HOW DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS
This is why we get everyone out to the polls to vote FOR Hillary and AGAINST the horror that is DJT. If anyone in my sphere of influence in the world, real or virtual, who does not stand up to this evil, know that I will consider you to be no different than one of his hardcore supporters. No amount of parsing or rationalizing can make me think otherwise. We learn early in life that there are both acts of commission and omission which are equally wrong. This is one of those circumstances where they converge. The evil Eichenwald writes about in this article is a great one. Most other differences, right or left, can be resolved if we sit down and work together. This evil, however, must be driven out. The first place to start is by standing up and defending those who are defenseless or on the receiving end of it. THe next place is at the ballot box in November. No excuses. No parsing. No tolerance for this hatred is acceptable.
http://www.newsweek.com/epileptogenic-pepe-video-507417
Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. It’s better controlled now than it has been during other parts of my life, but not completely—my neurologist tells me I have intractable epilepsy, meaning treatment will never bring the condition fully under control. I know how people—particularly children—with seizures suffer when uninformed idiots suggest they should impose limits of their lives or quell their aspirations. So when Fox News blowhard and college dropout Sean Hannity practically drooled in delight this election season as he falsely proclaimed that Hillary Clinton suffered from seizures based on her acting goofy in a short video clip, it infuriated me. I knew how his message would be heard—people with seizures look ridiculous, they should be afraid of others laughing at them, they should listen to the voices telling them they can’t do what they want (even be president). And so I raged at Hannity in the pages of Newsweek, on cable television news shows and on Twitter.
A couple of weeks later, after my article about how Trump’s business interests would create a conflict of unprecedented proportions, I received a tweet from someone with the twitter handle “Mike's Deplorable AF.” Like many Trump supporters, he has chosen to identify himself as deplorable to mock the label once used by Clinton to describe the racists, neo-Nazis, homophobes and like who have crawled out of the sewer to cheer for the Republican nominee. Mike, however, is indeed deplorable.
In his tweet, which has since been deleted, Mike made mention of my seizures and included a small video. It contained images of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has been identified by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol. I was carrying my iPad, looking at the still image on the video and, without thinking, touched the PLAY button.
The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. It’s what’s called epileptogenic—something that triggers seizures. Fortunately, since I was standing, I simply dropped my iPad to the ground the second I realized what Mike had done. It landed face down on the bathroom floor...more
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