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"How I Infiltrated a White Pride Facebook Group and Turned It into 'LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama'"
http://www.vice.com/read/virgil-texas-white-power-facebook-group-troll?utm_source=vicefbus
It's easy to get into Confederate Facebook. Just go to a news article about a police shooting and scroll down to the comments. Most comment sections are linked to people's Facebook accounts, so you just have to find someone with a Confederate flag avatar expressing a racist opinion, click through to his or her profile, and select "Add Friend."
Everyone in Confederate Facebook seems to accept friend requests from strangers, which I guess can be chalked up to Southern hospitality. Facebook's friend recommendations will quickly turn into an endless, mesmerizing stream of folks with names like Prepper Jeff and Amanda Rebel. Just keep clicking "Add Friend" over and over, and before you know it your Timeline is full of racist Minions memes and pictures of Looney Toons who are somehow mad at Al Sharpton.
Predictably, many Confederate Facebook posts consist of proud displays of the Confederate flagon tattoos, in wedding photos, flanked by flaming blue skulls, airbrushed onto truck windows, whatever. But then you can find people freaking out at the possibility that Obama might arrest them for posting racist stuff on Facebook, or getting mad that people are calling them racist.
I was beginning to feel stupefied and distressed, and my friends were complaining that all their recommended friends now had Confederate flag avatars as well. While some of the Confederate Facebookers were plum happy to have me on boardcheck out this weirdly adorable picture of a bowing horse someone sent me!others, like the guy who told me to "run off and join ISIS," were not.
Just when I was about to unfriend them all and start drinking, I was invited to a private group of about 2,500 called "confederate pride, heritage not hate."
Much more at link. You will laugh your ass off!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)it is to disrupt and dismantle any fb group or political forum.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)Here's a few from the article.
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kath
(10,565 posts)Bomb.
Plus, I'm pretty technologically incompetent and not good at posting pics.
Thanks much!
kath
(10,565 posts)to hear it, Dane. It takes a while to come to terms with your sexuality..." Just about had me peeing my pants!
So much hilarity ensued! The banner pic with Michelle and those two flags is just priceless.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)It literally made me laugh at my tablet!
Thank you for sharing it here!
kath
(10,565 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)I laughed so hard, I was crying. My god, that was funny!
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Wow....I even had tears streaming down my face.
Bookmarked!
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)"As an admin I forbid you to leave."
MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)So quickly, with the confederate flag, and from their own statements & actions- it was shown that flag is a symbol of racism not 'Proud' 'southern pride.