The LGTB + community claims the hashtag #ProudBoys on Twitter against supremacist messages
GAYLES.TV.- Last Sunday, the hashtag #ProudBoys began to be a trend in North America. After the controversial presidential debate in which Donald Trump He refused to condemn the supremacist group and instead told them that “they would step back and wait”, The hashtag began to become popular. Users of Twitter they flooded the social network using the hashtag #ProudBoys with images of pride LGBT +, displacing posts made by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Proud Boys is a group founded in 2016 that only accepts men and that spreads a supremacist, anti-Muslim and misogynist message. He FBI classifies them as a "extremist group with ties to white nationalism”. Although not all of its members are white, many of them have expressed racist and anti-Semitic ideas. His presence in networks had been limited since Facebook, Twitter, Instagram y YouTube banned the official accounts of the association in the last two years, forcing the group to move through networks and platforms such as Speak o Telegram.
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The Proud Boys received media attention again last week, after the debate between Donald Trump y Joe Biden, and the refusal of Trump to condemn them. Tweeters LGTBI + they were not willing to pass up this opportunity to remind Trump what is the true meaning of pride. The colective LGTB + chose to flood the network with the hashtag #ProudBoys as if from the week of Pride It will be.
The initiative already gathers half a million multicolored tweets in which boys LGTB + show their love. Among the most retweeted is that of the official account of Twitter of the Canadian Armed Forces across United States, who shared an image of a military man kissing his partner with emojis of the Canadian flag and the rainbow pride flag.
Source: Verne, El Periodico
Photographer: Reuters,Twitter
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