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They want to destroy Leslie Jones: Harassment targeting Ghostbusters star exposes the ugliness driving the new rightby Amanda Marcotte at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/24/they-want-to-destroy-leslie-jones-harassment-targeting-ghostbusters-star-exposes-the-ugliness-driving-the-new-right/
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But to the racist, misogynist internet, just letting Jones and her fans enjoy this moment could not stand. You see, Jones is black, female, and middle-aged, and therefore, in their eyes, she must be punished and humiliated for her success. On Wednesday, hackers attacked Joness website, replacing her regular content with stolen nude photos, private information, and racist gorilla imagery.
This comes on top of a summer-long campaign of Twitter harassment that was so vile that it drove Jones off Twitter, forcing the company which is notoriously reluctant to do much about internet harassment to actually take measures to stem the tide of abuse.
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But this story goes straight back to the presidential race. You see, one of the main reasons that Jones is a favorite target of the worst people on the internet is because she was chosen as one by Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer and editor at Breitbart. He spent so much time and effort riling up the rats against her that it got him suspended permanently by Twitter, in fact. And Yiannopouloss boss Stephen Bannon now runs the Donald Trump campaign.
Make no mistake: Yiannopoulos got his job at Breitbart not despite, but because of his skills at whipping up the sociopathic internet into a frenzy of resentment at even the hint that they might have to share the world with women and people of color.
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AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)If their mothers and fathers had done their job and raised them right they wouldn't be behaving like this as adults.
This is poor home training.
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)never seen before.
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)They should be careful when they laugh at their worthless peers - like don't eat at the same time.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)Someone who is "no friend" to us had to post one of their attention "can't use THAT word at DU" threads about it.
Probably snickering about it in front of the screen.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Pretty much the same results...
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)White men are ridiculed and treated like house negroes for the taking? Interesting. Most black women don't have the time to do that. So is it white men doing it to other white men?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)From top to bottom- first page, search on Black Women
(For the most part it is a bunch of self-important blah blah blah rants trying to get views and YouTube money for all these vids)
"Black Women Are Ugly!" (Racial Dating Preference)
I See Why Black Men Hate Black Women Like This Part 1/4
5 Misconceptions About Black Women
Twitter vs Kodak Black~Kodak DISSES Black Women: where dem yellowbones dont want no black b*h🙅🏿
Reasons I Wont Date Black Women, @Tjsotomayor "Tommy Sotomayor" might be Right!
Its A Wrap For Black Women!
Episode 25 pt. 1 - Why are Black Women Single?
Milwaukee Black Protestors Say Black Women Need Weaves To Survive
Stop Disrespecting Black Women
12 Beauty Struggles Black Women Know Too Well
Why Are Images Of Black Women Such A Problem For Google?
Destruction Of Black Women - Documentary
Black Women Defending what can't be Defended
Why Black Women Constantly Reject Good Men
Black Women, Protect Yourself - BWGTOW
3 Commercials Clowning Black Women
Black Women Respond To Nina
WHY BLACK MEN DON'T DATE BLACK WOMEN
BLACK WOMEN LIKE CHRISTELYN KARAZIN WANT BLACK MEN THEY HATE TO DEFEND THEM AS CRAKA-FU BACKFIRE
Black Women Lack Communicational Skills
WHY I PREFER WHITE MEN OVER BLACK MEN?
QUESTIONS WHITE MEN HAVE FOR SJWs!
The Reason White Men are Blamed for Everything
Black Girls Kiss White Guys 'For the First Time'
WHAT DO BLACK WOMEN & WHITE MEN HAVE IN COMMON??
RESPONSE WHY I PREFER WHITE MEN OVER BLACK MEN "BED WENCH"
Why I don't date white men
Why More White Men Are Dying From Gun Suicides
Black Women & White Men - MGTOW
If Black Women Said The Stuff White Men Say
Men Chant 'Black Lives Matter' Before Viciously Attacking White Victims
White Men Can't Jump? - Is It True
Are Black Women Sweeter, More Feminine & Submissive To White Men Part 1
Why Black Women Belong With White Men
BWGTOW And White Men
White Men vs. SJWs - UTH 9
White Men Only Want Black Chicks To Use Them For Their Sexual Fetishism!
Black men White men and where to find bae?
Dear Blk Wmn: If You Date White Men Then You Are A Bedwench, And Here's Why..
Straight White Men Must Apologise!
Why don't White Men like White Women?
Did Regina king advise black women to date white men?
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)look like victims.
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)The titles say it all
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Wonderful and creative allegation!
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)"His real talent is mining the resentments of reactionary losers, and encouraging them to bash any women, especially women of color, whose success reminds them of what losers they really are."
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)UTUSN
(70,686 posts)as a prime example. But it was self-serving of him as everything he says is. It was one day after the news that TANTAROS had made allegations about him, Dean CAIN, and Scott BROWN in her sexual harassment suit against AILES, and O'LOOFAH's rage was over *his* "reputation" - not that whatever TANTAROS said about him was true.
So he used Leslie's being targeted on the internet as cover for him, conveniently omitting that it was wingnut racists doing it to her while in his situation the allegations fit his history and are not gratuitous and are not hate speech.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028119290
Sam_Fields
(305 posts)Hackers do stuff for the thrill of doing it and maybe using credit card numbers to buy new computers along with the latest shoot em up games for Xbox.
rivegauche
(601 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)She is the type that brings fun into every conversation. I can't stay up late enough to watch SNL, but the commercial she is on makes me smile whenever I see it.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)There is something about her that is endearing.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)She's everything, big, gorgeous, strong, smart, funny, and it's horrifying that all some pathetic racist misogynists are so afraid of her they have to try to break her. I hope we who love strong women can hold her up and let her know she makes a lot possible for us too.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)This article you posted is jumping to conclusions.
Hackers were breaking into systems and acting like punks long before Yiannopoulos....and long before Gamergate....and long before Donald Trump.
The Presidential race has nothing to do with this.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Is that what you are saying?
2 years ago....before Trump even started running for president, hackers broke into Apple iCloud and released a ton of private pictures of celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence.
This is not new.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Must be really nice to not have to think about it/ and instead defend the fucking bigots. Real nice.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Are you seriously suggesting that racism and bigotry didn't exist before Donald Trump?
Trump is nothing but a blowhard. He's saying things that his supporters have supported for decades...even centuries! This isn't new! He didn't create a movement of hate. It was always there! Maybe it was always under the surface and you didnt see it, but it was always there.
I dont see Donald Trump as anything new. His supporters seem to be a bit more angry and emotional right now than they have been in recent years. But they were always in the shadows. And they aren't going to go away. The best you can hope for is that a Hillary win pushes them back into the shadows. But they will still be there. These people aren't going to leave the country.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Men angry that blacks and now women are leading this nation. Real fucking easy for you to blow off people's concerns saying you "don't know wht" it's happening. That's okay, the rest of us can connect the dots, without your gas lighting, give the bigots the benefit of the doubt bullshit. Amazing who you take up for here. Amazing as in what the hell.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Ok... whatever. Most people have probably never even heard of that Milo clown. Why would a hacker risk jail time to attack someone Milo doesn't like?
Leslie Jones became a target probably because she was in the news recently for doing the Ghostbusters movie that some people really, REALLY hated.
The author in the op's article is trying to link this to Trump and every Gamergate troll on the internet. Leslie Jones isn't the only female celeb who's nude pictures were hacked and thrown on the internet. And it's happened to white women too. Me, you, and the article's author has no idea what the motivations were of the hacker who did this. It's speculation.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Put up on the owners site to humiliate them with sexy pics out up to admire white actresses?
Groups of hackers congregate on Reddit and 4Chan and take their cues from assholes like Nrienart all the time. Misogynists and racists make the Internet as unbearable as the streets have always been and you want to make excuses that it's not so bad? Fuck that- it's not so bad for you , so who cares? Real progressives do! And since the issue can never ever effect you, no one effected by it actually cares what you think.
Get used to that.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)There is no longer room for cis white male.
Sorry.
History has hit u on the ass.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Julia Ioffe because she wrote something dRumpf fans didn't like about Mel dRumpf. And it was interesting to watch the dRumpf's refuse to condemn THOSE alt righties, who used their echoes program to target the reporter. Same exact hate filled and murderous and slanderous attacks against the reporter.
Wonder if they're involved with Steve Bannon, like Milo is. Even if they're separate groups who just hate women, Blacks, Jews, and think like nazis, they all like and are backing dRumpf, openly.