Jewish family flees Lancaster County after wrongly being blamed for Christmas play cancellation

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A Jewish family has fled Lancaster County after the cancellation of a fifth grade production of A Christmas Carol was partially blamed on them by conservative news outlets.
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When news stories, which portray the school’s move as part of a “war on Christmas," broke on Fox and Breitbart News Network, the school received more than 200 complaints.

When the parents saw the reader comments to the Breitbart story suggesting their address should be published, they pulled their child from school and temporarily left the area, according to the LancasterOnline story.

“There’s no way we’re going to take a chance after the pizza incident,” they told the website.

On Dec. 5, Edgar M. Welch of Salisbury, N.C, was arrested after he fired an assault rifle in a pizza restaurant in northwest Washington D.C after reading a fake-news story that said suggested Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the location. - Philly.com

Happy Holidays!

[Hekate]

1. Tinyhands Trump and His Trolls strike again. Yee-haw MAGA.

Pardon me while I throw up.

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2. this is terrorism. the mere threat of the possibility of violence sending people fleeing.

[oberliner]

4. On the part of whom?

An anonymous online Breitbart commenter?

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6. everyone involved in making an innocent person feel the need to run from their own home.

the anonymous commenter, breitbart, donnie, and the many rabid right-wingers who threaten and harass and commit violence at the direction of these people.

[oberliner]

7. No one threatened or harassed them

There was no violence here or threat of violence.

There is zero grounds for any kind of lawsuit against anyone.

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8. a civil suit was not remotely on my mind.

my point is that we're seeing the emergence of a distributed terror network, driven by right-wing leaders at the top, with online crowds whipped into a frenzy by right-wing outlets like breitbart, sometimes leading to harassment and explicit threats of violence, and sometimes leading to actual violence.

the actual violence and sufficient harassment gives credibility to the threats, even if the violence only happens occasionally (stochastic terrorism).

this is how someone might feel the need to flee their home at the mere possibility that one such online crowd or outlet might release their address.


mark my words, we're going to see more of these brownshirts during donnie's reign of terror.

[oberliner]

9. News reports alleging that a Jewish family has fled Lancaster County are untrue and damaging"

“News reports alleging that a Jewish family has ‘fled’ Lancaster County are untrue and damaging,” said Nancy Baron-Baer, ADL Regional Director. “We spoke with the family, who explained that they went on a previously-planned vacation for the holidays. Stories like this can sow fear in the Jewish community and beyond, and it is important to stop the spread of misinformation.

http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/miscellaneous/adl-calls-reports-of-family-lancaster.html?referrer=https://t.co/ZBjdIG91Ns#.WFyPB2QrI_U

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10. Good to hear in this case

Hope the story ends there.

[oberliner]

11. Me too

It's like actual journalism doesn't even exist anymore.

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12. Depressing, innit?

[oberliner]

15. It really is

There was also that business over the past day or two with the YouTube hoaxer on that Delta flight.

[Arazi]

14. The OP should self delete

I'll wait

[Emilybemily]

3. Fucking asshole terrorist

Xtians. Burn in hell you maggots.

[oberliner]

5. What the heck?

That seems an extreme reaction.

[cwydro]

16. Um, read the thread. This story is not true.

Should be deleted.

[LittleBlue]

13. Morons

Never publish anyone's address. Especially innocent people!