The evidence is mounting: homophobes, racists and anti-semites, apparently emboldened by the election of Donald Trump — whose victory this week was attributed to the “silent majority” — are silent no more.
Shaun King, the senior justice writer at the New York Daily News, has been sharing that evidence, and people have been sharing more with him. Another collection of hate messages on Twitter has been shared tens of thousands of times.
This was left on a car windshield in North Carolina. The vehicle’s owner is gay.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796542537255239681
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It”s not just LGBTQ folks being targeted:
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796813741459443712
And then there was this from Florida:
This from my friend Nichole… pic.twitter.com/ydMKEcY60z
— Laura Keeney (@LauraKeeney) November 10, 2016
Not everyone is getting away with such horrid behavior:
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/797146812427763712
This is from Connecticut:
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796822704284454914
And even the deaf are not immune from the hatred now brazenly displayed:
"This is white America now. Take your retarded self and go somewhere else now," towards American Sign Language (ASL) user#TheTrumpEffect 😔 pic.twitter.com/HAWNzPfTDo
— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) November 11, 2016
Most of the hate seems directed at members of minority races:
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/797160623276720128
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796799336793407488
Election Day fell on the anniversary of Kristallnacht — when Nazis raided Jewish neighborhoods in 1939 — so perhaps it’s not surprising to find Jews are still targets of hate:
This happened to me this morning after I responded to Nazi propaganda in Philly. This is Trumps vision of making america great again #ACLU pic.twitter.com/QCryNBPqQd
— Nadine van der Velde (@nadinevdVelde) November 10, 2016
Find much more on Shaun King’s Twitter feed, here.