RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/January 2017

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January 2017

60

Reddit bans the subreddit r/altright, due to "repeated violations of the terms of our content policy," including doxxing.

26

David Ernst: Donald Trump Is The First President To Turn Postmodernism Against Itself.

58

Kiwi Farms, a forum notorious for doxxing and harassing people, has just shut down because the owner was doxxed and harassed.

83

Alt-right media outlet The Right Stuff collapses after fellow racists discover the founder’s wife is Jewish.

70

Dinesh D'Souza tweeting on Martin Luther King weekend: John Lewis is "a nasty, bitter old man", Rosa Parks was no big deal, Democrats are a "party of bigotry", and the South is now "largely non-racist" thanks to Republicans.

41

The official Twitter account of the UK's Russian Embassy, which previously responded to US diplomatic sanctions with a lame duckling image, responds to media criticism of US-Russia relations by tweeting a Pepe meme, sparking outrage. What a time to be alive.

66

Far-right Twitter troll Joshua Bonehill-Paine is jailed for two years in the UK for harassment of a Jewish politician he called "a rodent [...] a money grabber, a dominatrix and responsible for the death of Jesus". He insists the jury were MI6 agents, and that a real jury would see nothing wrong with a two year harassment campaign called "Operation Filthy Jew Bitch".

42

American Family Association: "All through Scripture, God has used some very unrighteous, unlikely men to lead people back to Him. I don’t know if Donald Trump is as unlikely as some might think, but I do know that only by the hand of God did Trump win the presidency."

34

Ann Coulter tweets an unexplained "14!", widely interpreted as a dog whistle for the Fourteen Words, a white nationalist slogan.

32

Infowars: Why Does Popular Culture Glorify Being a Pussy?

24

Alex Jones: How patriots can make 2017 the year of Trump and the real media

29

Burger chain Wendy's tweets a rare Pepe meme before deleting it, pleading ignorance. Nazi site The Daily Stormer responds by endorsing Wendy's as the official fast food chain of the Alt-Right.screenshot