https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/23/the-converse-lynching-hysteria-proves-woke-never-went-away/ That one still image was all it took to prompt an online meltdown that dominated trending discourse across TikTok and other social-media platforms. ‘This is a white-supremacy dog whistle’, one deranged woman declared to her millions of viewers on TikTok. ‘This is a KKK, white-supremacy, lynching dog whistle. These companies… have been putting out white-supremacy dog whistles since the beginning of [the Trump] administration because it is gaining them attention.’ In another example of America’s mental-health crisis, one white woman on TikTok – who claims to be ‘nonbinary’, because of course she does – was so eager to virtue-signal to her fellow white allies that she filmed herself lighting her Converse shoes on fire. The unhinged video quickly went viral and racked up nearly six million views. Inside her echo chamber of adoring white ‘allies’, she was lauded as stunning and brave, with no one pointing out the obvious: she had already paid for the shoes, and so her stunt accomplished nothing other than creating a minor fire hazard.