Posted on 02/16/2019 11:16:45 PM PST by blueplum
The scale of online abuse by ‘boys’ club’ Ligue du Lol has sent shockwaves through society
F lorence Desruol was a freelance consultant living in Lyon when the attacks began in 2009. Hundreds of abusive messages were posted online, a false account was created in her name, and her head was Photoshopped on to pornograph images and published. “I was called a slut, a whore, my face was grafted on to a picture of a naked woman having sex – it was all designed to humiliate and silence me,” she said.
What stood out was that the abuse was coming from a group of young, influential journalists in Paris, many at the heart of prominent newsrooms and websites. About 30 men, several of whom were working for progressive or left-leaning media, had started a “boys’ club” called the Ligue du Lol (League of Lol).
They are accused of running online harassment campaigns against feminists, female journalists, writers of colour and gay people – often using false accounts to spread racist and sexist abuse and rape-threats. The French media were thrown into crisis this week when the full scale of abuse began... (snip)
...The scale of the League of Lol’s targeting of feminists, writers of colour and LGBT men was described by senior journalists this week as “vomit-making”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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It appears the entire world of libtardism is jockeying for victim status. Does queer trump black? Are trannys fags? It would be funny to watch if the orients weren’t so ominous.
So this journalistic group was Smolletting hoaxes to promote their agendas?
But Euros just love to go on about how racist Americans are.
so leftist males were attacking females, and leftist females at that it appears.
What is a “freelance consultant”?
I suppose it is a consultant who does not work for a specific company. It would have been informative to know what field she is consulting in.
Sounds like another victimology cat-fight.
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