tenaciouscreeper:

jewish-privilege:

My reporting on the Stars of David meme quickly went viral. At this moment it’s been shared more than 14,000 times by the likes of CNN’s own Jake Tapper and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who’s had his own run-ins with the president as of late. In the past, when a post or story of mine has garnered that much attention, I’ve always dealt with the inevitable criticism and harassment that follows. Sure enough, it wasn’t far behind.

Before the hour was up, I was receiving messages from the usual customers: anonymous accounts with Pepe avatars and bios declaring themselves “ethnonationalists” and “white identitarians.” Despite my Southern Baptist upbringing, they assumed I was Jewish because I’d uncovered anti-Semitism, and so the threats and memes predictably featured pictures of Adolf Hitler, scenes from the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic garbage. I was peppered with the usual slurs and insults before a user calling his or herself “Pepe’s Imam” told me: “There’s a civil war coming, leftist. Memes are the least of your problems.”

…I learned last year the best strategy is to be open about this kind of stuff and expose it however possible. On my Twitter feed I prepared screenshots of the offending rhetoric while critics accused me of lying. The left is the violent group, they told me while linking to stories about clashes with antifascist groups. In the same thread, as they claimed I’d made the whole thing up, the anti-Semitic materials and threats were piling up.

Things didn’t slow down.

The Daily Stormer, the most popular Neo-Nazi publication in America, set its sights on me and declared my agenda as “Jewish.”

For everyone who has replied to my original post about the CNN Stars of David meme and the correlation between antisemitism and hatred of “the media” with some version of “well CNN is terrible and President Trump has a Jewish daughter and Jews in his administration so he can’t possibly be an antisemite” as though my post and point was solely about CNN and President Trump (spoiler alert, those were illustrations of a greater issue and you should learn to read a full post instead of cherry picking discrete parts to, unsuccessfully, disprove the entire post). Read Jared Yates Sexton’s full piece at Politico.

I’d like to add that HanAssholeSolo has a history of doxxing women, too. He’s also part of a group that’s been doxxing anyone who works for CNN. This is what all the Pepe types do, they doxx anyone they don’t like to police their speech and silence them. CNN is very, very likely aware of this, too, which is how we know who HanAssholeSolo is and what kind of person he is in the first place.

I Found HanAssholeSolo’s anti-Semitic Posts. Then, the Death Threats Started. – POLITICO Magazine