Leslie Jones Calls Out Horrifying Racist Abuse On Twitter

Leslie Jones has suffered a torrent of racist abuse on her Twitter feed following the release of Ghostbusters.

However she is not taking the abuse lightly. Instead of ignoring the attacks online, she is naming and shaming the abusers by tweeting the particularly horrific tweets she has received.

Here are just a few she has shared:

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— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016

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— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016

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Yep so sad these people have mothers and sisters and aunts. So fucking sickening pic.twitter.com/fEVLEgUfGh
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016

The abuse got to such a ridiculous point that she started tweeting all of her thoughts about the situation, and she did not hold back.

You have to hate yourself to putout that type of hate. I mean on my worst day I can't think of this type of hate to put out.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

I don't know how to feel. I'm numb. Actually numb. I see the words and pics and videos. Videos y'all. Meaning people took time to sprew hate
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

I use to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accts now I know. You can't be nice and communicate with fans cause people crazy.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

I'm not stupid to not know racism exists. And I know it will probably live on way after me. But we have to make people take responsibility
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

Stop letting g people get away with being ignorant. You stupid people to shut up. Tell them to shut up real talk. Say something.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that. You can see on the
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

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Profiles that some of these people are crazy sick. It's not enough to freeze Acct. They should be reported.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

And for all the "don't stoop to their level people" it's way past that. So please have a seat. Don't tell me how to react.
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

She finished off the rant with this final note of good night.

I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

Leslie Jones has also recently faced discrimination when designers wouldn’t dress her for the red carpet. She also used her voice on Twitter to speak out about it.

Erin Rooney