Getting hit by Tucker was a bit like getting kicked in the balls: There’s the moment after the strike but before the pain registers when you can hope it was a glancing blow but know that in a few moments you’ll be in agonizing pain. Those notes were interspersed with the almost equally annoying “concern” e-mails from friends worried that I’d be fired for whatever I said that caught Carlson’s attention, as if there was some way to do my job without pissing him off. I would endure a few days of hateful, vaguely threatening but not legally actionable messages, making it unhealthy to even turn on my computer. Then, the really disturbing part of his fanbase, the neo-Confederate part, would be alerted to my presence. Whenever Carlson would show a clip of me and claim that my support of protests against one thing or another was a call for “violence” against white folks, my social media accounts and e-mail inbox would fill with people who use American flags and/or guns as their avatars, assuring me that I would one day reap whatever they’d been told I was sowing. I tried to laugh it all off, and move on.īut there would be other times that weren’t so easy to laugh off. I hadn’t had so many people interested in what I scored on the LSAT since I worked at Kaplan TestPrep. After my “appearance” I was shocked by how much hate mail I got in such a short period of time.
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