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"The New York Times" has reported that there are at least three new threads on the Internet that are a direct result of maladroit and/or pernicious and harmful statements made by Donald Trump in the past three days.
One is on sexual assaults on women; one is on Muslims; one is on his looming presence.
"One prominent Twitter thread, jump-started by Kelly Oxford, a Canadian novelist and screenwriter on Friday, began on Friday, shortly after The Washington Post scooped NBC and reported on the recording of Mr. Trump making vulgar comments about women, including a remark about grabbing a woman’s genitals.
Many social media users and television pundits noted that his bragging amounted to a description of sexual assault. Ms. Oxford shared her own story of being molested when she was 12 years old and asked women to 'tweet me your first assaults.'
The hashtag took off, with thousands of women responding: Ms. Oxford said on Twitter the next day that she had been receiving stories for 14 hours straight, at a minimum of 50 per minute.
'Harrowing,' she wrote. 'Do not ignore.'
On Sunday, the actress Amber Tamblyn posted her own story on Instagram, telling of an ex-boyfriend from an'emotionally and physically abusive relationship' who had sexually assaulted her. She wrote that while they were at a nightclub, the man grabbed her by her genitals, 'lifted me up off the floor, literally, and carried me, like something he owned, like a piece of trash, out of the club.'
'His fingers were practically inside of me, his other hand wrapped tightly around my hair,” she wrote. “I screamed and kicked and cried.'
These tales of assault unfurled even as Mr. Trump promoted a Breitbart story on Sunday in which Juanita Broaddrick renewed her longstanding allegations of rape against former president Bill Clinton. Shortly before the debate, Mr. Trump also held a news conference with three women who said they had been attacked by Mr. Clinton.
The internet backlash to Mr. Trump’s leaked statements about women came from within both parties. Amanda Owens, 25, the founder of a conservative organization called Future Female Leaders, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that the recording had caused her to speak out against Mr. Trump for the first time.
'The leaked audio of Donald Trump that got released yesterday is disgusting and vile,' she wrote, adding, 'It is indefensible.' She said that she would be looking to vote for an alternative candidate.
Another prominent thread began after Mr. Trump answered a debate question about Islamophobia from an audience member, Gorbah Hamed, by saying: 'We have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on. When they see hatred going on they have to report it.'
The comment gave rise to a hashtag, #MuslimsReportStuff, and mocking reports from social media users, including the banal — 'I did laundry this morning but still haven’t put it away,' wrote Sana M."
Article...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/us/politics/from-locker-room-talk-to-muslims-report-stuff-the-internet-strikes-back.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
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One is on sexual assaults on women; one is on Muslims; one is on his looming presence.
"One prominent Twitter thread, jump-started by Kelly Oxford, a Canadian novelist and screenwriter on Friday, began on Friday, shortly after The Washington Post scooped NBC and reported on the recording of Mr. Trump making vulgar comments about women, including a remark about grabbing a woman’s genitals.
Many social media users and television pundits noted that his bragging amounted to a description of sexual assault. Ms. Oxford shared her own story of being molested when she was 12 years old and asked women to 'tweet me your first assaults.'
The hashtag took off, with thousands of women responding: Ms. Oxford said on Twitter the next day that she had been receiving stories for 14 hours straight, at a minimum of 50 per minute.
'Harrowing,' she wrote. 'Do not ignore.'
On Sunday, the actress Amber Tamblyn posted her own story on Instagram, telling of an ex-boyfriend from an'emotionally and physically abusive relationship' who had sexually assaulted her. She wrote that while they were at a nightclub, the man grabbed her by her genitals, 'lifted me up off the floor, literally, and carried me, like something he owned, like a piece of trash, out of the club.'
'His fingers were practically inside of me, his other hand wrapped tightly around my hair,” she wrote. “I screamed and kicked and cried.'
These tales of assault unfurled even as Mr. Trump promoted a Breitbart story on Sunday in which Juanita Broaddrick renewed her longstanding allegations of rape against former president Bill Clinton. Shortly before the debate, Mr. Trump also held a news conference with three women who said they had been attacked by Mr. Clinton.
The internet backlash to Mr. Trump’s leaked statements about women came from within both parties. Amanda Owens, 25, the founder of a conservative organization called Future Female Leaders, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that the recording had caused her to speak out against Mr. Trump for the first time.
'The leaked audio of Donald Trump that got released yesterday is disgusting and vile,' she wrote, adding, 'It is indefensible.' She said that she would be looking to vote for an alternative candidate.
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Another prominent thread began after Mr. Trump answered a debate question about Islamophobia from an audience member, Gorbah Hamed, by saying: 'We have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on. When they see hatred going on they have to report it.'
The comment gave rise to a hashtag, #MuslimsReportStuff, and mocking reports from social media users, including the banal — 'I did laundry this morning but still haven’t put it away,' wrote Sana M."
Article...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/us/politics/from-locker-room-talk-to-muslims-report-stuff-the-internet-strikes-back.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
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