Hillary Supporters Can Now Go Public on Facebook

[OKNancy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/fashion/closet-hillary-clinton-supporters-facebook-secret-groups.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0


FYI: if you can read the New York Times because you have been there over their allotment for free looks... use the incognito option if you have one. I use Chrome.



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They have names like “Wise Women for Clinton,” “Cool People for Hillary,” “Bros 4 Hillary — #GiveEmHill” and one that rhymes with witch.

Some are small, with just a couple of hundred members, while others number into the thousands. All of them began as a “secret” — or, as secret as one can be with an invite-only Facebook group.

The groups are “safe spaces,” members say: a way to discuss policy and celebrate good news without having to defend; a place to bring up doubts about their candidate — What’s the deal with the emails? What about her changing stance on gay marriage? — and work through them together with a nuance not typically afforded on the internet.

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And those were just the people you knew in real life. Online, the vitriol was worse. Moderating comments on a single Facebook post was like “a master class in nonviolent communication,” said Lori White, 33, a writer at Upworthy and a founder of “Cool People for Hillary.”

Strangers commented on your feed. Trolls spammed your wall with threats, called you “a warmonger, a corporate whore,” and many terms reserved for female supporters that were far worse, said Laura Bogart, a writer in Baltimore.

Older supporters were not immune either. Robert Stanton, a 53-year-old actor, had a friendship severed after he “liked” a photo of Mrs. Clinton and Courtney Love on Facebook. His former friend told him “he couldn’t be friends with someone for whom he had no respect, which was quite a blow,” Mr. Stanton said.

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[msongs]

1. the we was cheated crowd and California vote count will save bernie are still in full force tho nt

[BobbyDrake]

2. Without Facebook I'm zen, since 2010.

No apologies for the tortured rhyme.

[eastwestdem]

3. I never talk politics on Facebook. That's what DU is for. nt

[Walk away]

4. ^^^^Amen^^^^^

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Yup! I do not comment on politics or religon on FB

FB is for family and friends, photos, etc.

[ismnotwasm]

6. I leave my personal page fairly politics free

But I joined a ton of pro-Hillary groups--it feels really good and is a lot of fun

[Cha]

7. Thank you for this, OKNancy!

I plan to go back to FB after the Convention.. and yes I do politics on my personal page but I haven't done anything for a year now.

[fleabiscuit]

8. This old timer got into FB and gaming and groups there in 08.

Back then a 'large group' would have a couple K of peeps. We started and closed a few of them. I've collected and booted easily 10k of 'friends' there. FB used to have a 5K limit on the amount of friends. Down to less than 500 now I think, lots fewer that are regular chatters. I set my privacy tight there and don't accept new friends easily and not at all if I can't see their account.

FB history is relatively short, but this election season has been very harsh with rhetoric.

BTW, if you go troll a candidate and post what a dick they are, such as Ted Cruz, FB will sometimes put you in FB jail where you cannot post for awhile.

Just saying.