The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump. Trump’s alt-right trolls. MUST READ

[grossproffit]

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.

Click on a post and scroll down and you’ll see pictures of black men shooting other black men, close-up images of suicides, GIFs of grisly executions — the kinds of psyche-scarring things that one can’t “unsee.” Had I not deployed to Iraq and witnessed death up close, the images would have shocked me. I quickly got on the phone with Nancy, told her not to look at her website, and got busy deleting comments and blocking IP addresses, but in the meantime a few friends and neighbors had seen the posts.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement

[manicraven]

1. Deplorables was too nice of a word for these people!

Trump has inspired them, too, which is disgusting, and I worry that they won't slither back from where they came following this election.

[Martin Eden]

2. Such bravery by the alt-right "patriots" !

Posting vile hatred & graphic violence on the internet, and threatening mothers and children.
Are they also members of the Family Values crowd?

[Willie Pep]

4. It is interesting that the "alt-right" is mostly an online movement.

From what I have read even in the few instances where these fools gather in real life they do so under fake names because they don't want to be outed to family, friends, neighbors and employers.

The sad thing is even if Trump loses I don't see these guys going anywhere. If anything I expect them to get even more ambitious when their hero loses (which they will blame on a "rigged" election).

[BSdetect]

3. Despicables are so not brave

Cowards with plenty of guns, no doubt. Just won't actually be deployed overseas.

[Cicada]

5. Only a few deplorables are this horrible

Many deplorables are merely ignorant, stupidly thinking most Muslims support extremist methods, stupidly thinking undocumented workers are prone to crime, stupidly thinking Jews cheat money from others. There views are deplorable, ignorant, harmful, wrong. But we should not repeat the error of their ways by tagging all of them as vile and cruel as those who attacked Mr. French.

[BobbyDrake]

6. Maybe this makes me a bad liberal, but I feel no sympathy. This is the vote they courted.

This is the vote that conservatives and their party chose to make the centerpiece of their coalition. This is the reaping of 30 years of racist sowing, using every dog whistle and piece of innuendo possible to broadcast the message: "The GOP is for white people and only the GOP can protect you from those non-white Others."

Poor David French is tired of this behavior after just one year? Nowhere does he concede, "Hey, this must be what life is like for some liberals who have stood up to the same people before." Nowhere does he own his role in working for a magazine that has peddled enough of the GOP's rhetoric to disqualify itself from claiming innocence about it.

When you lie with dogs, David, don't be surprised when you end up with fleas.

[DemocraticWing]

9. French peddled bigoted crap for years.

I'm sad that he's being treated in a way that nobody should, but like you I would really hope this serves as a wake up call to the right wing in this country about the company they keep.

[tblue37]

13. Mostly I feel concern for his little daughter. nt

[lapfog_1]

8. like crawling through a sewer

one of the alt-right commenters to the NR article...

"The destruction of the Republican Party may likely be the most admirable accomplishment of the last half-century. An Ashkenazi-mentored syndicate militating for multicultural globalism, the monstrosity ought have been euthanized decades ago."

Everything is the fault of the global Jewish cabal.

[MicaelS]

15. Many of the comments

Are truly disgusting. People using their real names and saying vile shit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Cyber-bullying is way out of hand.

The OP seems to have gone even further into assault (fear for life and limb, not battery), hate crime, libel, and several other crimes.

[msanthrope]

11. Lie down with dogs....nt

[Jopin Klobe]

12. And this ...

... is from the Reichpublican National Review, for God's sake ..

[red dog 1]

14. K&R