newish slang term: MILKSHAKE DUCK**

So I thought I'd share it with my internet denizens on DU

I'm trying to find the details, but he seems to be the target now.

The best example was Ken Bone, that nerdy sweater guy during the Clinton/Trump debate who everyone fell in love with, then turned out to be a racist sex offender or something.

And there was the kid whose mom posted the video of him talking about how he was bullied at school and didn't want to go, and it turned out the family were racists.

Thanks for posting that.

in my head called ‘no idea why I know this.’

Link to tweet

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Cuck yet.

It's a reference to cuckold. It's an accusation that people are guilted into being liberals by their social groups and are afraid to stand up to them.

We've had political Milkshake Ducks, actually.

Think Michael Avenatti and Eric Schneidermann, for starters.

VERY TLDR, Aimee was promoted to Administrator on Reddit and was hailed as something of a triumph for her appointment as a transgender Admin, but it rapidly resulted in the exposure that her father imprisoned, tortured, and raped a ten year old, and her husband had made public statements supporting pedophilia. She later hired her father as her political campaign manager. Due to this problematic past, her name started to trend on Reddit, which then instituted a blanket ban wave on any/all posts/posters mentioning her name, though ostensibly Challenor claimed each case was transphobic.

As a result, hundreds of Reddit communities went "Private" in protest, essentially a Reddit blackout. It caused a huge tidal wave of backlash against Aimee as well, since the banwaves existed simply for mentioning someone's name. Tens of millions of users/communities participated in the blackout, and Reddit swiftly removed Challenor from their employ.


Further reading here.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator-blackout-protest-aimee-knight-uk-green-party