Activists Post Nazi Propaganda On Daily Mail Website For Social Experiment And Results Are Shocking
Media coverage of migrants trying to flee poverty-stricken and war-torn parts of the world has become more and more right-wing of late.
To many, it has gotten to the point where sentiments towards these people, and it’s important to remember these are PEOPLE we’re talking about, have mirrored what the Nazis once thought of the Jews.
To that end, the anonymous people behind the @bestofthemail and @DMReporter Twitter accounts decided to conduct a little experiment. That was, whenever the Daily Mail did an article about migrants, they’d comment on it using some Nazi propaganda. But rather than use the word ‘Jew’, they replaced it with ‘migrant’.
Incredibly, they’ve totted up 480 upvotes compared to 16 down votes for their far-right Nazi comments. And in an email to i100.co.uk, @BestoftheMail, said:
In recent weeks we were both fairly shocked by the tone of much of the migrant debate, especially the dehumanising and hateful nature of the language used to describe them. We wanted to illustrate how easy it is for hate speech to become normalised and show the importance of focusing on the people and the facts rather than resorting to prejudice.
Read the comments they posted on theladbible.com.