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Residents in Rocky River are sharing thoughts via social media today on a smattering of signs posted around town reading: “It’s OK to be white.” The signs appeared throughout the north side of town (“Tangletown”) yesterday evening, as trick-or-treating loomed on All Hallows’ Eve. 

As these things go, a number of very similar signs appeared in and around Cambridge, Mass., this morning too. Big surprise!

We dug around the stupid internet and found that this all leads back to a 4chan thread. (4chan is an anonymous forum from which you can draw your own conclusions vis a vis content and tone.) If you don’t want to click that link and run into various NSFW comments and rhetoric, here’s the “plan” that was propagated:

GAME PLAN (IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT ALREADY):

1. anons organize on here, infinity chan and elsewhere, print out uniform posters:
https://encouragementforall.wixsite.com/itsokaytobewhite

2. put on silly halloween costume for anonymity, nobody will think twice because it’s halloween

3. posters go up on campuses (and elsewhere) across the world on halloween night

4. the next morning, the media goes completely berserk

5. normies tune in to see what’s going on, see the posters saying “it’s okay to be white” and the media & leftists frothing at the mouth

6. normies realize that leftists & journalists hate white people, so they turn on them

7. credibility of far left campuses and media gets nuked, massive victory for the right in the culture war, many more /ourguys/ spawned overnight

PROOF OF CONCEPT:
A harmless message like this has already caused a massive media shitstorm before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfu8UkvpKYc [Embed] [Open] [Embed]


Sure enough, that link in Step No. 1 leads to an image that matches the posters appearing in Rocky River.

Yawn.

I guess we’re a part of the scary media reaction now, but we figure it’s best to just expose tripe for what it is every now and then.

This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2017.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

36 replies on “4chan Troll Movement Hits Rocky River with ‘It’s OK To Be White’ Signs”

  1. HOW DARE THOSE HWITE NAZI SUPREMASISTS SAY ITS OK TO BE WHITE! OF COURSE IT ISNT!!!!! MUH SIX GORILLION?!?!

  2. Thank you for exposing this scheme. It’s important people know that it’s not acceptable to be white.

  3. It is okay to be gay, it is okay to be black, it is okay to be Muslim, it is okay to be Asian, but there’s a problem when you’re white?

  4. My fellow white people, we need to stand together in condemnation of this repugnant display of hate speech that has no place in 2017.

  7. This 4chan prank is pure tripe. Period.

    Having established this fact, please check out some decidedly non-tripe news on Cleveland Scene such as “Video: LeBron Does ‘Carpool Karaoke’ With James Corden and Ice Cube “

  8. “Yawn” ? Wow, you sure put us in our place.

    We arnt worried about you. You don’t matter, and I’m not even sure worth correcting.

  9. Haha I actually like this. I’m going to fuck 4chans idea up. I’m printing it’s okay to be white it’s okay to be yellow it’s okay to be Brown okay to be black and will post them all over town. Peace and love famalam

  11. “Fuck White People” is a regularly accepted sign and poster from BLM and Antifa. It was even ruled that it is not hate speech. But “It’s ok to be white” Now that means you’re a Nazi? I really don’t like how this country is changing. I deserve to exist in peace just as much as anyone else. It’s the most mundane message possible and it’s still pissing off leftists. They must really hate us.

  16. It hasn’t been okay to be White since Donald Trump was elected. We are being grouped together by race and sex, even if ya didn’t vote for the guy. I wonder which other organized groups did this throughout history… Hmmmm…

  18. The comments(and the article itself) discarding this as a “simple troll” are worrying.

    This is no “simple troll”, this is an active an national white supremacist coordinated attack on PoC, LGBTQ and anyone who isn’t a strait, white male. The message might seem “banal” to some(the ones blinded by their white privilege”) but saying “It’s okay to be white” is akin to saying “White Lives Matter”, and we all know what that REALLY means and what kind of people use those disgusting, hateful expression. These are expression asserting white supremacy over others.

    I’m glad to see that the university responded while also reaffirming their embrace of diversity, but I feel like the response is way too weak. They don’t address the implicit white supremacist message in the posters and what they plan to do in order to assure PoC students feel safe, future diversity programs, etc.

    Hope they find the perpetrators of this and that they are accordingly punished. For all the neo-nazis, 4chan users and white supremacists in this comment section know that every decent human loathes your guts and that you are in the wrong side of history.

  20. Treyvonisha, as an individual who identifies as a narrow body of water between two land masses, I feel that you have mischaracterized my people in a very offensive manner. Check your terrene privilege. You don’t know what it’s like to be marinekin.

  21. “They made the white working man feel like you’re problems aren’t real because you’re ‘mansplaining’ and check your privilege,” Maher said. “You know, if your life sucks, your problems are real. What should I do? Cut my dick off and check my privilege?”

  22. Moronic liberals fall right into the trap even though the people who posted them said they would in advance. How much dumber can you be? Of course since the progressive nuts have a problem with it, it means they do not think it’s okay to be white.

    Democrats are going to have to part ways with these crazies to have a chance in future elections. Media still pushing forward, wanting you to believe that racists voted for Trump, when the same people that voted for Obama voted for Trump, which is why Trump flipped so many states. Many classic liberals that are intelligent enough to ignore the media voted for Trump. The Democrats have lost many classic liberals.

    As Sam Harris says, “The left is irredeemable.”

  23. It’s absolutely disgusting that in 2017 that something like this would happen. White people have no business engaging in self affirmation; who do they think they are, Jews?

  24. It’s always been okay to be white.

    Now let’s all work on making okay to be everything else…

  25. “Anons” calling everyone else a “normie”???
    Kiss my ass, you, elitist little pissants.
    Go shit in your backward baseball hats.

    Chuckles the Clown

  26. Yeah fuck white peoples am I right? How dare they think it’s acceptable for them to be something they can’t physically help. Smh racist fucks, thinking they are acceptable in any way.

  27. I don’t recall any reasonable person saying in sincerity and not in jest that it was not okay to be white. Is that what folks like these hear when a person of color says “don’t kill me and if you do, you should be held accountable”? Do they hear it’s not okay to be a male when women say “don’t rape me”? Do they hear it’s not okay to be straight when LBGTQ people say “don’t discriminate against me”?

  28. Why is the tone of this article so damn condescending? Can’t you can present the facts without adding your own shade of pettiness?

  29. Apparently part of the plan was to also troll the comments section of any article posted about the signs

  30. Don’t get or support this white affirmation shit….I’ve been as pink as a dog’s wiener all my life.

  32. I honestly can imagine the fat dopey white fucking losers who waddle up to a pole and stapled this retarded shit and it’s hilarious thinking about the high five.

  33. Reality: White fucking loser who had his mom drive him to the park and said he was going peepee but stapled this to a pole instead…maybe peepee too..then Totally posted to 4chan after for gratification…high five.

  35. There can only be one acceptable answer to this. “Yes it’s okay to be white. Anyone disagreeing is a racist and a terrible person.” And you FAILED! You also failed to report on the countless regressive idiots who went absolutely berserk over this. You didn’t mention the many ongoing police investigations this has sparked. You have chosen to call “It’s Okay To Be White” a racist statement, when it in no way demeans any other group of people. You clearly do not Internet well. And you do seem to believe that it’s not okay to be white.

  36. Hey bonkerstheclown, you also trevonishia? You’re pathetic. You proved you’re just a racist asshole and your “movement” is the same failed dumbass bullshit the kkk has done by tossing papers in innocent people’s yards for years. You are truly useless to humanity.

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