Racist and anti-LGBTQ+ texts target Americans across US, including teens

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Fri 15 Nov 2024 18.18 EST
Last modified on Fri 15 Nov 2024 21.04 EST


Racist text messages targeting Black people across the US just hours after Donald Trump won a second presidency have now expanded to the Hispanic communities – and homophobic versions have been aimed at LGBTQ+ people, the FBI said on Friday.

Authorities say they are investigating the messages – which now include emails – and that they have not received reports of violent acts stemming from the hateful messages. The recipients of the messages include high school students being told that they have been “selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp”, the FBI said in a statement.

After the 5 November US presidential election saw Trump returned to the White House, Black Americans reported receiving racist text messages telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton and needed to report to the “nearest plantation”.

Black people in states including Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, New Jersey and Nevada, and in Washington DC and elsewhere, reported receiving the messages. The messages were sent to Black adults and students. Some of the texts were signed “a Trump supporter”. Trump’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said the campaign “has absolutely nothing to do with these text messages”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/homophobic-anti-migrant-texts-election-fbi

[Irish_Dem]

1. Can they source the origin of these messages?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Eventually they do

like they found the one who did the bulk of the "swatting" calls.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Good.

I wonder if they are all domestic calls or from foreign origin.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Some had been foreign

but I think now the foreign farms can let the domestic ones have at it as their own "work is done".

[Irish_Dem]

6. I was wondering about that.

Of course the foreign farms might want to keep up the chaos, hatred, and fear.

This all helps Trump maintain power. Creating a fearful and apprehensive populace.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Agree but they will need to get new "orders" and "strategies"

because in reality, as they have even admitted, they loathe "both parties" and their intent is to keep the chaos going...

That means they can easily switch the propaganda attacks to go the other way, but they will probably want to watch the current fallout to see how things are playing out before they make changes.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Make no mistake. These plans were drawn up before the election.

We can clearly see all of this is perfectly planned and rolled out.

In terrifying precision and clarity.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I expect they had a framework

but they have to know to adapt because there are often quirks and quite a bit about "the west" that they often miss... I.e., the U.S. is a "moody" country.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Well yes of course. That is the nature of field work.

Boots on the ground need to adapt to the enemy in front of them.
And a rapidly changing environment.
But the overall mission remains the same.

Also make no mistake, they have experts on US culture working for them.
People probably educated here in the west.
They know the exact psychological buttons to press, and press hard.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Welcome to Trump's America. This is what voters chose, most of them knowingly.

[oasis]

8. +1

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. I am still wondering why those rethugs want to shut down the FBI... I guess I will never know...