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by bonemachine 4562 days ago
If you want to spike traffic, you can always follow the good example of Ron Paul & Associates, and start peppering your articles with random racial, homophobic and other gratuitous provocations. Don't overthink it, and don't make it too obvious; instead aim for approaches more oblique and back-handed, in the spirt of, e.g.:

“If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

You can also try opening with catchy titles like "The Disappearing White Majority." The idea is that, sure, such tactics will probably offend some people, but they will also generate controversy and get you talked about. And if you get flack from anyone over it, you can always claim it was the work of junior staffers, and that you had "honestly do not know" who might have said those things.

1 comments

Wow, this is the most unnecessary and untimely comment I've ever seen. This has absolutely no relevance. This does not even address the question being posed and goes off on a wild tangent that can only be meant to incite others and detract from the conversation at hand. This doesn't belong here, and I'm questioning whether the kind of person who would post such a thing does either.
Apologies to anyone who felt distracted or incited. I assure you that wasn't my intention.