Episode 98plus: Ash Sarkar 'Orangegate' Interview w/ Annie Kelly

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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"🍊🍊🍊" — an Instagram post containing three emojis is how it all started. UK-based Journalist & Activist Ash Sarkar joins us to describe being at the center of a far-right conspiracy theory, one that culminated in a massive wave of death threats. Together with Annie Kelly, Ash discusses the "QAnonification" of the UK far-right racist landscape and what political purposes these symbol-based conspiracy theories serve. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Ash Sarkar: https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar Follow Annie Kelly: https://twitter.com/AnnieKNK Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous. Music by Giraffi Dog (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/album/giraffi-dog-lexistence-du-r-ve)

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0:00.0	What's up QAA listeners?
0:05.0	The fun games have begun.
0:08.0	I found a way to connect to the internet.
0:11.0	I'm sorry boy.
0:13.0	Boy.
0:14.0	Boy.
0:15.0	Welcome, listener, to a bonus addendum to a 98th episode of the QAnon Anonymous podcast,
0:22.0	the Ash Sarkar Orange Gate Interview episode.
0:25.0	Hello there, beloved listeners.
0:27.0	It's your UK correspondent Annie Keeh.
0:29.0	I'm Sat and an appropriate social distance from Ash Sarkar, a British left wing journalist
0:34.0	and activist who found herself at the centre of a far-right conspiracy theory that she was
0:39.0	sending coded messages, celebrating a terror attack through orange emojis on social media
0:44.0	a few weeks ago.
0:45.0	Ash, thanks so much for coming on.
0:47.0	Thanks for having me.
0:48.0	So, we go into a little bit of the madness in our latest episode, but I wonder if you could
0:53.0	tell us what went down with the orange emojis from your point of view.
0:57.0	So, from my point of view, it started on the Saturday evening, I'd gone to the park with
1:02.0	my partner to meet up with some friends.
1:05.0	Before they got there, I was like, I think I look really cute and I've got an orange lolly
1:10.0	and there are orange bits on my bike.
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