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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023

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I want to pre-register a bet and get some opinions on this one. This death threat is absolutely fake, right? The grammar is ridiculous, and the word and phrasing choice is an absolute parody. Everything about it smells like an educated non-english person larping with zero understanding of what the natives actually sound like.

It reminds me of my college professor who smashed her car windows and wrote "brave dykes will never smash the patriarchy" on it to blame frat boys (which worked on the college, but fortunately not the police & insurance agency).

I expect we'll never hear about it if it turns out she wrote it. But I doubt even the met would grab some random local boy and use him as a scapegoat like my college tried In that incident.

It's difficult to know. It could be genuine, it could be something she invented herself, it could be something a third party sent (either as false flag or they're just a troll) and is trying to pin on National Action - I had to look them up and they're a real group, but that doesn't mean this alleged "London Cell" is real or that this is really from them. We'll have to wait and see the result of the police investigation.

The 'Yoruba' gives it away as being a fake.

No european racist would care about that guy being a particular African tribe. Especially not someone writes at that level.

Meanwhile, in Africa, what tribe you are still matters a lot.

It would be bitterly funny if she didn't fake this letter, but some fellow African academic or other rival did in order to threaten her but push off the blame onto the white supremacists. I could see them caring about "that big-headed Yoruba bitch", as you say.

We might learn something eventually, because apparently all color laser printers leave their serial numbers in small yellow dots on each page, and a competent police investigation would thus find the serial number.

Do cops have a database of every serial number? How?

Possible they ask distributors to tell them, on account of color laser printers being used for counterfeiting.

If not, you can go around the workplace of the person who printed it out and check. This is the kind of thing you wouldn't really want to print somewhere where other people could see it, e.g. a print shop.

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