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White Knighting

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A typical ~~White Knight~~ Jew.

White Knighting refers to the unwarranted online defense of attention whores, pretentious "artists", or douchebags, under the pretense of compassion. In other words, White Knighting is to troll a troll. The phenomenon is a kind of "rooting for the underdog" scenario, or feigning the moral highground, only with a sickeningly lame undertone of conscience-cleansing martyrdom. The White Knight hopes that his or her sympathy will give them a leg up over their heartless peers, as if the disgusting person they're sticking up for will imbue them with an air of sainthood. In the end, however, all White Knighting serves to do is merge the epic fail of the White Knight's target with White Knight themselves, creating an even bigger clusterfuck of retard subject to greater lulz. A White Knight may also be referred to as a halo-grubber, but doing so will make you look like an idiot.

1 Difference Between Real Life and Online (MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO BASEMENT-DWELLERS)
2 Common White Knighting Locations
3 Psychology of White Knighting
4 See Also
5 Examples of White Knighting on the Internets

[edit] Difference Between Real Life and Online (MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO BASEMENT-DWELLERS)

While sticking up for someone who's being harassed IRL will often yield positive results, the Internets is a different story. Nobody is forcing you to submit gay furry shit to the Internets, so if you do, prepare to get beecocked. Likewise, any other social faux pas that doesn't deserve getting your ass beat in real life is totally fair game online, because nobody put a gun to your head and said "Type dis shit, or you're dead!", so the mockery you receive is completely justified. Suffering in the real world is serious business because it can actually kill you, whereas the internet is basically a vacuum of words, numbers and pictures. As such, because your online adventures were totally optional, anybody who stands up for the garbage you just posted looks like a douchefag. White Knighting thus exposes itself as a pathetic attempt at social mobility. ON THE INTERNET.

[edit] Common White Knighting Locations

White Knights and their sycophantic schemes are typically found on message boards, blogs, or other social networking programs. The boards can vary from those drunk with moral fibre to those void of it (for the most part). The ones most frequented by these irritants are:

Something Awful
Gaia
i-mockery.com
DevianTART
YouTube Comments
Toronto Chanologists
Newfags supporting camwhores on /b/
/r9gay/
I could've saved this entire heading just by mentioning SA, really

[edit] Psychology of White Knighting

In most cases, a White Knight will also possess whatever crippling social disorder their victim has, providing him or her with all the empathy they need to create a special online friendship with their newfound chum. Unfortunately, their supposed "bond" becomes increasingly transparent when this individual is of the opposite sex. Suddenly the relationship goes from bully savior to conniving predator, as the White Knight uses their chivalrous deeds as leverage for sex. The image of the dashing /b/tard, sweeping their asbergers-diagnosed damsel off in their tattoo-covered, hillbilly arms, is too powerful an incentive to resist, so they go to great pains to flatter their victim and make them feel loved. Of course, this is really a stupid ruse to get into their cavernous panties, but when you're a furry filmmaker making less than $40,000 a year in your 30s, your standards will have to end up lower than your credit rating.

White Knighting is also commonly attributed to Internet Tough Guys, but they do White Knights a service by actually looking like they might possess balls (though they really don't). Their philosophy states that if you're going to defend some jerk-off's right to free speech that no one else is allowed to speak out against, you have to do it in ALL CAPS and with swears or %#%*^@!s every few lines. You also need to post gigantic, barely-literate blocks of text that boast about the job (i.e. trucking company) you actually work for, and that girlfriend you actually have and who actually isn't a meth addict.