Some people fail to understand the longevity of targeted abuse of women of color on Twitter. One single attack can last for years.
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I had this person, Travis DuCote, blocked already. He nevertheless went out of his way to take screenshots of my tweets and posted them.
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What Travis DuCote posted about me was RTd thousands of times. He gloated about having a viral tweet. It was then shared on other platforms.pic.twitter.com/pc2yMj06F5
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One whole year later,
@ErnoldJohnson took Travis DuCote's tweet/image. It's currently his pinned tweet, with 647 RTs and 1.5K likes.pic.twitter.com/5Pnu0WasvB
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I don't know what
@ErnoldJohnson intended but his pinned tweet garnered me a lot of attacks. Been pinned a month and it's still happening. -
For example, just yesterday, a kid named John Walker from Vancouver who uses the handle
@drdressup tweeted me this:pic.twitter.com/Hn361lZWVJ
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I was wondering why John/
@drdressup decided to call me a cunt out of nowhere; went to his account, noticed he'd RTd@ErnoldJohnson's tweet. -
It gets tiring and wears me down. I can't have a feminist analysis about a movie without being made to feel like shit for an entire year.
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It's pretty much always men. They're pretty much always white. Travis DuCote is a brocialist; his meme inspires right-wingers to attack me.
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And even as I tweet how worn down and shitty this makes me feel, people like
@Brockaganda are attacking me. Can't you get a life, dude? - 5 more replies
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