A Twitter campaign is outing people who marched with white nationalists in Charlottesville
(WaPo)
(WaPo)
Who suggested during the campaign that all Trump supporters be named and shamed? That they be forced to affix a "Trump Voter" sign to their residences, vehicles and foreheads? That the businesses of Trump voters likewise be affixed with such a sign? That said businesses be boycotted? Who vowed to cut ties with anyone he knew voted for Trump, including family members (and did)? Who vowed never knowingly to employ or associate with a Trump voter? Who suggested that all known Trump voters be...encouraged to immigrate to Russia or the Alabama or Idaho Oblasts? Oh, that's right, me.
"...the Twitter user @YesYoureRacist asked for help identifying “Nazis marching in Charlottesville.”
"The anonymous user linked to copious photos and videos of the rally — swastikas and crowds of shouting white men.
"Within minutes, names began to pour in, and consequences began to unfurl in home towns across the country.
"The first target was a man spotted in a crowd of tiki-torch-wielding marchers, whom Twitter users identified as Cole White, a cook at a hot dog restaurant in Berkeley, Calif.
"By Saturday evening, the restaurant had posted signs in its windows and sent a statement to The Washington Post — the cook was no longer employed.
"By then, @YesYoureRacist was targeting a new marcher: Peter Cvjetanovic, who more than 10,000 petition signers think should be expelled from the University of Nevada.
"...James Allsup’s presence in Virginia caused a scandal back home at his school, Washington State University.
"The school’s president first released a statement condemning “racism and Nazism of any kind,” then an open letter denouncing the rally for surfacing “the most vile and dehumanizing beliefs and actions of human history.”
"Allsup...leads the College Republicans at the university..."
