Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has become fully “red-pilled” by an 8chan conspiracy theory
It was concerning enough when in January 2018, the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue encouraged followers to look into the allegations of an anonymous conspiracy theorist on the 8chan message board. Now, it appears that Operation Rescue, with its history of violent rhetoric and harassment, has become fully converted and is seeking to cultivate anti-abortion followers into believers in a far-right conspiracy theory.
Headed by longtime extremists Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger — the latter has served time for conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic — Operation Rescue has been described as an organization dedicated to “shut[ting] down abortion clinics by systematically harassing their employees into quitting.” Operation Rescue initially signaled that they’d been “red-pilled” — a term popularized by the “alt-right” to refer to an ideological conversion to “seeing the world as it really is” — in a January 7 press release, in which the group signal-boosted a series of posts from a far-right community on 8chan. MORE…
