The reality of Trump’s alt-right trolls: They’ll put your 7-year-old’s face on a gas chamber
Source: Vox
In a disturbingly raw piece for National Review last week, French discussed the torrent of abuse unleashed on his family by alt-right fanatics and Trump supporters. The harassment began in 2015 when French was publicly critical of Trump, but it escalated when his name was leaked as a possible third-party candidate.
I saw images of my daughters face (an Ethiopian girl French adopted) in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her, French writes. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a niglet and a dindu.
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David French: Then round two happened when I talked to Bill Kristol about the possibility of mounting an admittedly long-shot independent run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And the trolls came in force once again with all the same sorts of images. They launched a series of taunts at me that they were having sex with my wife, which was particularly hurtful and harmful because my wife is a survivor of sex abuse.
And then it got worse as things moved from Twitter to email. We had a very deeply disturbing email death threat, and then just a couple of weeks ago my wife was talking on the telephone with her father and a person broke into the call. It sounds crazy, but it happened. A man started screaming profanities at her and my elderly father-in-law about Donald Trump. We immediately contacted law enforcement, and theyre trying to figure out what happened.
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Read more: http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/27/13428612/donald-trump-david-french-alt-right-trolls-republican-party
Much more that's new from French at the link. Not just more details about what these dangerous trolls have been doing, but French's very thoughtful commentary on the alt-right and Trump's demagoguery.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)What a freak show the right is.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)someone like Trump giving voice to them on a national, nay, global level is what makes them truly and horribly dangerous!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)sheshe2
(83,323 posts)They are completely insane.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,148 posts)The rest of what they threw at him and his family is awful.
The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)A Daily Stormer tagline usually attached to a vid of violent black men
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Holding signs that read: "I'm not a Dem, I'm not a Republican, I'm an American. TRUMP 2016"
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)Never gave a shit when this abuse was heaped on liberal reporters or really any woman with a social media presence?
He had a platform in the "conservative media" for years before this third party run.
greenman3610
(3,947 posts)You built this, you bastard
lark
(23,001 posts)He will make Hitler look good if America is so fucked that he becomes our president. I don't think that will happen absent total chaos and riots, but him and these assholes that follow him are still very scary.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Never seen anything like it, I read they have taken over twitter.