you may remember a couple of weeks ago when writer Nora Loreto offended a lot of folks by commenting on how the Humboldt Broncos tragedy was drawing a great deal of attention while other tragedies in Canada don't.
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but the backlash to her comments wasn't purely 'organic'--specific right/alt-right online communities organized deliberate harassment of her. take a look at this article by David Gray-Donald for a chronology.https://briarpatchmagazine.com/blog/view/canadas-right-wing-rage-machine-vs-nora-loreto …
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I'm not very surprised that /metacanada/, which is practically Canada's /pol/ (the 4chan politics board / alt-right hellhole) was targeting her for harassment. but look who else was doing it--Jason Kenney!
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at the point when Jason Kenney encouraged his very large social media audience to pile on Loreto, it was already public knowledge that she was receiving death threats, rape threats, and extreme harassment. Kenney knew this and pointed his followers at her anyway.
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perhaps the recent extreme violence in Toronto has given him some perspective on why you don't do this. maybe
@jkenney sees in hindsight that he should not have participated in the organized harassment of this woman. I think that he should make a statement and apologize to her.Show this thread -
if he doesn't, I think we should remember that days before a violent online misogynist took his hate offline and onto the streets of Toronto, Jason Kenney was happy to do a little hate-generating himself, and even after Toronto he doesn't see anything wrong with what he did.
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