April 24, 2019

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

April 19, 2019

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

April 13, 2019

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.

April 11, 2019

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.html
Logan 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