David French: The Price I've Paid for Opposing Donald Trump

[Bunny Watson]

Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”

I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement



Further down, there's a link to Mickey White's story. The things people have done in Trump's name are repulsive.

[HonestJohn]

Yep.

That's the Trump movement all right.

And the GOP more than tolerates it.  They fundraise and endorse it!

[HonestJohn]

I knew it was bad and I'm still shocked by the details.

I'm not.  I've been posting about this for this entire election cycle.

People have been turning a blind eye... or, in the case of the Trump supporters, endorsing it.

Heck, @Paladin left because she(?) couldn't post from white supremacist sites anymore.  The rest are now using fake/propaganda sites to post the same bull... all the while trying to say that reputable news sites are actually full of lies. @aligncare tries to get the information dismissed as just "social justice warrior" cr@p.

The mask was taken off a year ago. 

I'll not forget it.

[musiclady]

@musiclady   Check this out.   I've read some of it before, but here is a great big ol' list of how they treat dissent.

Wow.  I'm with you @RAT Patrol....... I knew this stuff was out there, but I had NO idea how vicious and vile it was, and aimed at innocent women and children.

This is so dangerous.  This is so sick.

Every campaign attracts its share of fools, cranks, and crazies. But Trump’s candidacy has weaponized them

This gets to the root of it, I think.  There are always White Supremacists out there, glomming on to a Republican's campaign, but they have always been rebuffed before.

Not so now, and so the cancer is growing and becoming more empowered.

We had all better be aware of the threat of these dangerous people.

[HonestJohn]

Wow.  I'm with you @RAT Patrol....... I knew this stuff was out there, but I had NO idea how vicious and vile it was, and aimed at innocent women and children.

This is so dangerous.  This is so sick.

This gets to the root of it, I think.  There are always White Supremacists out there, glomming on to a Republican's campaign, but they have always been rebuffed before.

Not so now, and so the cancer is growing and becoming more empowered.

We had all better be aware of the threat of these dangerous people.

They have guns and aren't going to accept the results of the election unless Trump wins.

Think about that for a minute.

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I'm going to say that there will be blood spilled on election day and the days after.

And it will be fault of the Republican candidate and the Republicans that voted for him.

The American people will see that and remember it come the future.

[sinkspur]

Stuff like this is why Trump must be defeated, decisively humiliated.  The only downside to that is that it would likely flip the Senate and drain seats for the GOP House. 

As to the alt-right, most of them are gutless cowards, hiding behind keyboards.   They'll crawl back under the rocks after Trump loses.

[HonestJohn]

Stuff like this is why Trump must be defeated, decisively humiliated.  The only downside to that is that it would likely flip the Senate and drain seats for the GOP House. 

As to the alt-right, most of them are gutless cowards, hiding behind keyboards.   They'll crawl back under the rocks after Trump loses.

Most, but not all.

If just 1 in 100 becomes violent... that's 140,000 extremists with guns shooting in America.  (14 million Trump supporters who voted in the GOP primary as the base of his support)

Heck, even if it's 1 in 1000... that's still 14,000.

We have our own terror organization in the making with these guys.

This could be the tip of the iceberg:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=229772.0

[sinkspur]

They have guns and aren't going to accept the results of the election unless Trump wins.

Think about that for a minute.

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I'm going to say that there will be blood spilled on election day and the days after.

And it will be fault of the Republican candidate and the Republicans that voted for him.

The American people will see that and remember it come the future.

I really don't think so.  Most of these people are losers in every other aspect of their lives, so now they can add politics to that list.

Who are they gonna shoot?  They're all mouth, too cowardly to risk somebody shooting back.

[HonestJohn]

I really don't think so.  Most of these people are losers in every other aspect of their lives, so now they can add politics to that list.

Who are they gonna shoot?  They're all mouth, too cowardly to risk somebody shooting back.

That's the same thing normal Muslims say in the middle east.  That the terrorists are losers.

It doesn't take much to buy a gun and pull the trigger.  Do that at recess in an elementary school (in a heavily minority area) and scream, "Elections RIGGED!" and you've got instant national/international press.  And total disruption for the lives of anyone with elementary school children.

It'd be *very* easy to do... and these guys have enough hate to try.  Dylann Roof showed us that.

[musiclady]

I really don't think so.  Most of these people are losers in every other aspect of their lives, so now they can add politics to that list.

Who are they gonna shoot?  They're all mouth, too cowardly to risk somebody shooting back.

I'm with John.  If only a fraction are as dangerous as their online threats, it's too many.

These people are sick!

[mystery-ak]

 The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump
Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
By David French — October 21, 2016

I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”

I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.

When we both publicized some of the racist attacks — I in National Review and Nancy in the Washington Post — things took a far more ominous turn. Late the next evening — while Nancy was, fortunately, offline attending a veterans’ charity event in D.C. — the darker quarters of the alt-right found her Patheos blog. Several different accounts began posting images and GIFs of extreme violence in her comments section.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/441319/print

[Longmire]

Maybe French should've sat down and compared notes with Trump before writing about his 'ordeal'. 

[Silver Pines]

Wow. 

The sad thing is, having spent time on twitter during this election, French's experience doesn't surprise me.  I've seen plenty of that type of thing from Trump supporters.

I have a lot of reasons I won't support Trump, and this is one of them.  I won't ally myself with such people. 

[Silver Pines]

Jonah Goldberg ‏@JonahNRO  18h18 hours ago
So far 3 types of criticism of @DavidAFrench piece 1). Liar! 2) Who cares? just tweets of death threats & gassing his kid 3) HE DESERVES IT!

[Silver Pines]

John Podhoretz ‏@jpodhoretz  15h15 hours ago
The @DavidAFrench essay makes the important point that the rock Trump turned over had more than just anti-Semites under it.

[Oceander]

Maybe French should've sat down and compared notes with Trump before writing about his 'ordeal'. 

Are you kidding me?  You really are delusional.

[Doug Loss]

Maybe French should've sat down and compared notes with Trump before writing about his 'ordeal'. 

So you're saying that not doing so excuses all the disgusting vitriol directed at him and his family?  That's nonsense, and you have to know it.

[Jazzhead]

Wow. 

I have a lot of reasons I won't support Trump, and this is one of them.  I won't ally myself with such people.

I agree.  Trump needs to be (politically) destroyed, because (some of) his supporters are the worst of the worst.   

[r9etb]

Maybe French should've sat down and compared notes with Trump before writing about his 'ordeal'. 

Are you actually defending the thugs who are threatening French and his family?

[Silver Pines]

I agree.  Trump needs to be (politically) destroyed, because (some of) his supporters are the worst of the worst.

Agreed.  Thanks to their foolish choice, Clinton was always going to win, anyway.  Trump might as well be thoroughly crushed.

[HonestJohn]

Posted already here:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,230834.0.html

Can we merge these?

[Machiavelli]

David French
National Review
October 21, 2016

Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”

I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.

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[Luis Gonzalez]

Disgusting.

[Rivergirl]

I read this last night.  After I cried, I started emailing the article to people I know who think Trump is the answer.
His cabal is terrifying and he is beholden to them.

[musiclady]

Are you actually defending the thugs who are threatening French and his family?

Yes.  He is.