{"id":11032,"date":"2013-10-11T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:02:23","slug":"redoctober-hashtag-trends-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11032","title":{"rendered":"#RedOctober hashtag trends on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/redoctober.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11033\" alt=\"redoctober\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/redoctober.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>A backlash from white liberals erupted on Twitter as marches were held in a number of cities on Thursday by a grouping that gathered in protest against the oppression and slaughter of whites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Cape Town, Red October protesters marched from Keizersgracht to Parliament, where they released red balloons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Red October, which is supported by musician Steve Hofmeyr, was slammed as \u201cracist\u201d on social media, with messages of disbelief and anger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The #RedOctober hashtag trended on Twitter across South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By late afternoon, an online petition had been started \u201cTo all South Africans: Let\u2019s shut down Red October!\u201d, in an effort to have its Facebook page removed. It went nowhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Red October website, the marches had been organised to let everyone know \u201cthat we have had enough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whites protesting against their oppression marched to the Union Buildings under the theme Red October. After delivering a memorandum of their concerns, they released red balloons in remembrance of murdered white farmers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aticle_pic\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNo longer will we be silent about the oppression of the White South African Ethnic Minority! No longer will we silently endure the killing of our people on our farms and in our towns and cities,\u201d read its petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their grievances included \u201cdestruction of our infrastructure; our filthy government hospitals; our pathetic educational system; dangerous neighbourhoods; and a disintegrating road network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an ethnic minority, said Red October, white people were entitled to protection of their rights as enshrined in the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A backlash from white liberals erupted on Twitter as marches were held in a number of cities on Thursday by a grouping that gathered in protest against the oppression and slaughter of whites. In Cape Town, Red October protesters marched from Keizersgracht to Parliament, where they released red balloons. Red October, which is supported by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#RedOctober hashtag trends on Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6902,6903,21,429,202],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-redoctober-hashtag","tag-oppression-and-slaughter-of-whites","tag-steve-hofmeyr","tag-twitter","tag-white-genocide"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/redoctober.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11036,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}