🧵 As I continue pulling back the curtain on harassment from purportedly “anti-hate” accounts, here’s an illustration of how unprincipled these haters can be.
Leading up to the provincial election, one of them reported me as an unregistered third-party advertiser.
Elections Ontario opened an investigation based on the complaint about my #GetTheFordOut lawn signs and merchandise.
I cooperated fully by providing my perspective.
I was vindicated but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
What was meant to be a cheeky campaign to increase political engagement through art & comedy needlessly wasted public resources thanks to a complaint made out of spite.
It takes a special person to claim progressive values while white knighting for Doug Ford by attacking a brown Muslim woman.
For the record, I am less of a threat to democracy than a premier who casually invokes the notwithstanding clause to override our constitutional rights.
Anyway, here’s Keven Ages hanging out with two of my other online & IRL harassers, Gisela McKay and former (?) Proud Boy Josh Chernofsky.
The group is pretending to steal a plant in solidarity with another harasser and Canadian Anti-Hate Network contributor, Morgan Yew.
ICYMI Here’s the background story to the plant fiasco:
The real cruelty was tagging me, which at first flooded my mentions with hateful replies.
And for what? The tweets to which she took offence were not offensive or incendiary. I was simply asking legitimate questions about transparency in journalism.
Bear in mind: Ms. Ifill had no way of knowing why my account was uncharacteristically locked.
I don’t share much about my personal life online; I handle trials & tribulations alone.
I have been so thoroughly dehumanized that it’s inconceivable to not use me as a punching bag.