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Many users refer to their hatred of "Googles," "Skypes," and "Yahoos"

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]By Ethan Harfenist
Oct 01, 2016 at 4:00 PM ET

It seems that alt-right “Someone With Tiny Hands Twitter” has come up with a new way of transmitting racist messages via the social media app. Some right-wing Twitter users have adopted a codified lexicon of slurs aimed at skirting Twitter’s prohibition of hate content.

Twitter user Alex Goldman, who works for the podcast Reply All, found and posted the list of words on Saturday morning. It apparently shows the words being used for minority groups in the U.S., including “skittles” for Muslims (a reference to Someone With Tiny Hands Jr.’s extremely misguided tweet), “Skypes” for Jews, and “Yahoos” for Hispanic people, among others.

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Alex Goldman ✔ @AGoldmund
Racist Someone With Tiny Hands twitter has come up with a new coded way to share racial slurs w/ each other and avoid account suspension.
8:08 AM - 1 Oct 2016
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Searching some of the terms in Twitter, it seems members of the alt-right have been using these terms for at least a week.

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White Genocide @WhiteGenocide33
Fuck the Googles, Skypes, Skittles and the rest. Tonight's #Debates2016 is gonna be another shoah #debates
10:30 AM - 26 Sep 2016
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Deplorable Vic Sharp @VictorSharp
We need to boycott products where the tv ads features googles attempting to act like humans. Ads are made by skypes.
9:49 PM - 28 Sep 2016
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KaliYugaSurfer @KaliYugaBrah
Chain the googles

Gas the yahoos

Search engine war now

(h/t WSoH)
1:38 PM - 24 Sep 2016
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AltRightInfo ? @AltRightInfo
#IfAGenieGrantedMeAWish I'd ban googles, yahoos, skypes and skittles :^)
7:03 PM - 28 Sep 2016
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It remains to be seen if Twitter will monitor uses of these words more carefully now that others outside of the alt-right are hip to their racist uses. Recently, online racists officially ruined the Pepe the Frog meme, causing the Anti-Defamation League to list it as a hate symbol.

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