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| Knock Out (Photo: Daniel Novta) |
The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth: Excerpts
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Showing posts with label internet trolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet trolls. Show all posts
The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth
The "Knockout Game" is a Dream Come True for Racist White Conservatives
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| Adapted from "Day 29: Knockout!" (Photo: Mike Nelson) |
By Chauncey DeVega
I share no sense of linked fate with Marvell Weaver, the hoodlum who was arrested for playing the "knockout game" and then decided to do an interview with the local news about his exploits.
After watching Weaver's pathetic explanation for the logic of his crime, I am left wondering what happened to shame?
Right-wing trolls are doing their best to play up the foolishness called the "knockout game". It is a new moral panic that combines white anxieties about black criminality, fear of black young people, and stereotypes about "African-American violence" which have been cultivated by white supremacists since Reconstruction.
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The emails, comments, and stories on Right-wing websites about the faux moral panic "knockout game" phenomena are not rooted in a fair concern about crime and youth brigandry. Rather, the "knockout game" meme is rooted in a pathologically white racist obsession with "black crime"--what is alone and unique in its distinction, as white privilege has disallowed any discussion of "white crime" in America's public discourse.
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Is BP 'trolling' its Facebook Critics?: Critics Using BP America's Facebook Page Allege They Have Been Harassed
Has BP hired internet "trolls" to threaten critics of its handling of the 2010 oil disaster?
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| Trolls at The Hobbit World Premiere in Wellington, NZ. (Photo: Tristan Schmurr) |
Dahr Jamail | 20 Nov 2013 18:20
BP has been accused of hiring internet "trolls" to purposefully attack, harass, and sometimes threaten people who have been critical of how the oil giant has handled its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil firm hired the international PR company Ogilvy & Mather to run the BP America Facebook page during the oil disaster, which released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf in what is to date the single largest environmental disaster in US history.
The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened.
"Marie" was deeply concerned by the oil spill, and began posting comments on the BP America Facebook page. Today, she asks that she remain anonymous out of what she described to Al Jazeera as "fear for my personal safety should the BP trolls find out that I am the whistleblower in this case".
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The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened.
"Marie" was deeply concerned by the oil spill, and began posting comments on the BP America Facebook page. Today, she asks that she remain anonymous out of what she described to Al Jazeera as "fear for my personal safety should the BP trolls find out that I am the whistleblower in this case".
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