Lois Beckett // I was the target of a neo-Nazi ‘troll storm' | US news | The Guardian

27.11.17

I was the target of a neo-Nazi ‘troll storm' | US news | The Guardian: “Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi internet troll, asked his followers, talking about my family and me.

“Just make your opinions known. Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda,” he wrote. “And hey – if you’re in the area, maybe you should stop by and tell her in person what you think of her actions.”

I felt fear for my life – just fear, absolutely fear, for our lives. We had no idea what this meant. I had never heard of the Daily Stormer, which the Southern Poverty Law Center says is now “the most popular English-language website of the radical right”, a site with hundreds of thousands of visitors a month.

My husband and I sat on our bed in our bedroom and cried, thinking: what are we supposed to say to the kids when we wake them? That we’re running in the middle of the night and could possibly be in the greatest of dangers?

Do we tell our children that we’re running in the middle of the night because we’re Jewish?