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'Both Sad and Hilarious': When Racists Use Emoticons

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David Wagner 1,767 Views Aug 7, 2012

This morning, I wrote about how members of online hate forum Stormfront have responded to news that links their ideology with the Sikh temple shooter. Commenter Andrew Gaboury was struck by the medium as well as the message:

There's something both sad and hilarious that white supremacists use "frownie face" emoticons on rambling hate filled forums.

Yeah. Sad, hilarious, and nausea-inducing. 

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