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Damn,
I missed Talib go off on Don Lemon?
Anybody have quick notes?
I missed Talib go off on Don Lemon?
Anybody have quick notes?
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The 10 Kinds of trolls you encounter when talking about Mike Brown.
BY OLIVIA A. COLE
If you’re paying attention to the events unfolding in Ferguson—and by God, you better be—then you probably already know there is a group of people in this country of ours who are determined to change the focus of the conversation about the murder of Mike Brown and the subsequent protests, attempting to shift the lens away from the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and the shooting of a black teenager.
If you’re reading this, you probably already know the folks I’m talking about. But here they are.
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook[/URL]"]
1) The Full-Blown Racist Troll
Block on sight. Some of them are friends of your Facebook friends—block them. Some of them areyour Facebook friends. Many of them are accounts like this one: anonymous and relying on blatantly racistlanguage, such as blackface imagery, “monkey” references, use of the “N-word,” etc. These have exploded over the last week. We’re talking hundreds. I’ve been using Twitter avidly for years, and I can’t recall ever seeing quite this much racist bile taking over an event-related hashtag (#Ferguson) as I have this week.
Block them and report them for spam immediately.
A community pushing back against a murderous police force that is terrorizing them is not a ‘riot.’ It’s an uprising. It’s a rebellion. It’s a community saying We can’t take this anymore. We won’t take it. It’s people who have been dehumanized to the point of rightful rage. And it happens all over the world. Uprisings and rebellions are necessary and inevitable, locally and globally. This is not to say that actual riots don’t happen. White folks riot at sporting events, for example. Riots happen. But people rising up in righteous anger and rage in the face of oppression should not be dismissed as simply a ‘riot.’
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/why_is_always_a_white_guy_the_roots_of_modern_violent_rage/[/URL]"]9) The Misinformation Bots
These are particularly dangerous, and I have seen a lot of them in the past week. I won’t speculate on where they come from—although I have a fairly good idea—but their sole purpose is to spread misinformation about Mike Brown and Darren Wilson, targeting people tweeting under the #Ferguson and #MikeBrown hashtags and sending them to false articles on homemade websites about alternate eyewitnesses that saw Brown attack Wilson, etc.
Don’t engage with these people: they likely get paid for it. Report them as spam, and you guessed it: keep it moving.
If he was black he would've caught the whole magazine.
The 10 Kinds of trolls you encounter when talking about Mike Brown.
BY OLIVIA A. COLE
If you’re paying attention to the events unfolding in Ferguson—and by God, you better be—then you probably already know there is a group of people in this country of ours who are determined to change the focus of the conversation about the murder of Mike Brown and the subsequent protests, attempting to shift the lens away from the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and the shooting of a black teenager.
If you’re reading this, you probably already know the folks I’m talking about. But here they are.
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook[/URL]"]
1) The Full-Blown Racist Troll
Block on sight. Some of them are friends of your Facebook friends—block them. Some of them areyour Facebook friends. Many of them are accounts like this one: anonymous and relying on blatantly racistlanguage, such as blackface imagery, “monkey” references, use of the “N-word,” etc. These have exploded over the last week. We’re talking hundreds. I’ve been using Twitter avidly for years, and I can’t recall ever seeing quite this much racist bile taking over an event-related hashtag (#Ferguson) as I have this week.
Block them and report them for spam immediately.
A community pushing back against a murderous police force that is terrorizing them is not a ‘riot.’ It’s an uprising. It’s a rebellion. It’s a community saying We can’t take this anymore. We won’t take it. It’s people who have been dehumanized to the point of rightful rage. And it happens all over the world. Uprisings and rebellions are necessary and inevitable, locally and globally. This is not to say that actual riots don’t happen. White folks riot at sporting events, for example. Riots happen. But people rising up in righteous anger and rage in the face of oppression should not be dismissed as simply a ‘riot.’
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/why_is_always_a_white_guy_the_roots_of_modern_violent_rage/[/URL]"]9) The Misinformation Bots
These are particularly dangerous, and I have seen a lot of them in the past week. I won’t speculate on where they come from—although I have a fairly good idea—but their sole purpose is to spread misinformation about Mike Brown and Darren Wilson, targeting people tweeting under the #Ferguson and #MikeBrown hashtags and sending them to false articles on homemade websites about alternate eyewitnesses that saw Brown attack Wilson, etc.
Don’t engage with these people: they likely get paid for it. Report them as spam, and you guessed it: keep it moving.
So an ARMED Caucasian Male, walking TOWARDS cops with the weapon loaded and cocked, only gets a single bullet to the stomach....If he was black he would've caught the whole magazine.
Although I don't like Don Lemon, I respect that he allowed the whole interview to finish and not run to commercial like his producer's wanted him to. Kweli spitting that real though.
Lol @ MB witnesses accounts being slightly different so that makes the witness less credible. You literally can't name 2 vast differences in all the accounts given.
Can say what you want. His friend's account would be dismissed as not credible because he has a biased interest. You probably ignore the fact he hemmed up the dude in the store too.
The different witness statements that are pro-Brown aren't helping in terms of credibility. All have slightly different accounts of what happened.
Since all the witnesses that are "pro brown"' didn't link up to make one big story that has the same account like the pro darren wilson supporters did, they aren't credible? In a court of law every witness acount is most likely different. Hell the darren wilson story is so inaccurate, im glad there's different witness accounts on browns case. Rather than there being one story that everyone is going with which the media would be able to poke holes through.The different witness statements that are pro-Brown aren't helping in terms of credibility. All have slightly different accounts of what happened.
Can say what you want. His friend's account would be dismissed as not credible because he has a biased interest. You probably ignore the fact he hemmed up the dude in the store too.
she tried to elbow a mb supporter who was behind her that didn't even try to touch her, then the cop comes and takes the mb supporter to the side.So did this woman supporting Ofc. Wilson really think it was a good idea to walk right in the middle of the Brown protests?