Racist cyberbulling of Meghan Markle

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Britain's royal family is beefing up its social media operation amid a rise in racist online abuse targeting the Duchess of Sussex in the months after the announcement of her pregnancy, sources have told CNN.

Kensington Palace staff are devoting more resources to deleting comments targeting Meghan, and blocking abusive Twitter and Instagram accounts. Software is being used to filter out the use of the n-word as well as emojis of guns and knives.
As part of the effort, the royal family issued a set of guidelines last week for people engaging with its social media channels.
Separately, the advocacy group Hope Not Hate analyzed a sample of more than 5,000 tweets containing the most commonly used anti-Meghan hashtags. The analysis of the tweets, posted between January and the middle of February, shows that a tight-knit group of accounts is behind much of the trolling.

Twenty accounts were responsible for about 70% of the tweets, sharing anti-Meghan hashtags, pictures and memes. The fact that such a small number of users generated such a large number of the tweets suggests that the accounts were created for the purpose of producing negative content about the duchess, Hope Not Hate said.

The Twitter bios associated with the users typically contained Meghan-related hashtags like #Megxit and #Charlatanduchess, as well as political hashtags like #Brexit and #MAGA (Make America Great Again), sometimes in combination.

Some of the accounts also shared links to far-right websites and social media pundits. Many posts used racial epithets to describe Meghan. However, there is no evidence that the accounts analyzed by Hope Not Hate are part of a far-right campaign against the Dutchess

Since Meghan and Prince Harry's relationship was first revealed by the media in 2016, there have been references in articles to Meghan's "rich and exotic DNA," reports that her "family went from cotton slaves to royalty" and claims that the Los Angeles native was "(almost) straight outta Compton," in a reference to the NWA song.

Much of the trolling exploits the claims of a rift between Meghan and her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge. Where Kate is lauded by the media for exposing her shoulder in a dress, Meghan is accused by the tabloids of breaking royal protocol for doing similar.

When Meghan wears dark nail polish, the "vulgar fashion move" is criticized for breaking royal protocol "again." Meanwhile, Kate is said to opt for "subtle" shades more in keeping with the Queen's preferences.
There is no protocol on nail varnish in the British monarchy.

Type "Meghan" and "Kate" in to Google News and you get reams of eye-popping stories comparing the sisters-in-law based on what the palace says is a manufactured feud.

The alleged rift has also been cited as the reasons Meghan and Harry are moving out of Kensington Palace and plan to establish their own office. But CNN's source said this is more to do with Harry wanting greater independence, and William needing his own team in preparation for so-called "reign change," when Charles will become King and William will step up as the Prince of Wales.

The royal press pack has pushed back against accusations that they are biased against Meghan. They say they are just doing their job, covering the news without prejudice, and they claim they do far more positive stories about Meghan than negative ones. But online trolls have exploited the "othering" of Meghan on online news sites and gossip pages and reports of a feud between her and Kate.

Meghan and Harry's forthcoming child will be the first known mixed-race baby in the royal family's thousand-year history. Adegoke, the author, said speculation is rife about his or her likely appearance.

"There's been a lot of talk on Twitter, not just from racists but also people who are very pro-Meghan, about recessive genes, about whether the baby will have an afro, whether the baby will have its mother's nose," she said.
"There's all these coded conversations happening about what the baby will look like, and it sounds really horrible to think, but a lot of people offered up the idea that the blacker the baby looks, the worse its treatment will be."

Hope Not Hate researcher Patrik Hermansson said he was surprised to see discussions about Meghan, which he described as "pure conspiracy theories," suggesting she isn't really pregnant but is wearing a fake baby bump.

Hermansson said the anti-Meghan trolls have also seized on themes like so-called "cultural decline."

That narrative has already been used to troubling effect; in December last year, a UK offshoot of a violent US neo-Nazi group posted an image calling for Prince Harry to be shot, according to a BBC investigation. And they accused him of being a "race traitor" for marrying a mixed-race woman.

Kate ( a lily White commoner) was a step in the right direction. But Meghan ( a commoner who is a little bit off-White) is even more urgently needed to deepen the Royal gene pool.

Folks have to realize that if the Royals were to continue with their inbreeding ways it might end up like this:

I think trolls look for a hot button topic to "get a rise" and vilifying people racially is a sure bet...

Young males these days are socially conflicted over their perceived social roles and their identity in society. Rather than tackle their personal issues they think it's easier to carry a tikki torch and attack minority groups like women, gays or non-white people whom they attribute their personal circumstance to...

That and the much more abundant people in the US who think it's not racist to attack white people and make ridiculous claims like white people are the only ones who can be racist(A huge portion of the left).

To quote George Lucas's famous film franchise...."The Empire Strikes Back"

Kate ( a lily White commoner) was a step in the right direction. But Meghan ( a commoner who is a little bit off-White) is even more urgently needed to deepen the Royal gene pool.

Folks have to realize that if the Royals were to continue with their inbreeding ways it might end up like this:

I agree it's always been there and went covert around the early 1990s before making a grand re-appearance with Trump inc.

So you completely deny racism against whit people? Perhaps what's causing racism to resurface on the white part of the population is tons of people attacking white people in a racist manner, the evil straight white male is born racist even if he isn't racist.

Its really funny people keep trying to make the argument that Trump is the cause of racism trying to come back, in reality it's all the racist people on the left that is bringing racism back.

Racism is predicated by "white privilege" which even those on the left are beneficiaries. When non-white folks attack white people (as you claim) it might be driven by resentment, hatred or a "robin hood" mentality they are stealing from the rich (this is probably the mentality in poor blacks who think all whites are rich). But it ain't racism...that's a scientific fact


He certainly hasn't hidden the strategy of using the racist vote to win elections. It's pretty obvious when he originally chose Steve Bannon as his chief strategist what type of message he wanted to send to the middle class white voter who was blaming the Obama administration (rather than the economy) for either losing their jobs or feeling threatened by the changing demographics threatening their perception of the American way of life (you gotta admit the republicans were already doing some excellent scape goating before Trump through Rush Limbaugh and the tea party movement)