During the past few years we have become used to stories how women and /or POC are harassed on social media by certain messed up men. People like Shkreli target individual women and start to harass/ intimidate them. Usually such a harasser has a large amount of loyal followers on social media who will then follow his example and harass the woman in question.

What is largely unknown is that some people on the far left use the exact same tactics to intimidate/ harass women and POC on social media. Usually the women or POC in question are outspoken Obama or Hillary Clinton supporters, which in itself is apparently enough reason to harass/ intimidate them.

In this article I want to highlight someone who spends 24/7 hours on Twitter directing her followers to attack/ intimidate and harass women/ POC: ‘journalist’ Katie Halper.

Katie is a fanatic Bernie Sanders supporter who, as woman, obviously feels uncomfortable with the often reported systematic harassment of women/ POC by certain Bernie supporters: the infamous Berniebros.

This harassment has been reported and documented for a full 1,5 years:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/07/the-bernie-bros-are-out-in-full-force-harassing-female-reporters/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/female-journalists-report-harassment-from-bernie-sanders-supporters/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-nevada-dem-chair_us_573b4b8de4b0aee7b8e7dfa2

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128747/sanders-campaign-knows-bernie-bros-problem

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/4/10918710/berniebro-bernie-bro

This sexist harassment should make someone think about the cause she supports, but that’s not what Katie does. Instead, she seems to have taken it upon herself to prove that the other side (as in: Clinton supporters) are the real racists/ sexists/ anti-Semites.

Katie obsessively tweets at Clinton supporters that they are anti-Semites:

(Note the last tweet because it is a perfect example of how Katie operates: it doesn’t provide any evidence of anti-Semitism. It just states: “this suggests a possible anti-Semitism”).

This is another good example:

“She should admit to hating Jews. She shd remember that we’ve also never had a Jewish president & her violent fantasies towards bernie (6/?)”

Now, if you look through Katie’s tweets, you can find these attempts to smear anyone that objects to anything Bernie related, as anti-Semite on an almost daily basis.

Here you can find her calling Joy Ann Reid a “little anti Semitic”:

“It’s not anti-Semitic but It’s a little anti-Semitic adjacent for @JoyAnnReid to call Bernie a cheap parasite”

Note: in none of the above tweets Katie provides any evidence for actual anti-Semitic behavior/ tweets (and of course Reid didn’t call Bernie a cheap parasite).

She just tries to smear any critic of Sanders as being anti-Semitic.

In fact: Katie is a bit obsessed with this:

Here she calls upon people to come forward with any evidence of Clinton supporters behaving in a racist/ sexist way:

It is clear that Katie is on a mission to single-handedly prove that women/ POC weren’t systematically harassed by Bernie bros, but that instead the Clinton supporters are the real racists/ sexists. Since this isn’t something that is discussed or reported on social media AT ALL, Katie calls upon people to report it. I mean: if one wants to make a case the other side is just as bad, you have to dig, right?

Although it is clear people on both sides can be dickish, individual incidents of bad behavior don’t erase the systematic harassment and/ or intimidation by Bernie’s bros.

Although THIS is exactly what Katie’s mission is: to erase the stories of women/ POC who have been harassed/ intimidated on social media for a good 1,5 years.

Which makes sense when it turns out Katie Halper is in fact a major agent/ contributor to this harassment.

Unlike what people might think, this harassment never happens spontaneous. It is 9 out of 10 times orchestrated by some known personalities on the far left who use their large Twitter following to direct their followers to attack certain political opponents.

The none stop obsessive attacks on Clinton supporters by Katie cause me to think something is terribly wrong with Katie. But individual angry tweets aren’t the problem here: when victims of her obsessive behavior decide to block her, she starts to direct her followers to go after these people.

This is a perfect example of how Katie directs her followers to harass/ intimidate female Clinton supporters:

Katie gets in an argument with someone and then keeps digging this up to play the victim:

“In case you missed it, @SallyAlbright “insulted me” by calling me a “cam girl.” See the definition below, as well as my advice to her.”

In case you missed it….

What follows is that Katie’s followers immediately flock to the twitter account of said person and start to harass/ intimidate/ threaten that person none stop for days.

Here she sticks her followers on the same Sally, for no other reason than that she can:

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/883167882707972096

Sometimes Katie’s tweets become borderline insane and incredibly vile, for example when she tweeted this at a female Clinton supporter, when that person actually complained about the excessive harassment by Katie’s followers:

“You’re a sick person. I feel bad for you and worse for your daughter. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be raised by you”.

Note: the woman in question was harassed for days on her Twitter account, by Katie’s followers.

“Once her legions descended on Stone, she found herself being accused of being a liar, a hypocrite, and anti-semite (even though she’s Jewish.) It climaxed when Halper brought Stone’s daughter into it, saying she “can’t imagine” what it would be like to be raised by “a sick person.” “I have no idea why or how she brought that up,” Stone said. “Just a way to hurt me, I guess.”

Both Stone and Bravenak spent a good deal of time fending off the trolls over the last few days, giving as well as they could take, in spite of the exhaustion it can cause. “Their MO is to make you think you’re crazy,” Stone said to me. “Many times she kept saying ‘seek help,’ which is typical.”

https://thedailybanter.com/2017/09/susan-sarandon-sics-her-twitter-bullies/

Here Katie goes after Neera Tanden:

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/733789598753652740

Going after Peter Daou and Neera Tanden:

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/909121936902541312

Here she just lists the neo-liberal shills complete with Twitter handle, to make it easier for her followers to go after them:

Note: in all of the above instances the person in question is harassed for days by Katie’s followers. Those followers don’t actually engage in discussion or voice their opinion, but they post offensive meme’s, and otherwise insulting/ abusive tweets.

Katie also likes to go after people’s job. By tweeting messages at people’s boss that a certain person is critical of …Sanders:

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/859295654438481920

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/an-editor-at-ms-magazine-rejoices-that-someday-ber.html

Here she starts to tweet at @Msnbc complaining about Joy Ann Reid:

I mean: to hell with having an important WOC voice on tv, right?

Here is Katie, going after Joan Walsh, AFTER Joan Walsh decided to finally block her:

Read the 30 (!) part tweet storm, all aimed to make her followers go after Walsh.

This is a modus operandi Katie usually uses: when people block her, she goes after them in Twitter rants of almost hysterical anger.

Which then ofc leads to her followers going after the person in question instead.

In other words: people can block Katie to escape from her harassing behavior, but she then sticks her followers on said people, by posting twitter storms against those people.

As far as I know this is against Twitter rules, but then: when has Twitter ever done anything to protect women/ POC against harassment?

In a normal society we would probably seek help for a person like Katie Halper, to get some therapy for her sick obsession with female/ POC Clinton supporters. But we are talking here about a journalist with a large following on Twitter and other social media (like Reddit for example), who seems to spend her every waking hour to harass/ intimidate political opponents.

And FYI: threats to go after people, which Katie often makes, do intimidate people. Not everyone is strong enough to go through days of excessive harassment and still stay on Twitter. Having a large following on Twitter of people who are willing to go after people, gives people power and as in Katie’s case this power is used to try to silence political opponents.

This isn’t fun, or just weird, this is a direct threat to the freedom of speech people have. Why Twitter allows this behavior is beyond me.

Here Katie goes after another known Bernie critic: Tom Watson. It is clear that in Katie’s mind any criticism of Bernie should be outlawed or forbidden and that critics of Bernie should be silenced. If not by Twitter then by Katie’s army of rabid harassers and social media warriors:

Finally the latest episode of Twitter abuse by Halper’s followers started when she dug up an old tweet by a critic of Bernie Sanders, the lgtb activist Jeremy Constantinople:

Note: Halper doesn’t even address the tweets. She simply looks for people on Twitter who dare to voice any criticism of Bernie and then sticks her followers on that person:

Please help this guy…

The person in question was then harassed by Katie’s followers for days and had to block 1600 (!!!) of Katie’s followers. Followers who also mass reported old tweets by Jeremy in an effort to get him banned off Twitter. And ofc Twitter responded by doing just that.

Let’s call Katie what she is: a fascist alt left creep who is working to silence political opponents by harassing them and trying to silence them.

I suggest people pay close attention to anything Katie does from now on and mass report Katie by the slightest attempt to harass people, until Twitter support sees the light and protects women/ lgtb and POC from this creep.