”.
“you could probably do some JQ (Jewish Question) trolling there” Morrissey notes before inviting numerous white nationalists into the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Discord.Morrissey attempting to “redpill” EECS students towards National Bolshevism and failing miserably.One outright neo-Nazi invite into the EECS discord by Travis Morrissey: “Does this mean you guys don’t wanna help usher in the 4th reich? It’s gonna be sweet, we have funnel cake” notes user FitnessByHeatherHeyer, a username mocking the death of anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a fascist James Alex Fields Jr. in the vehicular attack at the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” Rally.
While within the “Call in Show” Server Morrissey sprinkled his antisemitism throughout his almost 23,000 archived messages – limited mostly to various “spicy memes” mocking the Holocaust and using the triple parentheses dogwhistle. He did however brag often about taking one semester of German, often spamming “Deutschland uber alles” and “wir mussen die Juden ausrotten (we must exterminate the Jews)” yet hid behind the deniability of just making an edgy joke. Yet within the EECS server under a completely anonymous username he became much more open, attempting to push an explicitly antisemitic worldview onto his classmates saying “all the capitalist can do is cry out in pain as he strikes.” referencing the common antisemitic slogan “the jew cries out in pain as he strikes you”. What the EECS raid appears to communicate is Morrissey’s intentional (if somewhat crude and ineffective) attempt to recruit fellow EECS students to an antisemitic worldview. Believing most of the EECS students were anti-capitalists due to some Marxist and semi-ironic pro-Communist Party of China memes shared, he tailored his entire approach to his perceived audience. Morrissey and most of the “Call in Show” accounts appear to have been banned from the server, shortly following.
“At the end of the day, all the capitalist can do is cry out in pain as he strikes.”
Morrissey’s anti-Asian and anti-Muslim racism are also important to highlight. In one instance Morrissey describes that he, “. . . almost got ran over in my university owned apartment complex by an asian woman in a cadillac . bitch blew the stop sign with out even bothering to slow down. report her ass to the office (school employees) and they go on about how i shouldnt call the cops because shes a ‘woman of color’ and that would escalate things. ya know…because cops are racist”. Morrissey claims that he “confronted her about that, had her daughter in the car and everything” and stated “if we’re going to go that route of ‘no cops’ then ima enact some street justice” going on to say, “dont piss off an ex mechanic and expect your car to be safe to drive after, either that or i’ll expose her to the great leap foward”. Morrissey later stated that “. . . with an attitude like that, i wouldnt even hate fuck her”. Morrissey also remarked in the discord that “muslim women in western countries kill my faith in humanity” and “those chinese can fuck off, got a ton of them here advocating for communism”.
The fact that an avowed, outspoken bigot has attained an influential role in shaping the politics of Frat Row at UCB is unsurprising, considering the institution’s track record of the last five years. Unwavering support has been shown to the Berkeley College Republicans, a student group which has maintained ties to openly racist, white supremacist organizations such as Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement, Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman of the since-disbanded Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights (F.O.A.K.) and the “Proud Goys” chat, Unite the Right organizer Chris Cantwell and others. Since the infamous community shutdown of Milo Yiannopoulos in February of 2017, UCB has doubled down on ensuring the right and ability of BCR to invite far-right, alt-right and blatantly white nationalist speakers to the school. Despite repeated urgings to keep students safe rather than providing opportunities for fascists to congregate and organize on their campus, UCB administration has instead offered “point – counterpoint panels” and First Amendment “exploration events” – all while BCR invites hundreds of local and regional fascist organizers and sympathizers to generally run amok in Berkeley. In the summer of 2017 Chancellor Carol Christ launched “Free Speech Year” in full support of hosting various far right racialist agitators, including Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Rick Santorum, Charlie Kirk, Sean Spicer and more recently, Ann Coulter. When criticized, Christ retorted that the best response to hate speech is more speech, and inner resilience is “the best form of safe space”, insinuating that students needed to toughen up and not be concerned with the fact that every BCR-sponsored event at UCB has drawn numerous fascists of various affiliations, including Proud Boys, Golden State Skinheads, and others with blatantly violent ambitions. Multiple accounts of harassment, intimidation and violence have been noted in conjunction with each event, but UCB hasn’t seen that as a significant issue. With the tacit approval of school administration, white nationalist organizing at Berkeley is likely to continue to proliferate.
It’s rare for an outspoken bigot who is obsessed with violence and who continually re-iterates their racism, misogyny, antisemitism, and other forms of hatred to keep their activities confined strictly to online rhetoric. In this case, Morrissey has shown admiration for a mass shooter, fetishized underage girls, joked repeatedly about rape and bragged of violent actions toward Black and Asian people, people who use drugs and unhoused people. He claims to be an advanced level martial arts practitioner and to be armed. For all of these reasons, we consider Travis Morrissey to be a threat to the community. If you have information about him and/or any of his fascist activities, please report them to us at Bay161 at riseup dot net.
Travis Morrissey appears to be currently unemployed and is looking for tech work having recently graduated.
He currently lives at 485 Ohlone Ave Apt 209, Albany, CA 94706.
He drives a grey 2005 Honda VTX1300S motorcycle CA License #: 18H2636 and a Blue Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle CA License #: 23P0493.
The full content of his messages as user “Big T (Discord ID: 297516168321957889) can be found hosted online at Unicorn Riot’s Far Right Investigations Desk:
Morrissey drinking with some buddies at an unverified Berkeley area bar. Morrissey has also noted he drinks at Kip’s Bar & Grill from time to time.
“NOTABLE ACACIANS”
In addition to the white supremacist leadership of Travis Morrissey in the re-foundation of Acacia at UC Berkeley (2019-2021) following its suspension in 2017, (there is speculation that “national” pulled the plug on the Berkeley chapter due to member misconduct), Acacia in fact has a long history of harboring, and even championing race scientists, segregationists and associates of the Ku Klux Klan. All Alumni discussed below are currently featured on Acacia’s website under the heading Notable Acacians and are likewise celebrated on their official website, meant to inculcate in prospective candidates and active members a sense of pride in the fraternity’s lineage and history. This list is only a sampling of five “Notable Acacians” listed on acacia[dot]org.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
President Taft (an Acacian at Yale, graduated 1913) developed a reputation as a protector of Jim Crow rule during his presidency, announcing in his inaugural address that he would not appoint Black people to federal jobs in what came to be known as his “Southern Policy”. Taft followed through by removing most Black office holders in the South and thus invited white supremacist retaliation and “redemption” against the states former employees. In the 1927 case Lum v. Rice, Taft wrote in favor of extending school segregation to children of Chinese ancestry which passed unanimously. Taft likewise described Junípero Serra, the colonial architect of the genocidal California Mission system as building “the beginning of civilization in California”.
Arthur Capper (1865-1951)
The twentieth governor of Kansas from 1915-1919, and later senator from 1919-1949, Capper attended Kansas State University and graduated as an Acacian in 1916. In 1923 as senator Capper introduced an anti-miscegenation constitutional amendment outlawing “mixed-race marriages” but relented due to outcry from civil rights organizations.
Stratton D. Brooks (1869-1949)
Acacian (University of Missouri, 1925) and the president of the University of Oklahoma (1912), and later University of Missouri (1923), Brooks found himself involved in a political battle between then Oklahoma Governor John C. Walton and Edwin DeBarr, the OU vice president who had openly opposed Walton and supported his rival Robert H. Wilson. Brooks spoke out stating “…the educational system must be removed as far as possible from political maneuvering,…(T)he university organization has been used against me by Yankee republicans and I believe that it should be in democratic hands.” Both Robert H. Wilson and Edwin DeBarr, Brooks associate and vice president were active members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Ovie Clark “O.C.” Fisher (1903-1994)
As representative for Texas’s 21st congressional district (1943-1974) Ovie Clark Fisher was one of five representatives from Texas to sign on to the so-called “Southern Manifesto,” a response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that proclaimed to “resist forced integration by any lawful means” and played upon the same lost cause narratives that mobilized the Ku Klux Klan and other forms of white vigilantism after the defeat of the Confederate States of America.
Steven Scalise (1965-Present)
Republican representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district and Acacain at Louisiana State (1986), Scalise has been described by the Washington Blade as having “the most anti-LGBT reputation of any lawmaker”. Scalise opposed the repeal of the US military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy and opposed the classification of anti-LGBTQ attacks as hate crimes. Scalise additionally supported Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, and in 2002 spoke at the convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1974-1980) and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 81st District (1989-1992) David Duke.
