Trolls attack slain Mollie Tibbetts for pro-immigration tweets
After Cristhian Bahena Rivera was charged in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday, anti-immigrant trolls took to Twitter to harass the dead woman for her criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
The barrage of offensive tweets is a distillation of a political culture in which conservative victories hinge on—and are in fact based on—”owning” liberals. Even dead ones.
When U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley spoke to a group of high school students in July, she cautioned them against this kind of tactic; Breitbart promptly accused her of “scolding” the students. Breitbart also has a sticker that reads, “Safe spaces are for snowflakes”—the idea being that weak, whiny liberal “snowflakes” get “triggered,” and that it’s now both satisfying and es...
