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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVile Trump supporters threaten the kids of Newsweek reporter who exposed his shady business dealings
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/vile-trump-supporters-threaten-the-kids-of-newsweek-reporter-who-exposed-his-shady-business-dealings/Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. Its better controlled now than it has been during other parts of my life, but not completelymy neurologist tells me I have intractable epilepsy, meaning treatment will never bring the condition fully under control. I know how peopleparticularly childrenwith 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 heardpeople with seizures look ridiculous, they should be afraid of others laughing at them, they should listen to the voices telling them they cant 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 Trumps 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....
The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. Its whats called epileptogenicsomething 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....
Because I have written critically about Trump, I have received innumerable death threats, sometimes just general invocations that I should die, sometimes more specific threats that I should be shot or lynched, as one Trump fan wrote. I have been called kike, Jew and anti-American Zionist, even though Im Episcopalian with a Jewish father (as if that makes a difference). I have received video cartoons that look like they are from Nazi Germany of hook-nosed men dressed in Jewish garb rubbing their hands greedily over piles of money. I have been told to go back where I came from, whatever that means. I have been called fag, pedo, and oncein an email that made no sensenigger-lover. One Trump fan mentioned he knew which schools my children attended, and correctly named them. Topping it off, some Trump fans have even gone after one of my sons online, although he knew enough to immediately block them.
A couple of weeks later, after my article about how Trumps 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....
The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. Its whats called epileptogenicsomething 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....
Because I have written critically about Trump, I have received innumerable death threats, sometimes just general invocations that I should die, sometimes more specific threats that I should be shot or lynched, as one Trump fan wrote. I have been called kike, Jew and anti-American Zionist, even though Im Episcopalian with a Jewish father (as if that makes a difference). I have received video cartoons that look like they are from Nazi Germany of hook-nosed men dressed in Jewish garb rubbing their hands greedily over piles of money. I have been told to go back where I came from, whatever that means. I have been called fag, pedo, and oncein an email that made no sensenigger-lover. One Trump fan mentioned he knew which schools my children attended, and correctly named them. Topping it off, some Trump fans have even gone after one of my sons online, although he knew enough to immediately block them.
edit: Slight criticism: "Vile Trump supporters" is a tautology, like "dangerous hurricane".
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Vile Trump supporters threaten the kids of Newsweek reporter who exposed his shady business dealings (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2016
OP
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)1. I would suggest that you contact the authorities.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. That would be up to the author.