My god, you are a complete cretin... This was an incident from September 2016, before the election- You must have seen the countless episodes of violence and hate speech from Trump supporters reveling in their newfound permission to hurl ethnic slurs at their fellow Americans... AND THAT WAS AFTER HE WON!
Before that we had 8 fucking years of slander and conspiracy theories directed at the president and his supporters, and anyone opposed to Trump...
I vocally support Hillary Clinton online and for 18 months I’ve been trolled constantly for it. In the moment that I saw him standing there, my passion for this election and all that I've endured as result of it overtook me. I'd never seen the man before, yet he was the living embodiment of every Trump troll who had ever tweeted me an insult. I'd had it with continuously suppressing my voice just because a man might not like it. My body reacted before my brain did as I brought my car almost to a complete stop. I honked the horn to get his attention, gave him the finger, and drove away.
Never did I imagine it would ever be more than just that one small moment, that safe and protected act of protest. I was wrong.
He got into his vehicle, hit the gas, and chased me down the street, riding my bumper by mere inches. I flagged down a police officer to help me and recorded the whole incident on my phone.
Fast forward a week: Trump-supporting internet trolls have sent me death threats, looked me up to call me slurs like “kike,” threatened to kill or gang-bang me, suggested calling bomb threats in to my son’s school, and put photos of my children in memes promoting incest. Someone created a Twitter parody account for me and posted my home address, a photo of my house, and the phone number for my landline. They've sent Chinese food and pizzas to my home, signed me up for magazine subscriptions, filled out personality tests in my name for the Church of Scientology. They are trying to ruin my life any way they can.
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.
Masthead: Earth photographed from the International Space Station (NASA);
the spire in the Eagle Nebula (NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA).