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Yesterday I broke the news that the guy who made Trump's CNN gif also created an antisemitic meme and was obviously racist. 2/ In the wake of that, I received numerous threats. I was told people wanted to shoot, strangle me, hang me, throw me out of a helicopter 3/ Some assumed I was Jewish because I spoke out against antisemitism, others said I was a race-traitor. Got it on both sides. 4/ Now articles are showing up on Neo-Nazi websites, there are videos spliced with Goebbels telling me not to test his patience 5/ That one also has footage from Natural Born Killers of a journalist being executed by shotgun. 6/ On forums, under my tweets, there's a list of excerpts from newspaper articles about journalists being slaughter, the details gory. 7/ Meanwhile, people are claiming I'm making up the threats and then immediately threatening me. In the same message. 8/ Over on Facebook I'm getting messages from strangers about "goyim" and talking about what happened to Jews in the 40's. 9/ This environment is the creation of the man in the White House. There are valid criticisms of the media, many on point, this isn't that 10/ When you start calling a group of people enemies of the country, this is what happens. When you call them scum, this happens. 11/ This is what happens when you have Alex Jones calling mainstream media pedophiles and Satan worshippers, and threatening to crush them. 12/ This environment we have right now is volatile. Some of these threats are empty, but people who are unwell consume this stuff. 13/ Even as I'm typing this I'm getting antisemitic memes and messages. It's happening in realtime. 14/ And everyone keeps bringing up the shooting in Virginia. In a way, they're right. That's what happens in this environment. 15/ This shouldn't be a country where these violent instincts are cultivated and encouraged. We're at a real tipping point right now. 16/ But make no mistake, there's something growing in this country, and it is very, very ugly. 17/17 Jared Yates Sexton Verified account @JYSexton Writer, Hoosier, Asst Prof of CW at GA Southern, work in @nytimes , @newrepublic ,
