Newsweek - "HOW DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS"
Just a reminder that irrespective of the recent controversies, and perhaps because of them, Trump continues to have a rabid supporters who are behind him.
http://www.newsweek.com/epileptogenic-pepe-video-507417?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=incontent&utm_medium=related3
Shortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trumps business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it.
Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. Its better controlled now than it has been during other parts of my life, but not completelymy neurologist tells me I have intractable epilepsy, meaning treatment will never bring the condition fully under control. I know how peopleparticularly childrenwith seizures suffer when uninformed idiots suggest they should impose limits of their lives or quell their aspirations. So when Fox News blowhard and college dropout Sean Hannity practically drooled in delight this election season as he falsely proclaimed that Hillary Clinton suffered from seizures based on her acting goofy in a short video clip, it infuriated me. I knew how his message would be heardpeople with seizures look ridiculous, they should be afraid of others laughing at them, they should listen to the voices telling them they cant do what they want (even be president). And so I raged at Hannity in the pages of Newsweek, on cable television news shows and on Twitter.
A couple of weeks later, after my article about how Trumps business interests would create a conflict of unprecedented proportions, I received a tweet from someone with the twitter handle Mike's Deplorable AF. Like many Trump supporters, he has chosen to identify himself as deplorable to mock the label once used by Clinton to describe the racists, neo-Nazis, homophobes and like who have crawled out of the sewer to cheer for the Republican nominee. Mike, however, is indeed deplorable.
In his tweet, which has since been deleted, Mike made mention of my seizures and included a small video. It contained images of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has been identified by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol. I was carrying my iPad, looking at the still image on the video and, without thinking, touched the PLAY button. The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. Its whats called epileptogenicsomething that triggers seizures. Fortunately, since I was standing, I simply dropped my iPad to the ground the second I realized what Mike had done. It landed face down on the bathroom floor.