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irisblue

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5. Updates from her twitter, white nationalists and supremacists are of course there as well 🤦

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 01:09 PM

Aug 2019

Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) Tweeted:
Here are two I received yesterday in the midst of all this.

*address is blacked out because I've determined it was fake https://t.co/WyGRstqowl

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) Tweeted:
2) These last few weeks I have received a dramatic increase in racist threats.

3) the reason why the sheriff's dept knew that I was a swatting list is because my address was listed on a site designed to encourage swatting, where they literally named my work as the reason why.

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I am so angry about this.

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Ijeoma Oluo was swatted. No one was hurt, thank heavens [View all] irisblue Aug 2019 OP

Sick oswaldactedalone Aug 2019 #1

She is fortunate to have the Sheriff's office acting responsibly. brer cat Aug 2019 #2

Thank goodness she had the foresight to warn the Sheriff's Office! GeoWilliam750 Aug 2019 #3

I saw this earlier. I love Ijeoma. My heart aches that this is happening to her. Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #4

Updates from her twitter, white nationalists and supremacists are of course there as well 🤦 irisblue Aug 2019 #5