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When Parkland, Fla., high school student Emma Gonzalez spoke forcefully against gun violence in 2018 after the mass shooting at her high school, the video of her plea went viral. She received acclaim and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. But soon she was bombarded by hateful, violent invective that didn’t focus so much on her strong anti-gun views as on her gender, race, and sexual orientation.
That kind of response is not unusual and it’s been happening more and more, says Sarah Sobieraj, a professor of sociology and author of the recently published
Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy.