The New Stealth Trolls—Faux-Conservatives

Written on April 29, 2011 by Ann-Marie Murrell
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Being one of the mega-page Facebook types, I think I can justifiably say I’m an expert at detecting Trolls. In case you’re not familiar with the term, it’s basically a word used for the instigator-types who sneak around Conservative websites trying to start fights. They know exactly which buttons to push; they know what to say to spark a debate and then they sit back in their Evil Troll basements laughing maniacally at the chaos they’ve induced. (At least that’s the way I picture them…)

The ‘old school’ Trolls were pretty straightforward and easy to spot. It’s sort of like they spoke their own brand of Trollaneze, dropping in key liberal phrases like “evil capitalismâ€