

In 2017, there’s threat of your identity and contact information being released that could very well mean hundreds of violent protestors converging outside your home or work. If we don’t give them the platform, words don’t go anywhere.ĬNN reserved the right to share the meme creator’s identity if he continued. The truth is, words only matter if you give them weight. The old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” seems applicable. When people respond to these things in a negative way, they are only destroying themselves in the process, and making the original communication newsworthy and more important. If we realize that many people say things for shock value, we should understand that when we give attention, we are giving the provocateur what he wants. People choose to react however they want to what is said. When people claim that what someone says incites violence, that's just not true.

People have a right to say anything they want. If you can’t say it with honor, don’t say it. If you’re going to be a coward, then expect to be treated like one.
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I’m all for free speech, but I’m also for consequences. The person responsible for the meme was truly brave until threatened with exposure, then the whining started. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:
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The situation escalated after journalist Jared Yates Sexton identified “HanAssholeSolo” as the meme’s creator and noted that some of the user’s other reddit posts were antisemitic, after which Sexton says he was subjected to a torrent of abuse from Trump supporters.


It set off a firestorm on Sunday after it was tweeted out without attribution by Donald Trump’s official Twitter account. The original meme - a grainy mirror image of a scene from a 2007 WrestleMania stunt involving Trump and WWE CEO Vince McMahon - shows a pink-tie-wearing Trump jumping a suited figure on the side of a wrestling ring, tossing him to the ground and then punching him in the face before walking away in triumph.
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