Austan Goolsbee Quotes

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.

Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.

Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

I've had threats.

You motherfucker Jew bastard, get your ass out of Chicago.

People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.