Donald Trump told his racist supports to “stop” being racist lunatics in his recent 60 Minutes interview, but it might be too late to call off the lynch mob.
After last week’s election, minorities nationwide have reported being terrorized by backers of the President-elect, whose win has seemed to awaken the racist underbelly of society.
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The latest victim of the surge in ethnocentrism is Emmy Rossum, who received disgusting anti-Semitic messages on Twitter from a Trump supporter “threatening to send me and my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers.”
Over the weekend, the Shameless star shared a series of tweets detailing the awful messages, which included a reference to WWII concentration camp trains.
The actress, who is Jewish, posted:
Trump supporters are sending me messages threatening to send me & my “ilk” to the gas chambers & writing hashtags like “#sieg hiel”. NOT OK.
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 13, 2016
Telling anyone to “get ready for the trains” in reference to WWII is disgusting & offensive.Reporting you to twitter is not enough.Back off.
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 13, 2016
I would NEVER make something like this up. I couldn’t. For those of you who are shaming me for bringing attention to it, go read his feed
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 14, 2016
So awful!
The 30-year-old, who is a vocal Hillary Clinton supporter, made a point to say these hate-filled threats are NOT okay regardless of political affiliation, continuing:
This is 1 individual who targeted me. He since deleted the awful train pic. Why not check out the rest of his posts/likes @SpotEnemyBoats
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 14, 2016
No matter WHO you voted for, I don’t care, THIS is not okay. “You will be seeing a train shortly” pic.twitter.com/cvQP6Fegz4
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 14, 2016
This doesn’t scare me. It doesn’t cause me nightmares. I find it sad to recognize that this kind of vicious underbelly was there all along.
— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 14, 2016
We applaud the actress for standing up to this type of hate.
While not every Trump supporter is a racist nut job (we hope!), this vocal group needs to be shut down any time they spew out hate-filled venom like this.
[Image via Apega/WENN.]
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