Trolls don’t necessarily believe what they say. They just want to get a reaction. She gave them exactly what they wanted.

She’s implying that being compared to a gorilla is a bad thing. That’s very speciesist

Yeah, and the number one way to stop rape is for women to stay indoor covered up?!?… victims do not need to leave public spaces so agressors can feel more comfortable.

Equating mean comments on Twitter with rape, ladies and gentlemen the logic of an SJW.

Jason, you really are a terrible person.

Why is Jason terrible for pointing out a gross false equivalency? Comparing senseless abuse to genuine rape is a humongous, disingenuous leap in logic.

Conor the comparison was in the reaction if the victim not the offense. A touch of the disingenuous about you there too.

I disagree. Making comparisons to something as terrible and viscerally emotive as rape is a massive leap when it’s not relevant to the topic. Like calling someone ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’, it’s extremely loaded and attempts to compare people disagreeing with rape apologism.

Racism is prevalent in the US. It is damaging, corrosive and it costs lives as well as inflicting great misery and life long disadvantage and deprivation.

He’s a terrible person because he goes from article to article spreading hate towards various groups which conflict with his ideology. The only consistency with his posts is you can be sure they’re intended to condemn some general group of people, he wouldn’t waste his time writing it otherwise.

Conor, again you miss the point. The comparison was in the behaviour of the victim, not the offense. Nobody said the comments were like rape.

Rochelle, Jason Culligan certainly has form. He is a passionate gun advocate, denies racism (using expressions such as “institutional” racism) expresses strong alarmism about Islam instead of the specific threat of Jihadism and promotes a strongly right wing viewpoint, asserting for example in the case of the killing of the British MP, Jo Cox, that the perpetrator used a homemade gun, not a manufactured gun.

Jason Culligan often uses insulting terms about those who are liberal or on the left or who advocate for stricter gun control.

Jason defends the police execution style killings of black citizens and spends much time defending the guns and arms industries, often relying on the rhetoric and distorted arguments of the NRA.

Use of analogy is not stating equivalence as you well know.

Noreen L’s comment draws no equivalence between rape and racist tweets and does not seek to compare rape and racist tweets.

Jason Culligan misrepresented the comment of Noreen L so as to indulge himself with his SJW comment. It’s a standard distraction tactic which he deploys so as to divert from the topic of the article.

Noreen L merely points out that passivity and withdrawal from public space in real life or online are not the solution. That is a reasonable and sensible position to adopt.

It would be unfortunate if social media sites were left to the monopoly of comments of Jason Culligan and his ilk.

That’s fine for regular users, what would you advise when the abuse is coming from thousands of accounts? Cyber bullying is easily dealt with on a small scale but the situation being experienced by a lot of people in the public eye is more like cyber mobbing.

Keep their personal social media accounts private, and for their actual friends. Let their PR people run their official accounts, and deal with the ugly side of humanity.

Sucks for up-and-comers, who don’t have the cash yet to have PR people, but that of course is the sweet thing about having the cash to have PR representation (as I’m sure the lady in question has).

Think this is the only answer in the short term until humanity grows up a bit. I’m sure even denero got loads of hate mail after some of his bad movies. I think people, especially sensitive ones, need to expect a torrent of abuse and learn how to deal with it (hire pr, dont use Twitter under real name etc). If you analyse group behaviour of the race as a whole were akin to a 14yo without real parent supervision imo. And who would care what a 14yo says about you? But at same time twits should do something, it wont fix the issue ofc but gotta try…

You think humanity is growing up? Have you looked at the news lately?

Rochelle – I don’t well know tbh. I agree sjw has become a term for the eye-rolling ramblings of extreme left, the kooks and the crazies; but there are people who think of themselves as such.

You spend enough time labeling people as such I’d think you’d have realised by now that it isn’t a term of endearment.

It’s only become a term associated with derision because people have seen the lunacy associated with SJW’s. That is telling

Sorry @Rochelle but I am a mildly socialist Liberal and I use the term ‘SJW’ to describe a very specific group of people that I feel are ideologically dangerous.

I know it’s easier if you can dismiss all your critics as ‘extreme right wing’ but the reality is that a lot of people of all political stripes are sick of the nonsense that the regressive left are spouting.

You’re either incredibly naive, Conor or believe the readers here are incredibly stupid if you think you can invent an origin like that. There is no confusion over its origin and anybody capable of a simple google can discover that.

@the asian nightmare, Yes I’ve heard that before in articles during your constant defence of Trump while simultaneously declaring how progressive thinking you are.

The extreme right use a lot of pejorative terms such as “libtards” “SJWs” and other equivalent expression but it is mere invective, adds nothing of substance to the debate and merely reveals the mentality of the person who uses such expressions.

The use of such expressions is a code or signal for those on the extreme right to recognise each other and to mob those who disagree with them.

It does not surprise me at all that Jason Culligan would divert the discussion away from the reality of the racist tweets by deploying this expression. It’s a standard tactic fir those who want to distract from the reality of racism.

I don’t support Trump in any way, shape or form Rochelle. I’ve criticised the incredibly biased coverage that the Journal has given him. Not because I disagree with what they are saying but because I prefer my reporting to be objective and agenda free. I wouldn’t vote trump in a thousand years.

But that sort of bias and willingness to force views onto others is exactly the reason I dislike SJWs. That and their squatting on the term ‘Liberal’. SJWs are liberal and tolerant only if you tow the party line completely and uncritically.

“As with comic book industry, and comedy, they turned their back on the people who would normally pay to see these movies, just to keep the virtue signalling leftist liberals happy. But now they are paying the price in lost revenue. because these whiny liberals dont go to see these movies anyway.”

I’m a union man, have been for 15 years. I believe in free healthcare and education, social welfare, repealing the 8th, legalised prostitution and marijuana. I believe in secular education, gay marriage and liberal abortion laws.

But because I disagree with the race to the bottom identity politics and increasing encroachment on arts and culture of said ridiculous identity politics you label me a right wing conservative.

With all due respect Rochelle, you’re talking nonsense.

To be fair I think Hillary and Donald get the same type of treatment. It’s only the bad news that gets published here.

Rochelle – if the cap fits

@the asian nightmare Yes, many of your posts read like “I’m left wing but.. [insert right wing sentiment here]”
Not sure who you’re fooling, you’ve done it dozens of times at this stage. At the end of the day most of your political posts which I’ve seen appear to support a right wing message, regardless of how you frame it.

@rochelle, which of the beliefs and stances I’ve listed would you class as right wing? Just because I strongly disagree with SJWs and their methods doesn’t make me right wing. I’m not a racist or a bigot of any kind and I’m not a balls out capitalist either. I’m probably a bit too pragmatic for SJW snowflakes is all, and I lack that innate SJW ability to hold several completely contradictory stances at once.

@rochelle thats par for the course with the alt-right, “free thinker”, meninist, alllivesmatter crowd. They call themselves “classical liberals” but they are anything but liberal or left leaning.

Have they removed Jason’s comment, I can’t see it.

@Eucrid Ive clearly stated my positions. Which would you class as conservative or ‘Alt-Right’? Youre dismissing me as right wing, what have i said that supports that?

A black woman being called a gorilla by an account with k k k in the name and a picture that looks like a Nazi beating a caricature of a jew. How could anyone think it has anything to do with racism? She sure is jumping to conclusions!

…and then you went on to deride her for having the temerity to object to the “attention” (which in this case was racism).

Ricky, there can be no doubt that What’s shown here is a very mild selection of the comments as the journal cannot publish the majority of the more serious tweets.

Wrong again.
I referred to ‘Celeb’ culture in general.
Careful now………you might topple over.

Wrong again Ricky, because you did include her in “they”

Bad case of myopia there Dave.

“Twitter and all social media needs to have rules about hate, racists or any phobic speech, simples.”

Don’t laws about that sort of thing already exist? Can’t they apply per jurisdiction?

Dave, you may have taken my comment a bit too literally. Is she a movie star? by any stretch of the imagination no Is the movie any good? Don’t know or care. Should they have left the original Ghostbusters alone? Yes