Can you imagine a man filing a police report over this? Do people on the left get more hate than people on the right? Which group is more likely to file a police report over these threats? When was the last time a journalist in America was murdered for doing his job?
The MSM no longer control the narrative and they don’t like it. They don’t like getting blowback, but all of our actions have consequences, and we can’t always hide from them.
So why is there such hatred as revealed in the following story? Because different groups have different interests and when those you love are threatened, you tend to fight back.
If you can’t handle the heat your story generates, you might want to write less-controversial stories or perhaps switch careers to selling insurance?
Right-wing speakers on college campuses routinely need bodyguards but left-wing speakers rarely do. Why is that? Because the Left controls universities and hates the Right. So too people on the Right hate the Left.
Julia Ioffe has filed a report with the D.C. police department over the anti-Semitic threats that she received — many from apparent Trump supporters — after writing a penetrating profile of Melania Trump in GQ.
The alleged offense is listed as “threat to kidnap or injure a person,” as outlined under the Code of the District of Columbia 22-1810. Said threats came through phone calls and email, notes the report. And the “public narrative” section reads as follows: “C-1 states that an unknown person sent her a caricature of a person being shot in the back of the head by another, among other harassing calls and disturbing emails depicting violent scenarios.”
The larger “public narrative” here is almost a year old. Since last June, Donald Trump has run a presidential campaign on bigotry, racism, sexism and frat-house insults. The show has attracted the interest and endorsement — surprise! — of white nationalist groups and figures such as David Duke, a former KKK official. At pretty much the same time, Trump has made a vocation of hammering media coverage of his candidacy, pointing with disdain at offending camera operators at his rally, calling the profession disgusting and dishonest and on and on.
These two manifestations of Trumpism intersected in Ioffe’s very own world. Her Melania Trump piece, published in late April, ventured back to the former model’s native Slovenia. It examined the life of her father, Victor Knavs, and it discovered that Melania Trump had a half-brother — a situation that Melania Trump at first denied and later said, “I’ve known about this for years.”
…Hate site the Daily Stormer responded with a story titled, “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” The attacks against Ioffe then started flowing over social media, email and phone. The Erik Wemple Blog cited some examples of the vileness in this post. Several of the blasts came from people who showed signs that they supported Trump. “The Trumps have a record of kind of whistling their followers into action,” the 33-year-old Ioffe told the Erik Wemple Blog. A quarter-century ago, Ioffe and her family fled anti-Semitism in Russia and moved to the United States. She has worked at the New Republic and written for the New York Times Magazine; she recently joined Politico Magazine as a contributing writer…
Thanks to Ioffe’s pursuit of a criminal case, we may eventually know more about the folks who threatened her. She has also enlisted the Anti-Defamation League in her quest for justice. “I can confirm that we are working with her, and we are doing some research into the individuals involved, but we do not have much else to say at this point,” said Todd Gutnick, vice president, communications, for the organization.
Ioffe herself says the police have launched their investigation and the harassment continues. She doesn’t want to say anything more. Who can blame her?
However things shake out from here, the episode reflects Trump’s unique way of making America great: A fair and thorough story on a potential first lady turns into grist for hate-driven threats. It’s quaint to think back before American started its re-transformation to greatness, when such a story would prompt merely some blowback from PR flacks and perhaps a strongly worded letter from a lawyer. Keep America crappy.
