Here’s the link I was sent to : Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating . The piece of the conversation below is from discussing it on Facebook though. My comment: This makes me think the web newbies of the world are experiencing what I did in 1993, thinking of the internet (such as it was then) as a place where I couldn’t yet conceptualize that I was talking to real people with emotions and sometimes bad intentions, on account of how young and stupid I was then. I was not quite stupid or mean enough to ever get threatened, just dumb enough to think that people wouldn’t threaten me for any number of insane things. Dumb enough to attract other dumb people who think they’re the only people with the means to threaten people and carry those threats out. I remember when I was in college, after a racist article was published in the school newspaper, and my mentor spoke out about it, and wrote a letter to the editor on our behalf. I was sitting in his office when he got the death threat by telephone. It was alarming how calm he was. He was on the phone in his office, and looked up at me, then behind me to the hallway. And he said “would you say that again?” His face didn’t change, his voice just … hardened. I got chills. PS- Ms M. – I hear what you’re saying. Name names, and not

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