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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/i-hope-you-get-raped-and-killed-msnbcs-katy-tur-details-vicious-threats-she%3famp'I Hope You Get Raped and Killed': MSNBC's Katy Tur Details the Vicious Threats She Receives Because of Trump
"And in case you want to argue this has nothing to do with the president, the most recent note I got ended with MAGA."
Katy Tur details the violent threats reporters are receiving as a result of Trump's reckless rhetoric:
3:35 PM - Aug 3, 2018
Initech
(100,080 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)We need to not be civil to assholes.
calimary
(81,320 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)...because I dared some punk kid to use f'in liberal and the n word to my face.
I said I'd ruin that kid's day and his useless high school football career
Why are so many here oblivious to the fact that this a fucking fight, not a debate?
lastlib
(23,248 posts)The only way I'm going to reason with them is with the heaviest piece of dimensional lumber I can swing.
Takket
(21,577 posts)quick, go find me an article encouraging people on the right to "reach out and understand" people on the left.
Doesn't exist.
Why is that?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Theyre insane, pissed off because Trump drove them to it, armed and probably homicidal.
What I dont understand: If I were to take a block of clay and mold something that was everything the Trump base hates, that something would be Donald Trump. How did they go so far from their values?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)From 2014:
Excerpt:
Women journalists are a particularly attractive target for internet trolls. A study by the think tank Demos found that men receive more Twitter abuse than their female counterparts in every single profession except for female journalists.
Around 5% of the tweets a female journalist gets are abusive or derogatory. Thats one in 20, more than three times the number for male journalists, or for women in general. It doesn't make a difference how well-known she is: the figure holds true whether she's Caitlin Moran or the editor of the Whitby Gazette.
The nature of the trolls' comments could point to the reason for the singling out of women writers and presenters. Abuse is often aggressively sexual. Rape threats are common as are insults about a womans appearance. Too much sexuality or not enough seem to be equally problematic: female journalists could be a slut or 'in need of a shag'. The majority of the trolls are men. This is, clearly, a sexism issue.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/07/female-journalists-women-trolled-feminism-sexism_n_5946346.html
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Women journalists have been dealing with this awful crap for a while, unfortunately. Trump is definitely making it even worse.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Women journalists have had to deal with rape and murder threats from online trolls for a while now. This is not a new phenomenon. This has been gone on before Trump and will continue after he is gone.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)No derailment. Nope.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He has been abusive towards her since day one, it seems.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)I think she has a valid point.
G_j
(40,367 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)You can say it was Gamergate, but Gamergate is a product of the Alt Right, which was a product of extreme conservatism and alpha male culture. We can't stop what happened but we can work toward fixing it.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)He is the embodiment of all that nastiness and hate.
calimary
(81,320 posts)His shitty behavior validated by his win in the last election shows his fans that behavior is okay. Hes suffered no consequences for it. So its deemed okay. And theres the role model for his deplorable fans.
mythology
(9,527 posts)If it were just Trump, why are Labour MPs in England getting the threats? Gamergate?
Trump doesn't have mythical powers. He isn't compelling these idiots to do something they weren't already predisposed to doing. Pretending it's all Trump means you aren't getting to the root of the problem. Plus it pushes the responsibility from the people making the threats. As Nuremberg Trials show, claiming you were following orders isn't a defense. These are real people making really stupid choices. They don't deserve to hide behind Trump.
https://mashable.com/2014/12/01/rape-threats-contact-mothers/#_QRn_gdRaPqx
December 2014
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/06/04/lindy-west-reads-aloud-some-of-the-revolting-rape-threats-shes-received
June 2013
https://www.polygon.com/2014/10/11/6963279/brianna-wu-death-threats-police-harassment
October 2014
DFW
(54,405 posts)"He isn't compelling these idiots to do something they weren't already predisposed to doing."
Absolutely, but what Trump has done is to remove any inhibition these people may have felt up to now to act on their base instincts. Society imposes certain norms that serve as a brake on people that would otherwise all rush out to the nearest gun shop and spray the nearest crowd with bullets. Trump is slowly breaking down those norms, and he will declare his shock and offer thoughts and prayers, along with the rest of the Republicans, when the first politically motivated massacres have passed into our bored, disinterested history.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)So it was very upsetting to hear how she's being threatening like that. What are these networks doing to protect these people. I know they have to do their jobs, but to do it for what, an a**hole who lies with every breath he takes. He's not worth losing a life. Sanity must soon prevail before it becomes too late
Ohh, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs security protection because a comedian poked fun at her lying! Poor Katy...she is the one that needs the security protection!!
meadowlander
(4,397 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)Progressive dog
(6,905 posts)LOL
HipChick
(25,485 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Trump is MAD (as in increasingly insane). How long are the PTB going to ignore this, (aside from grumbling and bitching), and take some ACTION. No ordinary person with any public forum would be allowed to continue in this way. No responsible person talks and acts this way. A manager of a local Walmart would have been out the door long since. This whole situation is NOT NORMAL!
Initech
(100,080 posts)Sure, we're not at the point where he's peeing into mason jars and storing them in a closet but he's growing increasingly more insane by the day. Just a matter of time.
DFW
(54,405 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 4, 2018, 08:51 AM - Edit history (1)
Referring to SHS in case that wasn't clear!
onecent
(6,096 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)"Journalist Megyn Kelly, who is under armed guard after receiving death threats, has accused Donald Trumps social media director of stirring hatred on the internet.
The Fox News host urged Dan Scavino, a member of the presidential transition teams leadership staff, to stop encouraging hostile and abusive elements online.
.....
She received death threats and obscene phone calls, she continued. When Donald Trump comes after you, it isnt just a tweet oh wow, hes tweeting about her, and I understand hes a fighter, hes a counter-puncher, I get all that but even then he has such power that a single tweet can unleash hell in somebodys life.
Ive been under armed guard for 16 months and my children have been under armed guard and its not an appropriate price to pay for hard-hitting journalism.....(more)
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I don't see how the United States is ever going to recover from this nightmare. About 40% of this country have taken off their masks and revealed how truly disgusting they are. Even when the orange asshole exits the stage, things aren't just going to be able to go back to normal and the majority of the country will not be able to pretend they didn't see the things they saw.
As much as we detest Trump, he didn't create these sickos. They existed before him. All he did was just release them from their cages.
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)He may not willingly exit the stage. He seems to want to be President for life.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Whether it's through death or whatever, he won't always be around. That's what I meant. His sick followers, unfortunately, will long outlive his time in the spotlight.
Age 72. Bad things can happen fast.
The fate of the world may be in the hands of
Cholesterol. ....
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I mean, publish their names and give their addresses if you have them. Broadcast their vile words for everyone to read and hear. Don't protect these assholes. This is a police matter.
Just sayin'
LandOfHopeAndDreams
(872 posts)If they were dumb enough to though, I'm certain she would have forwarded this to proper authorities.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)We all watched him do it. This is not her first threat, I'm sure of it, and it won't be her last.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)His mind is on that level. He has proved that point over and over.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)They only give him what he wants more than anything:attention.
Just dont show them.
They are never anything of substance.
There are never ANY facts or information.
There are showcases for freaks.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Ignore him. That'll really piss him off.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)inform the country about anything positive or remotely regarding the truth since he took (stole) the office. He has done nothing but display twisted, narcissist self-aggrandizement at all these rallies.
The Cretins entire time in office has been one big cluster fuck of incompetent, petty, vengeful pay backs against every and anyone who challenged his own lofty, overblown opinion of his wretched, mediocre worth.
He has played the Media as tools and fools. Theyve looked cowed and weak.
I am dumbfounded that it has taken them this long to revolt. His entire scheme is a whole new ballgame of lies and cons and manipulations. You would think the journalists would have the smarts to refuse to play, but not that you would notice... up until just recently when some have rediscovered their spines.
If something truly important needs to be relayed, it would be without his blustering self-loving jagoff BS
monopolizing the airways.
Resist REFUSE Revolt.
Accent now on the REFUSE.
Take away the attention.
THAT is THE powerful weapon.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)sick fucks.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Don't you realize that when people are economically anxious, they talk about rape and murder? We just need to go into their communities and talk to them an be extra civil, and in no time flat, they will be belting out choruses of kumbaya with us. :
lark
(23,105 posts)Lock Them Up! They are the true criminals, along with their criminal treasonous sociopathic Herr Orange Menace.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Like an adult and a professional.
Meanwhile, SHS's eyes fill with tears and gets Secret Service protection.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)Huckasanders has proven herself to be a sorry excuse for a woman and mother. But the Democratic leadership reacted to her actually very polite expulsion from a restaurant as if she'd had spaghetti and meatballs dumped on her head. And, in the interests of this faux-civility, they won't call out Trump for egging on his foul mouthed, soulless, cowardly followers to ever greater depths of depravity. Or did I miss where Chuck and Nancy went public and condemned as despicable the threats of violence perpetrated by Trump's followers when they occur and are reported, as here?
oasis
(49,389 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)blood on his hands as his systematic autocratic dividing quest continues. I suspect it wont be for the first time.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)We cannot succumb to such tactics
If you allow them to triumph with such strategy, you'll only get more of it.
Permanut
(5,610 posts)as do others who stand up to Mango Mussolini. They are national treasures.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)maybe wasn't such a good thing after all. I mean sure it helps your network's ratings and the stockholders love it, but now that they've actually started shooting at journalists you start to think you maybe should have said something when they were still only attacking people of color and accusing Dems of running child slavery rings out of pizza restaraunts.
Not to slam Ms. Tur or anyone else specifically, it's just the media has become a travesty.