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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite supremacists website complains about article on Melania Trump, "the wife of our dear leader".
Journalist barraged with anti-Semitic threats after profiling Donald Trumps wifeBasically," says Ioffe, I woke up to find that the Daily Stormer, which is a white supremacist website, wrote a piece saying that I had attacked Empress Melania, the wife of their glorious leader those are their words, not mine and they basically asked everyone to send me a tweet, saying how it made them feel.
Immediately, Ioffe says, I was getting some pretty vile images in my email and Twitter feed. You know, caricatures of Jews being shot, execution-style; a Back To The Future poster re-done as Back To The Oven; suggesting I would look good on a lampshade.
"The volume, and the way that basically a whole army seems to have been snapped into action, is more disconcerting to me than the specific phone calls, says Ioffe, because it makes me think that, given Donald Trumps hostility to the press, suggesting that we loosen our libel laws so its easier to go after journalists; getting people at his rallies to boo at the press; constantly vilifying journalists and attacking them the question is, what does this imply for our country, and the healthiness of our public discourse, and the freedom of our press.
I dont think and I dont know that Melania Trump sent these anti-Semitic trolls to my virtual doorstep, says Ioffe. But she did express displeasure with my article. She named me. And this is what happened. This has happened to journalists before me, and Im sure it will happen again.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-29/journalist-barraged-anti-semitic-threats-after-profiling-donald-trump-s-wife
Given that Trump will be running against a Jew or a woman in the general election, I think he has the white supremacist vote locked up.
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White supremacists website complains about article on Melania Trump, "the wife of our dear leader". (Original Post)
pampango
May 2016
OP
I bet none of the morans read GQ. It was M Trump via social media that gave them the
Person 2713
May 2016
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CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)1. Reminds me of the scene in the Blues Brothers...
...where the white supremacists had to jump in the river.
Or get run over.
Loved that scene.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)2. I bet none of the morans read GQ. It was M Trump via social media that gave them the
name of the journalist being harassed
Think about that -very off with her head stuff
Think about the future and that if in power, these two at anytime, anyone or group a finger can be pointed and their mob will dutifully attack without conscience or much reason of why