Well here's another example of "minorities face a disproportionate number of threats on the internet, for minor perceived inconveniences" for my article on Internet threat jurisprudence. It's really disappointing how perfectly this slots in with my argument "so the first amendment proponents kind of dropped the ball, there, with their idea of 'valuable speech.'" I've been hip-deep in the subject for weeks now, and it leaves me breathless every time. These are presumably normal people. The people you walk past every day. That they have this kind of vitriol in them-- that they're this close to a psychotic break, that they even think it's an appropriate response-- makes me want to barricade my door.

And yet I'm still gobsmacked, and that's after waking up yesterday morning to people getting death threats over My Little Pony.