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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrolls Hijack White-Power Sites to Discuss Color Swatches
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trolls-hijack-white-power-sites-to-discuss-color-swatchesTrolls Hijack White-Power Sites to Discuss Color Swatches
A team of Reddit power users is taking over subreddits across the siteand transforming communities like WhitePolitics with posts about shades of gray and laundry.
Ben Collins
08.04.17 1:43 AM ET
You probably wouldnt be surprised to see a post blaring WHITE POWER at the top of a web community named WhitePolitics.
And you might expect that white politics community to be hosted on Reddit, where public-relations people for the website respond to the existence of Nazi subreddits by calling them expressions of the open internet.
But theres one surprise: When you click on WHITE POWER, it shows a 136 kilowatt power generator. That power generator is white.
The post below it, titled Why whites must be separated from blacks, is about laundry.
On WhitePolitics, according to a stickied post on the site, racism is now banned, and it is now a place to hail the greatest of whites, Swiss Coffee!
Its hilarious. Whats not to like? Ianna Urquhart, a moderator at r/WhitePolitics and r/Whites, told The Daily Beast.
WhitePolitics switched over from a largely dormant, headless white-supremacist forum on Tuesday. The community is just the latest that Urquhart and a team of semi-organized Reddit power users have taken away from white-supremacist, transphobic, or straight up neo-Nazi groups in order to make terrible puns and wreak havoc.
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Trolls Hijack White-Power Sites to Discuss Color Swatches (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2017
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TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)1. This has me tickled
QED
(2,747 posts)2. I painted my living room Swiss Coffee.
Just sayin'.
volstork
(5,403 posts)3. This is awesome, and,
as a bonus, also hilarious. Such good, clever people!
tanyev
(42,589 posts)4. LOL!
mulsh
(2,959 posts)5. As an old white dude I can only say more of this sort of thing please.
n/t
DBoon
(22,383 posts)6. Moar goats!
Like they did for the Website of th Bundy occupation