Summary

The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.

Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.

While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.

Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    801 month ago

    FBI on Jan 20 Afternoon: “The racist texts are being sent by democrats and antifa as a false flag operation to blame republicans. Heil Trump! President for life!”

    • socsa
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      161 month ago

      Trump will tell these people that eggs are $1.00 per dozen and they’re repeat it as fact while they buy $7 eggs

      • @AbidanYre
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        71 month ago

        Arrested Development won’t be nearly as funny when a banana is $10.