Trolls Hijack White-Power Sites to Discuss Color Swatches

[babylonsister]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trolls-hijack-white-power-sites-to-discuss-color-swatches


Trolls Hijack White-Power Sites to Discuss Color Swatches
A team of Reddit power users is taking over subreddits across the site—and transforming communities like WhitePolitics with posts about shades of gray and laundry.
Ben Collins
08.04.17 1:43 AM ET


You probably wouldn’t 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 there’s 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!”

“It’s hilarious. What’s 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.

[TxDemChem]

1. This has me tickled

[QED]

2. I painted my living room Swiss Coffee.

Just sayin'.

[volstork]

3. This is awesome, and,

as a bonus, also hilarious. Such good, clever people!

[tanyev]

4. LOL!

[mulsh]

5. As an old white dude I can only say more of this sort of thing please.

n/t

[DBoon]

6. Moar goats!

Like they did for the Website of th Bundy occupation