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riversedge

(70,224 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:20 PM Oct 2016

Writer for US conservative mag is harassed beyond anything you can imagine for denouncing Trump.

I never read the national review but this tweet was interesting. So I checked out the article. Horrible crap happening even to conservatives who dare go against Trump

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This is horrific. Writer for US conservative mag is harassed beyond anything you can imagine for denouncing Trump.


http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement



The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump


(Reuters photo: MIke Segar)



By David French October 21, 2016 12:55 PM


@DavidAFrench


Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”



I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.

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.............The phenomenon got some attention in the spring, when the Daily Beast reported not just on Mandel’s experience but also on Erickson’s, Rick Wilson’s, and others’. It’s showing no signs of slowing down, either: Big names, small names, any names — if you attack Trump, no matter who you are, your life might just change. Earlier this month, Mi-Ai Parrish, president of the Arizona Republic, wrote a powerful response to the deluge of threats and bullying prompted by the paper’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton. An Anti-Defamation League report identified 800 journalists who’ve been targeted with anti-Semitic tweets, ten journalists (including NR’s own Jonah Goldberg) who’ve borne the brunt of the attacks, and one — my friend Ben Shapiro — who’s received a staggering amount of hate:



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Thanks to the Academy and to my agent.




Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement

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Writer for US conservative mag is harassed beyond anything you can imagine for denouncing Trump. (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
Maybe that conservative writer should MineralMan Oct 2016 #2
What an awful thing to say. NO ONE should be subject to those things. n/t Lucinda Oct 2016 #3
This is sickening bravenak Oct 2016 #4
This is a turnaround canetoad Oct 2016 #5
But . . . but . . . but . . . radicalliberal Oct 2016 #6

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
2. Maybe that conservative writer should
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 07:54 PM
Oct 2016

rethink his political stances...

Sounds like he's trying to please the wrong folks.

canetoad

(17,160 posts)
5. This is a turnaround
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 08:41 PM
Oct 2016

Nancy French was very thick with the Palins, ghostwriting books for Sarah and Bristol. Wonder if they've fallen out?

radicalliberal

(907 posts)
6. But . . . but . . . but . . .
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 10:24 AM
Oct 2016

. . . this can't possibly be true! After all, the highly intelligent and well-informed Dennis Prager has declared that the U.S. is no longer a racist country. He can't possibly be wrong!

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