![]() To fight back, the Patriotic Nigras found ways to bypass the bans Linden Lab typically employs. The Patriotic Nigras were at first tolerated by the producers of Second Life, Linden Lab, but after the John Edwards attack they began to crack down and now take efforts to find and ban griefers on sight. The PN make casual use of racist, sexist, and homophobic terminology which some researchers dismiss as a joke and which others have identified as 'problematic' and 'troubling'. They have been described as /b/tards (a group affiliated with 4chan), members of, and as an offspring of the W-Hats griefer group (itself an offshoot of the Goons). The group has been linked to internet group Anonymous as both a sub-group and an early progenitor iteration. The DHRA has also described them as a prime example of online criminal gang culture including spillover effects into real life gang activity. ![]() ![]() Others have identified quasi-political motivations such as the effort to hinder the entry of corporations into Second Life, and yet others have identified their activities as nihilistic or even agonistic online branches of the political avant-garde. The group has been described as a nonpolitical online terrorist group whose central motivation is described by the term 'lulz'. Properly characterizing the Patriotic Nigras has proven difficult for critics and researchers who have observed their activities from within their raids and from afar.
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