Vice President Kamala Harris is developing a new fan base: white dudes.

As her presidential campaign ramps up, a group of white men formed a coalition known as "White Dudes for Harris."

The group plans to kick off Monday night via a virtual call that will feature speakers including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), singer Josh Groban, actor Mark Hamill, and others.

"Together, we aren’t going to sit around and let the MAGA crowd bully other white guys into voting for a hateful and divisive ideology because we understand that under MAGA everyone loses," the RSVP page for Monday's call reads. "We know that as white dudes, we have both a strong, and positive role to play in America’s shared future, and it begins with all of us cutting through the MAGA crap and reminding the folks who have co-opted American symbols what America actually means."

White Dudes for Harris also launched a $35 hat with its slogan ahead of the meeting.

The group said that nearly 80,000 people have RSVP'd and it collectively raised more than $300,000 in support of Harris' campaign.

What do Democrats think about White Dudes for Harris?

Democratic influencers and those planning to attend the call praised the initial organizing.

"Tonight's call represents a promising attempt to create a movement and a permission structure to lift many white dudes out of the MAGA whirlpool they've gotten sucked into," wrote one person on X. "It will allow for tough but necessary conversations that can create healing, movement, and unity around Kamala Harris and Democratic candidates like her."

He continued: "The guys organizing tonight’s call were inspired by the Black women and men, as well as all the other folks, who've organized calls over the last week. White men haven't organized ourselves well around Democratic values, which has been detrimental to the country and our ability to win elections."

Joked the pro-Democrat account VoteDarkBrandon: "Folks—white boy summer is here," riffing on the right-wing attempts to claim the phrase.

At the same time, critics of Harris were quick to put the group on blast.

Some accounts posted images of transgender women while making fun of the initiative, while others took digs at the manliness of the attendees.

"White dudes for Harris?? The Democrats return to their segregationist roots," slammed one person.

"If you belong to 'White Dudes for Harris', you've turned in your man card and didn't even realize it," snarked someone else.

"These dudes would be melting down if there was a 'White Dudes for Trump,'" mused another person.

Asked one user: "How beta-male can you be?"

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As Donald Trump accepted his party's presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, four large screens in the Quicken Loans Arena were broadcasting a series of tweets. 

However, one post in particular is garnering the attention of many. 

https://twitter.com/Western_Triumph/status/756316297860943872

User @Western_Triumph’s tweet seems harmless at first glance—simply quoting a line from Trump’s speech—but a closer look at the account tells a much different story. 

The user's bio features a series of slogans associated with white supremacy, including #ProWhite, #RaceRealist and #LoveYourRace. In other tweets, the account advocates for race segregation, a "great purge" of non-white "traitors," and the deportation of Muslims to the Middle East, among other racist messages.

https://twitter.com/Western_Triumph/status/756461413518966784

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https://twitter.com/Western_Triumph/status/755055555446763521

According to Talking Points Memo, this was not the first tweet by an alleged white supremacist group that was broadcast during the Republican National Convention. On Tuesday, an anti-immigrant hate group, Virginia Dare, was highlighted on the convention's screens. 

During his run for president, Trump has repeatedly been accused of encouraging racism. Although the photo is now deleted, Trump retweeted a photo last November that suggested African-Americans were responsible for killing 81 percent of white homicide victims. And last February, he declined to distance himself from the endorsement of David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. 

The Republican National Convention has yet to comment. 

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Usually, when you see a photo of white bros, your mind is able to digest all the whiteness taking place in front of you. For example, take a look at this photo of white bros doing what they do best: being white bros.

https://twitter.com/djtrackstar/status/754423604222263296

This is your standard photo of white bros hanging out doing something white and bro-y. Some of them are posing in the same manner, but it’s pretty easy to see that this is nothing more than a bro hangout.

https://twitter.com/tylerherron14/status/746845266427392001

Now this one is tricky. Not only are these bros shirtless, but the majority of them are wearing sunglasses. At first, your brain cannot differentiate between which white bro is which, but after a while, your brain is like: “Wait, some of these white bros aren’t the same person.”  

https://twitter.com/Andrew1Richards/status/747248876730650625

This is a picture of white bros at a barbecue. Although they’re wearing the same style shirt, and many of them look identical, you have the cognitive ability to process all the whiteness that is taking place here.

But what happens when white bros not only look identical, but line up in perfect symmetry? This is what happens:

https://twitter.com/gabrielenguard/status/749957433280258048

See, no matter how many times you look at this picture, it’s hard not to be overwhelmed by all these white bros staring at you. Who are all these bros, and who convinced them to get into the privileged white male version of "Formation"? Is this some David Blaine magic trick, forcing us to confront our fears of a group of similar-looking white bros who decide to all look in our direction at the same time? Is there no god?

The fact that the one bro at the end is wearing shades doesn’t make this photo any more unsettling. It actually somehow makes things worse, because by the time you get to the end of the line, you have to deal with a white bro in Ray-Bans, which is probably the worst kind of white bro.

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Can you spot Paul Ryan among this sea of Capitol Hill summer interns? Take your time. It’s hard, probably because basically everybody in this photo is white.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH7pXnKj5t_/

A Capitol Hill internship seems like a hard-won position, earned through many years of hard work, connections, and—potentially—nepotism, so congratulations to all who made it. However, dang, there is a lack of melanin in that room.

https://twitter.com/cbenjaminrucker/status/754673548833202176

https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/754662671736246273

How could this happen? How could there be dozens of interns and not a single, visible black face? Well, maybe Paul Ryan is a terrible magician who can only make other white people appear. Think about it.

https://twitter.com/JordanFreiman/status/754675017154256896

The 114th Congress is the most diverse ever, but that was a low bar to cross. According to Pew Research, only 17 percent of Congress is non-white. White people make up 83 percent of Congress, but just 62 percent of the general U.S. population. According to a Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies report from December 2015, non-white people make up just 7.1 percent of top Senate staffers. States with high Black and Hispanic populations tend to have fewer senior staffers of color.

Looking at this photo, it’s hard not to see how that happens.

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There comes a time in everyone’s life when they come across something that is hard for them to comprehend. When a person is inevitably presented with this thing, they do their best to make sense of it, but no matter how hard they try, nothing can alleviate the confusion they feel. 

An example of one such unfortunate episode:

https://twitter.com/DWalkerCA/status/727309816763281408

This is just one out of billions of instances of white people doing things that make zero sense. The month of May 2016 has already seen about 700,000 "why is that person doing that?" moments, and it’s not even the 19th yet. Unfortunately, we can't post them all here, so we gathered only those that exude peak caucasity.

https://twitter.com/NBCDFW/status/732133541786619904

This was completely unfortunate and also extremely white. How could one think that a wild animal was so cold that they needed to lounge in the backseat of an SUV? Did they think the calf was no different from a housepet? How many white people did it take to get the poor calf into the car? So many questions.

https://twitter.com/KPRC2/status/730094137639378944

A sorority girl got super wasted, wandered away from her wasted friends, and decided to climb a tree—only to get stuck in it and scream “my parents are gonna fucking kill me” over and over. That is the only possible way this scenario could have played out.

https://vine.co/v/i2UXbX6K297

This is the first known recording of a group of young white men doing the Macarena to a rap song. No one asked for this or expected it to ever come to fruition—but here we are. If you have a therapist, now would be the time to pick up the phone and ask for some support.

https://twitter.com/BN9/status/732186784205930500

Apparently, this woman grabbed a tiny shark by its tail, which is why this happened. Thank you, shark. Thank you for not letting another white person think they could bro down with a shark without walking away unscathed. Thank you for refusing to unlatch your teeth from her, even though your own life was in jeopardy. Thank you for being the patron saint of “not today, white girl.” You did not die in vain.  

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/728297587418247168

Self-explanatory. 

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There’s been quite an uproar on the interwebs lately about white actors being cast in roles originated by Asians.

https://twitter.com/camivequ/status/720443113005838336

https://twitter.com/LunkenDrush/status/722540343544008704

https://twitter.com/Anthonyxsiedlec/status/720985102424154112

https://twitter.com/xox_jezrelle/status/722622958133493761

But this outrage seems a bit much considering white people have been playing Asians in movies forever—and doing it quite well. There’s no reason to cast Rinko Kikuchi as Motoko in Ghost in the Shell when Scarlett Johansson can bring her white-girl flavor to the role. In fact, more white people should steal roles from other Asian actors, because why not? 

Here are some Caucasian actors who deserve this opportunity.

1) Tom Cruise as Genghis Khan

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEOcsCgMIwZ/

Rei Kawakubo built her fashion empire in the '60s as the founder of Comme des Garçons. Martha Stewart kinda did the same thing. This casting choice is a no-brainer.

5) This baby as Amy Tan

Photo via meteo021/Fotolia © (Used with permission)

Only a Caucasian newborn could pull off a role like this.

6) Gerard Butler as literally any Asian person

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEUI6opkAc3/

He’s just coming off of Gods of Egypt, in which he played a pretty convincing Egyptian, so Hollywood should give him a chance to play the role of an Asian person. Seriously, what’s the point of casting someone of Asian descent when there are so many white people available? 

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Literary Twitter is full of characters, but few are as distinctive, or as funny, as @GuyInYourMFA. Written as a send-up of every pompous, self-delusional young scribe haunting your local liberal arts college, the parody account should be very recognizable to anyone who has ever taken a creative writing workshop or attended a coffee house poetry reading.

https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA/status/604310865282613248

https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA/status/607254609590108160

https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA/status/589903878298165248

@GuyInYourMFA is the ultimate boring lit-dude, as versed in the Great American Novels (read: Novels by White Guys) as he is in writerly clichés. The real writer behind him, the brilliant Dana Schwartz, also helms the equally popular @DystopianYA, which parodies well-worn tropes of the YA genre. I interviewed @GuyInYourMFA to try to get at the man behind the woman behind the biting parody.

Hello, @GuyInYourMFA. Where are you right now?

I am sitting in a coffee shop, drinking a free-trade Americano black. My worn copy of Gaddis' J R is on the table beside my typewriter. 

You are presumably on summer break from your MFA program. How are you spending the break?

You misunderstand the life of an artist—I’m never on break. I’m spending my days the same way I spend all of my days: attempting to seduce the muse of fiction. In the evenings, I’m a bartender. 

You misunderstand the life of an artist—I’m never on break.

Why did you decide to do an MFA? Are you learning much in the degree?

Again, you fail to grasp that I didn’t “decide” to do an MFA; I was compelled to, by the incessant harpy’s call of literature. To be completely honest, I don’t learn much from my colleagues—I feel as though my work is providing the education. You’d be surprised how often so-called “writers” fail to grasp even the basic concept of metaphor. 

Tell us a little about your background. Where did you grow up? Do you come from a big family? You've mentioned your mother on your Twitter. What is she like?

I grew up in the American suburbs, in the world of white picket fences and Old Fashions before dinner and forgotten secrets. My family consists of my father, a stoic man, difficult to know and more difficult to love; my little brother Robbie, who has sold his soul to the devils on Wall Street in exchange for his chance at the American Dream; and my mother Elaine, a long-suffering housewife who fails to understand the important work of the artist. 

Any big writing projects brewing?

I’m currently writing my second novel, a deconstruction of the meaninglessness of post-9/11 America through a series of one-night stands in Bushwick. 

Can you walk us through your typical day of classes? How do you get along with your professors? 

While most of my professors don’t seem to recognize my unique voice (insisting that I use “proper grammar” and “spellcheck” and “complete sentences” and “multidimensional characters”), a few do see me as more of a colleague than a student. I happened to grab a cognac with Professor Kirkman after workshop on Tuesday, but the other students shouldn’t feel bad about him not asking them or anything.  

I’m currently writing my second novel, a deconstruction of the meaninglessness of post-9/11 America through a series of one-night stands in Bushwick. 

Are any of your writing professors women? Any friction there?

One. My first year in the program, my poetry professor was a woman (I’ll refrain from using her name to protect her from embarrassment). To put it simply, she neglected to grasp the complexities of my work. She failed to understand that revision is contrary to my process as an artist. 

I remember from my own MFA that the degree involves doing a lot of public readings. Do you enjoy reading your own work in public? How have people responded to your work?

I shy away from reading my own work outside of an academic environment for two reasons. The first: I did not go into writing for the acclaim and admiration I inevitably will receive. It shouldn’t matter to my writing how well my slouchy hat fits on my head, how sharp my jawline is, or how perfectly un-groomed my stubble. People should focus on the words themselves. Second, once my work is filtered through my voice, it becomes harder for the reader to see the protagonist as an Everyman. I want every 24-year-old white man reading my work to see himself in my stories. 

Speaking of your work, you often tweet about this big novel you're working on. Care to tease any details about it? Maybe even a short excerpt?

I can give you my working title: Boundless Afflictions. Here is a very brief excerpt: “He pulled the sheet around him. The woman was still there, naked, her skin milky white and pale in the early morning light like a translucent china plate. A siren wailed outside the window and the man rose from the mattress on the floor with a quiet groan. He wanted a cigarette.”

Who are the biggest influences on your writing? Are there any contemporary writers who inspire you?

Gaddis, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Nabokov—I could go on. I will say Jonathan Franzen is a writer I’d consider an equal—I was moderately impressed by his piece which appeared in The New Yorker last week.

I want every 24-year-old white man reading my work to see himself in my stories. 

What is your creative process like? Walk us through a typical writing session.

I prefer to bring my typewriters to coffee shops and bars to break down the wall between the artistic process and the outside world. I get my drink—either black coffee or whisky, no ice—and get to work as soon as inspiration strikes. I do not edit. I let the words flow through me as they flowed through Joyce and Ginsberg. 

Your Twitter is very popular. But how do you square social networking with your concerns with hight art? Isn't Twitter too lowbrow for you?

My “tweets” are actually musings that I’ve written on spare scraps of paper. An acquaintance, Dana Schwartz, puts them on the web for the edification of the masses. 

Let's do some word association... I'll say a few words and you say the first thing that pops into your head: Typewriter. 

Tactile.

Woman. 

Simple. 

I will say Jonathan Franzen is a writer I’d consider an equal—I was moderately impressed by his piece which appeared in The New Yorker last week.

Jonathan Franzen.

Artist.

Alcohol.

Inspiration.

Money.

Meaningless.

Virginia Woolf.

Simple.

Pulitzer.

Inevitable. 

What do you hope to accomplish with your writing?

I write in order to understand, and hopefully to give a much needed voice to the white, upper-middle class American male in society today. 

If you had one thing to say to your generation of young writers, what would it be?

Read books by the great white men. If you share the gift, you’ll know. If not, support those who do as best you can.

Photo via CCAC North Library/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Chicago resident Rochelle Latrice Robinson was having an off day at her job at the Brookfield Zoo. So she decided to post a selfie on her Instagram.

The 22-year-old posted the pic of herself in her green zoo uniform with the caption "Whassup, y'all? At work serving these rude ass white people." She then proceeded to actually tag her employer, the Brookfield Zoo, in the public post.

Facebook/ShanaPoohPoohLatrice

While tagging her employer in the post probably wasn't the smartest move, Robinson probably couldn't have anticipated what happened next. Her casual statement of annoyance at "rude ass white people" prompted the zoo's patrons to explode with anger. Many posted outraged, sometimes outright racist, calls for Robinson's termination on the Brookfield Zoo Facebook page.

After the local news media picked up the story, the Brookfield Zoo posted a public statement on Tuesday declaring "zero tolerance for these kinds of divisive behaviors." The post also stated that the the zoo management took "prompt action to remedy the situation this morning."

By Tuesday afternoon, however, the majority of comments on the Facebook page were in defense of the young employee.  "I won't go to a zoo that silences employees when they talk about racism," one zoo patron stated. Another commented: "You people all need to relax. If this is a real concern in your life it is time to reevaluate."

According to the Chicago Tribune, Robinson was let go from her job after she posted the selfie. "We do not tolerate this behavior," zoo spokeswoman Sondra Katzen told the Tribune.

But on her own Facebook page, Robinson made it pretty clear that she wasn't overly concerned about the loss of her job. As of Tuesday evening, the only public posts on her profile are a photo of her flipping off the camera, as well as a statement posted on Monday dismissing claims that her "rude ass white people" remark was racist.

Rochelle Robinson/Facebook

Photo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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While the Supreme Court officially declared that segregation based on race should end in 1954, any social scientist can tell you that separation between people of different races is alive and well. 

Through a process called “tracking,” the Department of Education has accused many school districts of unfairly denying black students opportunities by “designating students for separate educational paths based on their academic performance as teens or younger,” according to the Atlantic's Sonali Kohli. As Kohli writes, this practice “favors white students and keeps students of color, many of them black, from long-term equal achievement.” 

In general, higher-level classes are statistically more likely to be less diverse than in schools that don’t practice tracking, one of many causes for the achievement gap in schools that then leads to further inequality. 

In an equally pernicious manner, the segregation present in the housing market further delineates the geographic boundaries between blacks and whites. According to a recent study by the National Institute of Health, racial makeup of a neighborhood is a vital factor in choosing a new home for both black and white residents, and the University of Michigan reports that trend has particularly negative economic effects on black neighborhoods: “Inner city black poverty is caused by the flight of jobs to suburbs, where blacks can't reach them.”

Any social scientist can tell you that separation between people of different races is alive and well.

As it is with most social ills, these modern forms of segregation have followed us online. Despite the Internet’s reputation as “the great equalizer,” social networks develop “white neighborhoods” and “black neighborhoods” and for more reasons than self-segregation.

The division between races online is a harmful echo of the realities of American racial politics, and one that re-enforces a divide between life for white Americans and life for black Americans. This segregation is not only a result of inequality between races but an important cause of a communication breakdown that worsens it.

While it might seem odd, race seems to be a major indicator in which social media sites you’ll use. While roughly equal percentages of blacks and whites use social media, divides become present when we look at which sites they’re using. The percentage of black people on Twitter (22 percent), for example, outnumbers the percentage of white people who use Twitter (16 percent). 

Instagram also shows a significant gap between white and black populations, with 20 percent of African-Americans claiming use of Instagram and just 14 percent of white Americans. Both groups, however, are equally likely to be Facebook users, although adoption of Facebook spread faster among white populations than it did in black populations.

The reasons for the racial disparity on Twitter and Instagram could be a result of number of factors. The most important aspect for most users when choosing a social network is whether they have any IRL friends to interact with on said site, so it’s easy for a core group of trendsetters within any population to drive traffic to one location. 

Another possible cause, however, is rooted in the economics of how people connect online.

As it is with most social ills, these modern forms of segregation have followed us online.

While broadband Internet connections are equally common in black or white households, the rate of adoption was quite slow. As Associate Director of the Pew Research Center Amanda Lenhart postulates, this slow growth of broadband and at-home Internet connections forced many young African-Americans to go right to smartphones over a desktop computer. This holds true today: Slightly more young African-Americans own a smartphone than white Americans. 

This is important because how you use the Internet is drastically affected by how you access it. Twitter and Instagram, for example, were “mobile first” apps and therefore better designed for use on a smartphone than Facebook, which was originally imagined as a website simply because there were no smartphones in 2004 when the site went live.

Instagram, on the other hand, was created in 2010 with mobile in mind—Instagram.com continues to deny users some core features available on the mobile app, such as Direct Messages. 

The mobile divide is even illustrated by the history of Twitter. When the microblogging site was born from a brainstorming session in 2006, the site was originally imagined as a public board where people could post via SMS text message, and Twitter existed as a phone number before it ever existed as a website. In contrast, Facebook struggled for years to get their app to be as useful and functional as their site.

So if any population finds itself adopting smartphones faster than broadband Internet connections, it makes complete sense they would jump to apps that better emphasize the mobile experience. What this has created, however, is separate and distinct virtual worlds where black users and white users mingle even less than they do now. According to a study by the Public Religion Research Institute, 65 percent of blacks and 75 percent of whites admitted to having social networks entirely made up of members of their own race.

How you use the Internet is drastically affected by how you access it. 

The effects of this are subtle but no less harmful. Interactions with people of another race or ethnicity are consistently found to improve feelings of empathy towards all people of that group. Because so much social interaction has moved to digital spaces, it truly matters when the infrastructure of our online lives restricts races from interacting.

This was the fear of Danah Boyd when a she led a research team to follow the exodus from MySpace to Facebook in 2009. According to Boyd, what occurred as the transition from one site to the other took place was an odd form of “white flight.”

“Those who deserted MySpace did so by choice,” Boyd writes. “But their decision to do so was wrapped up in their connections to others, in their belief that a more peaceful, quiet, less-public space would be more idyllic.” The effect of this for a time was seeing Facebook as a gated community and MySpace as a ghetto.

Of course, the effects of such online segregation can never touch the harmful aspects of real world segregation, a quiet reality that can affect equal opportunity for education, housing, employment, and fairness in the criminal justice system. What online segregation does effect, however, is attitudes.

Social media is becoming rather notorious for fostering echo chambers between separate ideologies, allowing us all to pat each other on the back by surrounding ourselves with people we already agree with from similar backgrounds. As Boyd noted in her study of MySpace, there wasn’t much “networking” to be found; we simply talk to who we already want to talk to. 

But in the same way selecting homogenous neighborhoods and friends limits our exposure to other races, so does our choice of social network. The core infrastructure of the Internet is keeping white and black voices in different rooms to the detriment of both races and the Internet they use. 

Gillian Branstetter is a social commentator with a focus on the intersection of technology, security, and politics. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Business Insider, Salon, the Week, and xoJane. She attended Pennsylvania State University. Follow her on Twitter @GillBranstetter. 

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It’s been about a week since the gift of #TheDress was given to the world, spawning countless memes and crappy branded ad campaigns. But the Salvation Army in South Africa is taking the traffic bonanza that resulted from the viral phenomenon and using it for good.

AdWeek reports that the organization has just released a domestic violence PSA inspired by the dress. The ad depicts a beaten and bruised woman wearing the iconic garment, flanked with the words, “Why is it so hard to see black and blue?”

Salvation Army

The caption underneath reads: “The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One in 6 women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women.”

Of course, this is far from the only branded #Dress-themed campaign that’s emerged in the wake of the viral phenomenon. The ad could easily be interpreted as a craven marketing ploy, as well as a trivialization of the very serious issue of domestic violence (especially in light of the fact that South Africa has been referred to as having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the world).

But the ad is certainly attention-grabbing. And let’s be honest: If advertisers are using #TheDress to give their campaign more reach, well, there are worse things they could be using it for.

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