Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumPeter Daou was a forced child soldier in Lebanon.
The levels that some have stooped to in order to attack him because he's a Clinton supporter are stunningly hateful. Here's his answer to those creeps:
MAR 22 2016
Over the course of the past year, I have been subjected to some of the most aggressive trolling and personal attacks of my 15 year political career. Virtually all of it stems from my advocacy for Hillary Clinton.
In recent months, those vicious attacks on my character have taken a very dark turn.
And I intend to deal with it through legal means.
First, some background: My mother is American, my father was Lebanese. I grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and as the son of a Christian father, I was required to undergo military training by the Lebanese Forces. The mandatory training began when I was in high school and lasted for three years. It took place after school hours and during the summer. My schoolmates were also conscripted.
Even though I am a U.S. citizen by birth, I was forbidden from leaving Lebanon without written permission from the military. My father ultimately secured a waiver and I moved to my mothers home city of New York. Ive only been back to Beirut a handful of times since. The last visit was in the early nineties. I still find the memories traumatic.
As a child, I survived some of the most brutal urban warfare of the 20th century. I witnessed terrible things, bodies torn to shreds, car-bombed buildings, jets falling out of the sky. I lost friends and relatives. I spent countless nights in dank, candle-lit bunkers with missiles raining down from the sky.
I was a few hundred yards away from the American embassy when a car bomb demolished it and I saw blood dripping down its shattered facade. I had many close brushes with death, as did my family.
http://peterdaou.com/2016/03/why-i-plan-to-pursue-defamation-action/
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Way to bring people to your side
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)I hope he succeeds in his defamation lawsuit.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Apparently for no other reason than that she announced her endorsement of Hillary.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1107&pid=79742
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)they are in the minority - are every bit as frightening as Trump supporters are.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)that if one supports Hillary in any way-shape-or-form, one is a vile and despicable person, an oligarch or someone who lacks the intellectual wherewithal to "get" how great and frigging fantastic Bernie is. That leads to the ad hominem attacks on Hillary supporters.
The only revolutionary thing about the "revolution" is its inability to handle any different point of view from anyone. It reminds me of GW Bush "either your wit us or your wit terrists" (misspelling intentional -- don't respond with it should be "you're"
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)As an anti-war protester (who grew up in a war zone), I battled the 101st Fighting Keyboard Brigade and was labeled a traitor and an America hater. As an adviser to John Kerry, I fought the reprehensible swiftboaters in the online trenches and endured threats to my family from gun-toting, warmongering loudmouths.
In all my years of online advocacy, nothing has matched the unhinged attacks generated by my unabashed support for Hillary Clinton, someone I admire tremendously and for whom Ive worked as an adviser. For the first time in my political career, I have a sense of what it must be like to be a feminist on the front lines of politics, where each day brings a new wave of venom from predominantly young men. That so many of these verbal assaults come from the left is deeply troubling.
From: Progressive Brothers: You Dont Have to Hate Hillary to Love Bernie (and Dont Drag Elizabeth Warren Into It)
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)seaglass
(8,173 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)he still gives it a glance?
Considering the nature of his posts, I always thought he wouldn't mind them used here!
ismnotwasm
(42,020 posts)I'm past words anymore.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)for Hillary supporters. I follow him on twitter and each day I learn something from him.
katmille
(213 posts)Blue Nation Review is right under DU(Hillary Group) in my "most frequently visited" sites. So sad that such vile things have been said, and for what? Just because he supports Hillary. I read what some of you say about supporting Bernie if is the nominee, but unless he starts disowning some of those vitriolic yahoos, I will vote for all down-ticket Dems but it will be hard to vote for BS.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)But I am glad this campaign will never come to writing in her name. She will be our Dem nominee.
Bernie can go wherever he wants. Won't be missing him at all, nor his band of online --------s.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)The world through his eyes is far more educated & appreciative than the bernie kids sending money so they can have free stuff.
I read his site every day.
Thank you Mr Daou.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)I've read a few of his things about the election. He's a good writer. What he has been subjected to is disgusting.
Peter,
If you still read DU, I am deeply saddened by the way you've been treated.
It's bad enough to see such despicable behavior on the right, but when I see it on the left too, it breaks my heart.
Thank you for speaking out, and standing up against those who distort the truth.
Hopefully this will be over soon.
L
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Disgusting