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The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming
Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention.By RACHELLE HAMPTON
APRIL 23, 20195:45 AM
Shafiqah Hudson remembers the moment she realized something was off. She saw a tweet from an account she had never seen before: “#EndFathersDay because I’m tired of all these white women stealing our good black mens.” Something about the grammar—not to mention the idea that black women wanted to abolish Father’s Day because of interracial dating—just felt too cartoonish to be real. That day, Hudson, who tweets as @sassycrass, had a job interview. It was June of 2014, the Friday before Father’s Day. As she typed out her follow-up thank-you note and went through what she calls “the unemployment shuffle,” toggling between social media and email and playing with her cat, she spotted some reactions from people she followed to other suspiciously inflammatory tweets posted by a handful of new Twitter accounts claiming to be black feminists. “#EndFathersDay,” read one. “We’ll bring it back when men stop raping and killing us.”
Hudson began to dig, following “this trail of terrible tweets.” She asked if anyone on her timeline had any idea what was up. No one she knew could verify that the women behind these accounts actually existed. No one had met them in person or encountered them on earlier blogging platforms like LiveJournal or Tumblr or BlackPlanet. Many of the accounts didn’t follow the feminists they were parroting or even the tastemakers of Black Twitter, like Desus and Mero. But more than anything, Hudson said, the clearest red flag was the accounts’ inability to hide their contempt for the very people they were attempting to imitate. They tweeted about collecting welfare checks and smoking weed, with an occasional screed against white people. And most of these accounts spoke a version of African American Vernacular English that no real black person had ever used. “#EndFathersDay,” said one, “until men start seeing they children as more then just ‘fuck trophies.’ ” To casual observers online, #EndFathersDay appeared to be the work of militant feminists, most of whom were seemingly women of color. To Hudson, the ruse was never anything but transparent. “No one who knew or liked a black feminist,” she told me, “was fooled.” But the hashtag was already trending worldwide.
More:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html
The Internet Rallying to Defend a Fan's Tearful Reaction to The Rise of Skywalker Is What Fandom Is
https://www.themarysue.com/rise-of-skywalker-trailer-reaction-defense/Some Tweets
https://twitter.com/heathercampbell/status/1117942879412834305?
https://twitter.com/NY_Comic_Con/status/1117993718496231424?
https://twitter.com/BeingKrennic/status/1118590602168287233
There is still good on the Internet
Emerge event (May 31-June 2) has David Hogg & Emma Gonzalez as guest speakers
https://emergelv.com/The intersection of social justice, art and music: Emerge is a community rooted in an annual gathering where inspired change makers are entertained and engaged through programming that moves them to imagine and create a better world.
Join us in Las Vegas, for two days of exploration through live music, passionate storytelling, progressive art, crafted parties and immersive experiences.
Alex Jones goes on Logan Pauls podcast to corrupt the youth with his lies
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/alex-jones-to-appear-on-logan-pauls-podcast.htmlLogan Paul’s audience is mostly young adults and children.
A Twitter user has documented what was said during the podcast
https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1116133774834700288
https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1116154055288655873
https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1116154552984788992
A hard look into edgy humor and how it can lead into Stochastic Terrorism
This video examines the Alt Right Pipeline and the Pyramid of Violence that leads from implicit bias to edgy humor to violence.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
This video contains:
-Racist symbols and imagery
-Racist rallies and hate speech
(explicit slurs have been removed)
-Discussion of the Charlottesville tragedy
-Confrontations between racists and ethnic minorities/Native Americans
I hope everyone here takes this seriously and spares some time to watch the video.
Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre
March 15, 2019 By Robert Evans
On Friday, March 15th, one or more gunmen opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. As I write this, three men and one woman have been taken into custody by local law enforcement. It is unclear to what extent they were all involved. The only thing we know is that one of the shooters went by the name Brenton Tarrant on Twitter. He posted pictures of the murder weapons there two days before the rampage. Said weapons are clearly visible in the video of the spree he livestreamed to Facebook.
Shortly after the spree ended, New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed that several improvised explosive devices had been disarmed by authorities. If those devices were meant as some kind of booby trap, they were not the only trap “Brenton” left behind. Immediately before carrying out his spree, he posted links to a manifesto on Twitter:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/
Plenty of good insights into the shooters thought process and the dark part of online culture
Roger Stone's Proud Boys "Volunteers" Have Been Defending Him Online After The Judge Entered A Gag O
Source: buzzfeednews
WASHINGTON — Questioned in court last week about his recent Instagram post featuring a photo of the judge presiding over his case with what resembled a crosshairs symbol, Roger Stone said under oath that a "volunteer" found the image. He insisted he couldn't recall who exactly, though, and struggled to identify the five or six people he said were serving as his volunteers at the time.
The names he offered after being pressed by the prosecutor underscored Stone's ties to the Proud Boys, a far-right, men-only extremist group that describes its members as "Western chauvinist." The four men identified by Stone are all active on social media, and several continued to post about Stone's case after US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed a strict gag order Thursday — an order that limits not only what Stone can say in public and online, but what his surrogates and volunteers can say on his behalf.
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Stone identified Enrique Tarrio, Tyler Whyte, Jacob Engels, and Rey Perez as his volunteers. Tarrio is chair of the Proud Boys and last week sat behind President Donald Trump during a speech in Miami wearing a T-shirt that said "Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong!" Whyte leads a Proud Boys chapter in Florida. Engels has been involved in Proud Boys activities, but says he's a journalist embedded with the group, not a member. Perez identified himself on Facebook as a member of the Proud Boys and was at Stone's house in Florida to tape a podcast over cigars and baked ziti just before before the Instagram post imbroglio.
On Friday, the day after Stone's new gag order took effect, Perez tweeted, "As much as the liberal media want to spin #RogerStoneArrested into evidence of #RussianCollusion , it only shows our innocence and their evil deeds, what a bunch of sore losers." Engels tweeted a hashtag that Stone and his supporters have been using since his arrest: "#RogerStoneDidNothingWrong."
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/roger-stone-proud-boys-volunteers-mueller-instagram
I hate how these assholes go out of their way to defend their cult leaders and think they are patriots for doing so, but when someone dares to defend a women they are called a white knight or they think that person defending the woman does it to get laid
How to fight the Alt-Right
https://splinternews.com/how-to-fight-the-alt-right-1830608402?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=splinter_copy&utm_campaign=tophttp://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/disrupting-white-nationalists.html
This Thanksgiving, don’t waste your time with those guides about how to show your racist uncle a better way. Watch our interview with an expert on the far right about what really needs to be done to get fascist scum out of our lives. Have a great holiday!
We need to keep up the fight till these assholes don't have anymore power
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