'Massive rise' in hate speech on Twitter during presidential election
Source: UsaToday
SAN FRANCISCO On Sunday night, Hadas Gold, a Politico media writer, began receiving threats on Twitter. One image superimposed a yellow star of David on her shirt and a bloody bullet hole in her forehead. Another photoshopped her face on a corpse in a concentration camp oven. The message that came with the photos: "Dont mess with our boy Trump, or you will be first in line for the camp."
Gold, whose grandmother fled Poland with her family weeks before Jews from their neighborhood were deported to concentration camps and whose grandfather lost about half of his extended family in the Holocaust, notified Twitter, which moved quickly to suspend the accounts. Gold says these incidents have become increasingly common "the more we wrote about Trump, and the more we wrote about his rhetoric."
A report this week from The Anti-Defamation League documented the rise in anti-Semitic tweets targeting journalists who cover the Republican presidential candidate. From August 2015 to July 2016, the ADL found 2.6 million tweets with anti-Semitic language. Of those, nearly 20,000 tweets were directed at 50,000 journalists in the U.S., with more than two-thirds of the tweets sent by 1,600 Twitter accounts.
Words that appear frequently in the profiles of these Twitter accounts: Trump, nationalist, conservative, white. "The report is representative of the bigotry and hatred that we are seeing play out on a broader scale," said Oren Segal, director of ADL's Center on Extremism and an author of the report.
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They are lucky I'm not on Twitter LOL
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)rose822
(5 posts)When she was asked the reason for not trusting Hillary, it was Bengazi again and email. Even if Hillary was negligent with Bengazi, Republicans gave George Bush a second term after 9/11 with no hesitation. Bengazi was the result of privitization and nobody is calling it out, not even Democrats. Save the Post Office and Public Schools!!!!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Skittles
(153,208 posts)fucking cowards
IronLionZion
(45,545 posts)What's the worst that could happen?
mdbl
(4,976 posts)Once I asked a bunch of em if they knew anything other than what they heard on mush limpballs, not one of them did.
DemInND
(164 posts)Hate will not prevail. If they really think that Trump will win on Nov. 8th, I think they should receive free CT scans at a local hospital to see what exactly type of rock is in their heads. I guess they've been brain-washed, like the citizens of Germany were with Hitler.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)Have a diagnosable personality disorder along the types of narcissism sociopath or authoritarian. With that many people with that type of personality spectrum do we need to wonder where all these bigoted stupid assholes come from? I just wish we had a way to get rid of them. If we didn't have this spectrum of personalities we wouldn't have a Republican party,or 9/10ths of the people caused unjust,sick ass,crazy,greed based,corporate con based evil hearted bigot driven problems that plague our lives now.