Offensive, racist texts now being sent to high-schoolers, Latinos and LGBTQ community, FBI says
Offensive, racist texts now being sent to high-schoolers, Latinos and LGBTQ community, FBI says
The agency said that reports have grown since last week when Black people were targeted with messages from anonymous phone numbers.
Summary
The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.
Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.
While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.
Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.
Tin foil hat time: What if it's the Russians just trying to spark a civil war over here?
Yeah this is just regular hat type thinking
No, that's been their plan the entire time.
I think there’s a lot of ways to connect those dots. It’s not very “tin foil” in my opinion. There’s no way to “invade” the US. They have to destroy it from within.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
I also remember reading how there's evidence that the USSR was funding both sides of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, with the hopes that it would tear the country apart.
Honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic lol. Yeah, autocracies have long maintained that democracy and freedom of speech isn't sustainable because you can always use free speech to manipulate the voters to democratically elect an autocrat who ends the democracy. Russia has been openly trying to demonstrate this since the cold war.
Source: ex-KGB agent flat-out says it.
Another poster suggested a Russian disinformation campaign, I would suggest a more home-grown hate faction that was grown from the poll-watcher contingent. They culled and sifted lists of people that were most likely to "spoil the vote" and had nothing else to do do but harass people.
Ya I did, it probably is, thanks for bringing this up. We need to get the word out! Fuck misinformation!
I've been calling this for years. The next holocaust will be more efficient than Hitler could ever imagine beyond his wildest dreams. Big tech knows more than people know about themselves. We're all on lists we don't even know we're on. People will be discriminated for reasons they didn't know they could be.
Not too late to install all the tracker blockers, all the metrics blockers, and also start using plug-ins and tools to pollute the data one creates online so it is full of noise. Leave the cloud as much as possible too. Minimize social media use. Minimize use of mobile phones for social media as they are data polluters. Disable and cease using health tracking features in watches and such. Delete (well, "delete") what you can now before data preservation laws change. Companies don't like the cost of saving everyone's data so they often do have retention policies.
Any of these steps help.
Longer-term, all medical databases storing patient records should have tons of fake patients inserted to create noise there too, in lieu of better, safer storage policies. This is more of a challenge. People at risk may want to request copies of their medical records now and see if the provider has a deletion policy.
IBM programmed the first one you described
People will be discriminated for reasons they didn't know they could be.
camera pans over to r/dogfree where they're hating anybody who has even been near a dog
Dog free??? Even Satan fuck with dogs cause he knows they are loyal and rad as fuck
“Some recipients reported being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp,” the agency said.
How is anyone supposed to believe this? Oh wait, I remember. Because it was voted for.
It's exactly that threat that is why we are emigrating. If my daughter were marched into a conversion therapy camp, I would never forgive myself.
Hey, we get what we voted for. Our only hope is that people stand up to them. But I won’t hold my breath.
May our collective military boot action find the correct metaphorical set of balls to kick onto the legal concrete. I want those balls to make a nice social media pop noise.