The reality of Trump’s alt-right trolls: They’ll put your 7-year-old’s face on a gas chamber

[highplainsdem]

Source: Vox

In a disturbingly raw piece for National Review last week, French discussed the torrent of abuse unleashed on his family by alt-right fanatics and Trump supporters. The harassment began in 2015 when French was publicly critical of Trump, but it escalated when his name was leaked as a possible third-party candidate.

“I saw images of my daughter’s face (an Ethiopian girl French adopted) in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her,” French writes. “I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a ‘niglet’ and a ‘dindu.’”

-snipping paragraphs explaining that Vox interviewed French yesterday, for the new material below-

David French: Then round two happened when I talked to Bill Kristol about the possibility of mounting an admittedly long-shot independent run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And the trolls came in force once again with all the same sorts of images. They launched a series of taunts at me that they were having sex with my wife, which was particularly hurtful and harmful because my wife is a survivor of sex abuse.

And then it got worse as things moved from Twitter to email. We had a very deeply disturbing email death threat, and then just a couple of weeks ago my wife was talking on the telephone with her father and a person broke into the call. It sounds crazy, but it happened. A man started screaming profanities at her and my elderly father-in-law about Donald Trump. We immediately contacted law enforcement, and they’re trying to figure out what happened.

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Read more: http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/27/13428612/donald-trump-david-french-alt-right-trolls-republican-party

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Much more that's new from French at the link. Not just more details about what these dangerous trolls have been doing, but French's very thoughtful commentary on the alt-right and Trump's demagoguery.

[sakabatou]

1. Holy shit

What a freak show the right is.

[Roland99]

2. Asshats and uber nationalists and bigots, etc. will always exist. HOWEVER,

someone like Trump giving voice to them on a national, nay, global level is what makes them truly and horribly dangerous!

[Brickbat]

3. No one should have to experience this.

[msanthrope]

4. No....not even Sarah and Bristol Palin's blogs ghostwriter. nt

[sheshe2]

5. JHC!

They are completely insane.

[Ken Burch]

6. Should I even ask what "dindu" means? n/t.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I don't know, but I think we can assume it deeply derogatory or offensive

The rest of what they threw at him and his family is awful.

[TacoD]

9. Here you go:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dindu-nuffin

[The Polack MSgt]

10. Short for "He Dindu Nuffin"

A Daily Stormer tagline usually attached to a vid of violent black men

[retrowire]

7. and they wave at me everyday from a bridge on my going home commute

Holding signs that read: "I'm not a Dem, I'm not a Republican, I'm an American. TRUMP 2016"

[Stuart G]

11. k and r..nt

[The Polack MSgt]

12. Would it be ungenerous of me to ask why he

Never gave a shit when this abuse was heaped on liberal reporters or really any woman with a social media presence?

He had a platform in the "conservative media" for years before this third party run.

[greenman3610]

13. I'm thinking the same thing

You built this, you bastard

[lark]

14. Orange Fuhrer's brown shirts strike again.

He will make Hitler look good if America is so fucked that he becomes our president. I don't think that will happen absent total chaos and riots, but him and these assholes that follow him are still very scary.

[Rex]

15. The alt-right trolls feel empowered through their boss Troll Trump.

Never seen anything like it, I read they have taken over twitter.

[MADem]

16. Gee, "Deplorable" seems mild as a descriptor. nt

[progressoid]

19. Exactly. n/t

[riversedge]

17. leaves me speechless sometimes