Thread by @SurfCityWriter

Labeling someone a "terrorist" in a public forum or social media is targeting. It's an effort not only to malign, but also to incite others.

Ask me how I know.

On July 3, 2017, a Huntington Beach hate blog w/ anti-Asian imagery & rhetoric called me a terrorist...

https://twitter.com/inminivanhell/status/1486051216995934208

My crime? Writing about & working to save @WintersburgHB in Huntington Beach, an endangered National Treasure historic place representing over a century of Japanese American history. The history that's "CRT."

Kim Sorgente is from Huntington Beach.
latimes.com/socal/daily-pi…

Several years of cyber stalking, harassment, threats from the hate blog & his pals, all in Huntington Beach, originating in early 2016.

The response received by @KatrinaFoley is very familiar to me. One detective telling me they had to wait until "something worse" happened.

This was the blogger, who also threatened a school district trustee to "be quiet or be killed."

Just a blogger, just a "figure of speech," "why can't you take a joke?" Until it incites someone to action.

latimes.com/socal/daily-pi…

This was his header on July 3, 2017. That's the old Rising Sun flag of Japan, a Japanese zero airplane, & sledgehammer icon (longtime white supremacist symbol). Not subtle.

In this post, he posted photos of people he was targeting, including the school board trustee & me.

The Orange County BOS and law enforcement need to take these threats seriously. This is not normal free speech. They know that.