conspiracies

How a Sesame Street Illustrator Became the Truther Scene's Golden Boy

Ashley Feinberg · 07/15/15 10:43AM

Screaming children run from oversized vaccine death needles. Barack Obama shows off a handwritten birth certificate bearing the words “KENYA” and “FIRE ME.” Swastika-inscribed fluoride tanks empty themselves into lakes beneath a sky full of chemtrails. It’s every overblown conspiracy theorist’s nightmare, and there’s not a drop of irony in sight.

Internet Racists Are Obsessed With Nickelodeon's Show About "Cuckoldry"

Ashley Feinberg · 07/08/15 01:15PM

You’ve probably never heard of Bella and the Bulldogs, a relatively new show on Nickelodeon about a perky cheerleader-turned-quarterback. It’s fairly popular among tweens and has just been renewed for a second season. It’s also popular among infuriated, far right-wing racists, who have become positively obsessed with the show’s supposedly anti-white “race cuckoldry.”