Leslie Jones fights back against racist trolls on Twitter

The "Ghostbusters" star isn't feeding the trolls. She's lighting 'em up
By Josh Dickey  on 
Leslie Jones fights back against racist trolls on Twitter
Leslie Jones ain't afraid of no trolls. Credit: Getty Images

LOS ANGELES -- Don't feed the trolls, says the ancient internet wisdom. Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones is lighting them up and crossing the streams.

Because at some point, enough is enough. Everyone has a limit. Jones found her limit Monday night in the form of deeply ugly, unequivocally racist attacks on Twitter. A lot of them.

She just isn't having this.

And around noon ET on Monday, she started to wind up.

Over the course of more than 30 tweets and half as many retweets, Jones has been blowing up accounts that were tweeting at her with some pretty vile, un-repeatable things.

Though we won't amplify them here, Jones has been holding nothing back:

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... and decided instead to expose (and in some cases, report) the worst of the worst.

Some of it really was scary.

You'll have to go

You know I'm gonna stop blocking so y'all can go through my feed yourself and see the bs. You won't believe the evil. It's fucking scary

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016 " target="_blank">over to Jones' feed to see the very worst of the worst, but even some of the milder examples are breathtaking in the depths of their evil.

She also criticized Twitter for letting this happen in the first place, prompting a response from Jack Dorsey, the social media company's co-founder and CEO.

At some point in the evening, Jones took a dour turn. And who could blame her?

But for now, she's hanging in with the attack strategy.

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Josh Dickey

Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.


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