Reporter flooded with 'gory' death threats after revealing neo-Nazi creator of Trump's CNN tweet

[DonViejo]

TRAVIS GETTYS
03 JUL 2017 AT 10:16 ET

The reporter who revealed the “obviously racist” and antisemitic Reddit user who created the animated image of President Donald Trump body-slamming CNN has been deluged with death threats.

Jared Yates Sexton, a journalist who teaches writing and linguistics at Georgia Southern University, reported Sunday that the president had shared an internet meme created by a Reddit user called “HanAssholeSolo.”

That person made frequent racist and threatening posts on Reddit, including one earlier this month identifying Jewish employees of CNN.

Sexton tweeted Monday that he had gotten numerous threats — often accompanied by antisemitic and Nazi themes — since revealing the meme’s creator.

Link to tweet

“Now articles are showing up on Neo-Nazi websites, there are videos spliced with Goebbels telling me not to test his patience,” Taylor tweeted. “That one also has footage from Natural Born Killers of a journalist being executed by shotgun. On forums, under my tweets, there’s a list of excerpts from newspaper articles about journalists being slaughter, the details gory.”

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[Cosmocat]

1. The Republican party sees what is happening, and just keeps pushing harder

This country is an absolute tinderbox ...

[All-In]

10. Haters Gotta Hate

It's who they are.

[spanone]

2. the trump years....history will shake it's head.

[uppityperson]

3. K&R for broader exposure

[Dustlawyer]

19. We need a brave Democrat to stand up and state for the record that Republicans delaying getting rid

of the Orange Shitgibbon will own each and every death inspired by this crazy screwed up POTUS!

[DK504]

4. I know I'm not the most informed in the ways of internet privacy,

but how the hell can people get so much info on pople and post it online? How is this not a form of intimadation and invasion of privacy?

[HipChick]

5. It's called Google...

[Flaleftist]

42. If someone cares about their privacy,

they should be careful about posting information online that could be used to identify them, especially if they are posting hate speech. It's not that hard to remain anonymous online. It's his own fault.

[DBoon]

6. American soldiers gave their lives in WWII to defeat this

Now a major political party embraces Nazis

[nikibatts]

16. Seems like many only wanted it defeated over there.Black soldiers returning home were treated badly.

Little has changed with this bigoted mentality,

[katmondoo]

37. This was going on during the Bush years, more intense now.

They did not care how many young men died for a lying President. If there is a Trump war it will be the same thing. Republicans are despicable people. They will use our military then spit on them.

[yallerdawg]

7. We can judge someone by the company they keep.

The jackass in the White House keeps fringe extremist associations - which demonstrates he is either an idiot or a supportive collaborator.

Take your pick.

[Scarsdale]

22. tRump saw the name

"asshole" and realized here was another patriotic republican voter!! Isn't the "smart kid" Jared Jewish? Guess Agent Orange does not mind insulting his own son-in-law.

[gratuitous]

29. No, just another coincidence in an amazing series of coincidences

Sure, it seems like every Trump supporter is some kind of Nazi, teeth-cracking mad to have missed his first shot at the Third Reich, and slavering at the second chance. But some of them, I assume, are good people. It's just that if one of our fellow citizens is a Nazi, he seems irresistibly drawn to the Trump administration. For some reason.

[yallerdawg]

30. Another coincidence? Everytime - EVERYTIME - he speaks!

[PubliusEnigma]

8. Nazis gonna Nazi. In Trump's America.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Yeah, I figured that. It's only a matter of time.

Who will save us from this violent dictator?

[Alice11111]

28. Wouldnt be ironic if it were Germany?

[Honeycombe8]

33. Sure would. nt

[Astraea]

11. the anonymity of the internet

really brings out the worst in people. Not that they aren't already bad, but the internet gives them a way of expressing their evilness with no repercussions. Most of them don't have the guts to say things like that in public.

[AgadorSparticus]

12. This is what the kkk do. They are a home grown terrorist organization

And they will defend and protect their guy.

[AntiFascist]

13. These are the core supporters of Trump's base...

and their only hope is to save their leader through intimidation.

[Stonepounder]

14. First they came for the reporters, but I didn't speak out because I wasn't a reporter. n/t

[Achilleaze]

15. republicans are disgorging this hate from the KGOP anus

and it is some evil, degenerate shite.

[Nitram]

17. Clearly journalists risk their lives when they report facts rather than fake news.

[Initech]

18. And we're the violent ones. Right.

[MrPurple]

23. Because 30 kids at Berkeley wore black masks and broke some windows

The right wing disinformation machine is on an endless propaganda blitz about the violent "antifa" menace and how liberals are on a destructive rampage. The number of stories they've churned out about this compared to actual incidents is like 100,000:1.

[Initech]

25. And never mind that Mike Cernovich got caught paying protesters to be violent and disruptive.

Like those morons who stormed the Julius Caesar production in New York. They were part of a contest. I'm sure he paid those Antifa assholes at Berkeley too. The question is - who's paying him?

[lpbk2713]

20. The Keyboard Kommandos

They will keep on as long as they can post anonymously
from Mom's computer in the basement.

[gordianot]

21. The American Horror Show in real time in real life.

No need for ghouls, witches, undead, or killer clowns beyond those who inhabit the Executive Branch and the followers who condone their actions.

[MrPurple]

24. If you read the Slate article about the source of this video (user name: HannAssholeSolo)

Trump has held live Q&A sessions with the anti-semitic, racist the_donald subreddit group to which he belongs. Trump has been actively encouraging these people for over a year and just used the video they created yesterday.

[Solly Mack]

26. K&R

[MineralMan]

27. That's the currency the haters are using these days.

Death threats and the like seem to go out to anyone who expresses anything but conservative ideas. There are such threats almost everywhere these days, and most people who are liberal or progressive and who speak out online have received such replies.

They're alarming, to be sure. Fortunately, most of them are spewed by cowards and loudmouths, who have no intention of actually doing anything about their threats. There is the odd exception now and then, but that's very rare. It's the people who don't post their bilious and misspelled threats who are the real concern.

Not too long ago, something I wrote here caused someone at another place to write how he wanted to take me out and beat me to a pulp, and similar nonsense. Within about an hour, I discovered who the person was in real life (it wasn't difficult). He was deathly ill at the time (learned on his Facebook page), and has since died. I was never worried about the person, but was curious, so I did some basic sleuthing.

That wasn't the first time, and probably won't be the last time someone responds to something I've said with a burst of distorted anger and hatred. Oh, well. When it happens, I go looking to see who the person behind the screen name is. Typically, I discover that there's no reason to be concerned about anything happening. Not always, but usually.

[Cha]

31. Of course, he has.. trump fans are Drooling

Idiots like he is.

[Johnny2X2X]

32. Trump is a Neo Nazi

In another other age the fact that our President is retweeting Neo Nazis would be the scandal of the year. Trump is a white supremacist.

[shenmue]

34. Yes

[Alice11111]

39. Appears so, though he doesn't outright admit it, usually. It

can be infered from almost every utterance, even after he's been coached and reminded. It is just buried inside him: it is who he is.

...although Orange Supremist ismore descriptive.

[sarah FAILIN]

35. This guy referred to Trump as God-Emperor

Everyone here is going to remember that. These guys are a threat. Why we don't have people after them, idk.

[Mc Mike]

36. Nazi goons who love the repug Prez

are the biggest internal threat this country faces.

They're cowardly cockroaches, but are a real threat to brave people like Mr. Sexton.

[Alice11111]

40. No one took them too seriously years ago, but now weapons

of war are everywhere. They are out of the closet and proud to be Nazis with the great orange leader. It seems they are multiplying really fast. The vast numbers and their leader legitimize them to themselves and new recruits. Worst of all, they are raising their little children to be like them. Their children must see them as correct because they are winning at everything...they have control and it is snowballing, while they protect their own.

[Mc Mike]

41. I agree somewhat, A1.

They teach their kids to hate, but they're not winning at everything. They're not controlling so many things, which is why il Douche A spends so much time rage-tweeting against the press, intel, law enforcement, the courts, protestors, all political opponents, etc.

If they had their 10%, they wouldn't need to resort to bot-farms to pretend they have large numbers of committed followers.

Their high profile hate crime numbers are up, but those wack jobs were already there. And they go off like time bombs, not able to hold themselves together for the big take-over they're anticipating.

[Alice11111]

43. Certainly the press & the people are our hope.

With Gorsuch, all DT has to do is get SCOTUS to hear his appeal. Gorsuch is only 49 years old.

[Mc Mike]

44. But in the past, both Roberts and Kennedy showed that they felt the

pressure of very active and informed members of the US public, in the ACA constitutionality and Same Sex Marriage decisions.

[Alice11111]

46. Well, it looks like Kennedy is leaving. Wish he would hang on.

He wasn't the best, but much better than the RW
Roberts has had heart at times. Gorsuch is only 49 & another Scalia. Hang in RBG. We need you.

[oberliner]

38. Jewish reporters have pointed out the non-step antisemitism on twitter

It has been constant.

[Alice11111]

47. How is it that DTs daughter, son in law, in laws, grandkids, even lawyers and accounts

are Orthodox Jews, but DTs followers are anti semetic.
I don't get this?

[oberliner]

48. Maybe reddit can host an "Ask an Anti-semite" forum

They would be best to answer such questions themselves.

[cwydro]

45. Journalists being "slaughter"?

Is the entire world becoming illiterate?