An avalanche of hate How a Montana mom became the target of a neo-Nazi troll storm

[PatrickforO]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: CNN

Whitefish, Montana (CNN)Once the calls began, they did not stop. Swiping to decline a call just led to the phone ringing again. Blocked number after blocked number filled up the voice mail. Deleting one message just created space for another to take its place. Then came the tweets and the email messages. The volume was overwhelming. The content: vile and terrifying.

Gunshots rang out from voice mails. Emails and texts read: "I hope you die," "Kill yourself," "We will take pleasure in your pain." Tanya Gersh found herself buried in an avalanche of hate, one she had not seen coming and one that focused on one fact: She's Jewish. The messages began late at night and continued into the early hours, keeping her family awake. Or there was a night of silence, broken by an onslaught at 4 a.m., jolting the family from sleep. One voice mail -- "You are surprisingly easy to find on the Internet. And in real life" -- ended Gersh's lifelong practice of leaving her home and car unlocked in her little Montana town, nestled by a lake in the Rocky Mountains.

Gersh appears to have become a target for hate after contacting the mother of known white supremacist Richard Spencer. Gersh says she warned Sherry Spencer about looming protests at a building owned by Spencer in Whitefish, a Montana town of 7,300 where both women live. Gersh says she advised Spencer to disavow the views of her son, including that the United States is a country for white people. She says she offered to sell Spencer's property as of a way of defusing tensions in town. Gersh suggested Spencer donate money to a human rights group.

Anyone who read Daily Stormer had access to all Gersh's information after Anglin posted it time and again. He put up photos and personal details: phone number, address, workplace and social media profiles -- including one used by her 12-year-old son. Each contained instructions to tell Gersh how they felt. "Listen here you fucking Jew. You had better back off and leave Richard Spencer's mom alone, you dirty scumbag," one caller said on Gersh's voice mail. "You fucking Jew. You had better back off of Richard Spencer's mom. Everybody is watching you." The Daily Stormer published more about Gersh and her "Jew agenda," once with a doctored photo showing her and her tween son on the gates of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/us/avalanche-of-hate-daily-stormer-lawsuit/index.html

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This is what Donald Trump and his right wing minions stand for. You think these ignorant, inbred, racist, heavily armed fucks won't start another Holocaust????

That it can't happen here????

Think again. Here's what I say:

NEVER AGAIN.

NEVER AGAIN.

NEVER AGAIN.

NEVER AGAIN.

[catbyte]

1. I saw that reporton CNN, it was horrific. The worst thing is, she probably sees a lot of those

maggots every day. Apologies to actual maggots. The west seems to be rife with them.

[bora13]

2. she needs a good man

to help defend her.
I would love to kick some wholesale ass of anyone
who openly or I witnessed doing that to someone.

[blur256]

9. Um no

She doesn't need a "good man," she needs people not to he assholes. Jesus h.

[bora13]

10. ok a good woman

how about someone who would help protect and fight back.

[blur256]

11. That i can agree with

Sorry just spent a week with my wife trying to keep kids from being non judgemental and gender biased.

[iluvtennis]

3. Hateful asswipes. Please be safe Ms Gersch.

[hadEnuf]

5. Diseased Nazi filth

that needs to be driven back into the sewers they slithered out from.


I hope she sues the shit out of these vermin and puts their scum website out of business.

[broadcaster90210]

6. Behold America

THIS is what the GOP hath brought down upon us.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

12. The GOP may have enabled this stuff

but it didn't start with this incident. We like to think we all get along here in the US but this demonstrates how far from reality that idea is..........

[Initech]

7. I'm going to post this story on every deplorable who says the left are violent lunatics.

We're not the ones leaving death threats like this. Fuck these fucking assholes.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. It is anti-Semitism so not "sexy".

I am glad you and a few others (on other stories) are taking notice of the increasing anti-Semitism and find it repulsive, but the sad truth, is most don't give two shits when the victim is a Jew. Until the cattle cars roll, they still won't care, and even then it won't be until AFTER the inevitable happens, and THAT still won't deter some...then there are the assholes on the right.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Locking - the hosts feel this is a background feature, rather than a breaking news story

There does not seem to be a specific recent event this is about. It's a summary of what's happened over several months. We did have an LBN thread with what seems to have been the latest development: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141815791

Please repost in GD. Thanks.