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1. This is Eva Van Housen and Mark Collett.
Well actually, she's called Jenna Smith.
But for some patriotic reason she prefers to sound like a villain in Indiana Jones.
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Well actually, she's called Jenna Smith.
But for some patriotic reason she prefers to sound like a villain in Indiana Jones.
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2. They started a movement called "The Patriotic Alternative".
Recently they've engineered stunts like the unfurling of a large White Lives Matter banner in a National Trust park in the Peak District.
Recently they've engineered stunts like the unfurling of a large White Lives Matter banner in a National Trust park in the Peak District.
3. The Mam Tor walk, where they filmed their caterpillar banner display, is managed by the @nationaltrust.
4. Carey Davies, the Editor of @TGOMagazine tweeted the National Trust, suggesting they condemn it, so that all people might feel welcome.
5. The dude/ettes who manage the National Trust Twitter agreed.
6. The many replies they got were not too happy.
7. "Some of my best grandchildren are black, actually?"
8. "Stop the division"
9. It went on.
10. And on. You get the idea.
11. The goal of movements like the Groypers, white supremacists, fascists, and many other groups, seems to be to "Mainstream" their views, poisoning and flooding discourse, drawing people in.
Government trolls farms do it, think tanks do it, corporations and advertisers do it.
Government trolls farms do it, think tanks do it, corporations and advertisers do it.
12. Some passers by and followers of the National Trust now seem to think that these white nationalist views and this fury is a commonly held belief, maybe even, normal.
13. But were these comments genuine and spontaneous fury from National Trust members, passers by or "Normal" people?
Of course not.
This is Laura Towler's, of the Patriotic Alternative, Telegram channel.
Of course not.
This is Laura Towler's, of the Patriotic Alternative, Telegram channel.
14. The Patriotic Alternative are the "Patriotic" group who organised the White Lives Matter 40-man caterpillar stunt.
Here she is celebrating "getting" the National Trust to condemn their stunt.
She directs thousands of supporters to the National Trust Tweet.
"We did it!"
Here she is celebrating "getting" the National Trust to condemn their stunt.
She directs thousands of supporters to the National Trust Tweet.
"We did it!"
15. The stream of trolling and fury at the National Trust wasn't genuine.
Did the @nationaltrust know that thousands of hyper partisan trolls were directed to their tweet?
Will they self-censor, and avoid "hot" topics, like supporting BLM, next time?
Did the @nationaltrust know that thousands of hyper partisan trolls were directed to their tweet?
Will they self-censor, and avoid "hot" topics, like supporting BLM, next time?
16. Trolling works.
Groups like the Patriotic Alternative know this. Getting the National Trust to reply, then flooding the reply with trolling, is something they celebrate.
Laura Towler of the Patriotic Alternative, explained part of that plan on her Telegram channel.
Groups like the Patriotic Alternative know this. Getting the National Trust to reply, then flooding the reply with trolling, is something they celebrate.
Laura Towler of the Patriotic Alternative, explained part of that plan on her Telegram channel.
