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It’s Okay to Be White
Background Information
The distribution of flyers and stickers reading “It’s Okay to be White” is part of a national movement that originated on 4chan’s /pol board in 2017. This example, from Western Connecticut State University is one of several recent incidents involving the flyers of American college campuses.
Technique Used
Attack Opponents
This is propaganda because
The phrase, which has roots in white supremacy and is something of a racist dog whistle, was chosen because it’s simple and (divorced of context) innocuous. The aim of the campaign to provoke outrage – that those the /pol community consider opponents would find the phrase offensive despite its “harmlessness,” causing them to look foolish and lose credibility with the public. In the words of InfoWars columnist Paul Joseph Watson, the flyers are a “way to trigger leftists into revealing their own anti-white bigotry.”
Source
Western Connecticut State University, photo by Audrey Nielsen
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