People sending, like, monkey emojis and stuff like that − mostly just racist remarks.” “People saying that my ‘day of the rope’ will come. “I was getting photos sent to me of, like white power,” Unieke said. “I already have complex post-traumatic stress disorder, so, logging on to all that hate is just triggering in general.”įurther north, in Sacramento, California, Unieke, a drag queen who appears at a local all-age drag show, was being bombarded in the same way. “It was distressing,” said Nygard, who identifies as agender and uses she/they pronouns. The messages poured in, telling Nygard to kill herself, sending death threats as well as “88,” a white supremacist term that stands for “Heil Hitler.” The business owner from San Diego, who co-founded Restrained Grace, a company that creates and sells jewelry, gifts and fetish gear − and whose online profile uses the term "Antifa" − suddenly started getting dozens of hate-filled direct messages on social media. Caution: This story refers to racist and homophobic language.Īnnie Nygard didn’t know what was happening.
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