Why can't we stop feeding the trolls? Latest frenzy over 'it's OK to be white' proves society desperately wants to be offended https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476520-white-supremacy-pranks-4chan-offense/ A plague of “it’s OK to be white” stickers has struck Perth, Scotland, “sickening” local authorities. The slogan’s origins in an internet prank are known, yet it’s still taken seriously – nor is it the sole case of self-trolling. The stickers’ arrival in Perth catapulted the town into a state of shock, to hear the BBC tell it on Tuesday. “It’s sickening and disgusting to know that people think like this,” an anonymous resident told the outlet, while local group Perth Against Racism claimed to have been contacted by multiple people who “felt unsafe” upon seeing the stickers. You are NOT OK. They want you dead and gone.BBC News - Perth city centre 'It's okay to be white' stickers condemned https://t.co/Zp7ljyppZz ... Hunters unmercifully troll PETA’s ‘Shoot Selfies, Not Animals’ campaign https://www.rt.com/viral/400970-hunters-troll-peta-campaign/ A PETA campaign urging people not to hunt has backfired in spectacular fashion after being hijacked by hunters. ... However, predictably enough, hunters seized upon the idea and started posting it on photos of themselves with dead animals. ... Europe's politically correct 'selective compassion' losing steam https://www.rt.com/op-ed/330787-europe-politically-correct-selective-compass... ... That which men capable of independent thought understood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-spe... intellectually decades ago, men less so well endowed, finally, understand viscerally. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390168/Migrant-rape-fears-spread-Eu... They have woken up and smelled the agenda: the ship has an iceberg embedded in the hull; and it was Political Correctness – or Cultural Marxism – which put it there. Read more 1 1 Invasion of Europe: The ship is going down And this shift has made the job of self-appointed social gatekeepers – from well-heeled, well-lunched, first-tier think tanks all the way down to third-rate, bottom-feeding trolls sniping anonymously from behind fictitious names and pretend honors for minimum wage – more difficult. Whereas previously, Europeans could be kept on-message with the project of their own demise with nothing sterner than a set of Thaler and Sunstein nudges and a palette of meaningless and generally incorrect epithets, the populations of Europe are beginning to get it: either we put grown-ups back in charge of the ship, or it is going down. ...
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Zenaan Harkness