Her name is Jennifer Keller-Burns, and she's a horrible person.
Jennifer Keller-Burns is a horrible person specifically because she tried to destroy a man's livelihood. When her efforts to destroy his life backfired hilariously and started to endanger her husband's business, she and her husband went crying to the media. They are the victims, they claim, of "economic cyber-terrorism." The reputation of their business is suffering online, and they've reached out to crowd-funding sources for help with their financial problems.
The local news story underplays Keller-Burns' culpability for the backlash now affecting her economically, but the story can be summarized thusly: Keller-Burns, a feminist, made a series of YouTube videos filled with invective about one Dr. Phil Mason, a scientist and fellow YouTuber who is anything but a feminist. Keller-Burns, like all good social-justice whiners (SJWs), took offense that Mason was allowed to express his opinions as freely as was she on the same website. She therefore set about destroying him.
Neither Mason nor Keller-Burns had taken any pains to conceal their real-life identities, which made things interesting for both of them. In addition to making a slew of videos falsely characterizing Mason as a Nazi and hatemonger (videos that have since been deleted), Keller-Burns wrote a letter to Mason's employer. She described at length the horrific crimes against political correctness of which she believed Mason to be guilty, and she begged his employer to look at his YouTube channel and then fire him (lest the employer be tarred with the same hateful brush).
"I started out this week dead ... and fired," explains Phil Mason on his YouTube channel. "It wasn't just one letter. It was a letter-writing campaign."
"I spoke as an employer," says Keller-Burns, in a snippet of one her since-deleted videos included in Dr. Mason's account of the incident. "I said, effectively, he is besmirching their reputation and they should basically give him the choice of either continuing to do these kinds of videos or continuing to be a scientist." In other words, Keller-Burns explicitly wanted Mason silenced or fired. "I'm not sorry," she said in another clip. "I did what I thought was right. It was a campaign. Other people wrote letters. … I won't say who and I took down the videos, so you'll never know who said that they would."
Keller-Burns' letter, in fact, claimed that Mason "was using his position" at the institute where he is a scientist "to promote hatred and justify genocide." She went on to claim that Mason had expressed "sympathy for the Nazi genocide [of the Jews]" and that Dr. Mason's conduct was "dangerous." Keller-Burns also claimed that Mason is "openly racist against Muslims" (even though Islam is not a race) and that Mason "clearly hopes to fan the flames of hatred and perhaps even cause violence. I believe he has broken the law. ... He is in violation of [a specific anti-hate law] on numerous levels."
Now, bear in mind that in Western nations that aren't the United States, there are some pretty serious laws that abridge the freedom of speech where political incorrectness and "hate" are concerned. The letter-writing campaign to damage Dr. Phil Mason's position at the institute – because a feminist did not like his opinions – was not merely an attempt to destroy his livelihood, but also an attack on his reputation. Had the campaign produced the effects Keller-Burns desired, it might well have landed Mason in legal trouble.
The letter concluded by claiming Dr. Mason runs "a hate army" of hundreds of thousands of followers who are "neo nazi's [sic]" and that Dr. Mason "hates women," which Keller-Burns claims is Nazi ideology. "His followers are mostly white male Nazi Apologists/Revisionists/Sympathizers who he commands like an army," she frets. "He openly supports Hitler and the Nazi Holocaust as a good thing for humanity."
This letter, and others written by Keller-Burns' feminist allies (some of whom are that most wretched specimen of humanity: male feminists) did not get Dr. Mason fired – probably because all of the allegations leveled by Jennifer Keller-Burns are false. They are not subjectively false; they are not open to interpretation. They are simply, objectively not true. But they provide us a window into the mind of a a miserable leftist and social-justice whiner who, soaking in her vile, rabid feminism, hates almost all white males. (One presumes her husband has escaped her hatred, but then, one never knows.) Further, expressing any opinion not in line with Jennifer Keller-Burns and her particularly evil brand of SJW feminism is, in her mind, akin to openly supporting the Nazis, genocide and hatred of all women.
Keller-Burns apparently reveled in the assumption that Dr. Mason had been fired when he did not post on YouTube for a week. A work-related project left him with no time to post videos, prompting his fans to express dismay that perhaps he had, in fact, been silenced. Meanwhile, Keller-Burns gloated on her own channel. She also claimed there was nothing her criticism could do to her in retaliation ... until Dr. Mason's subscribers started an avalanche of negative Yelp and Google reviews of her husband's company. Yelp has since locked down the page.
Displaying the type of hysterical tone-deafness and the stunning lack of self-awareness that defines social-justice whiners these days, Keller-Burns and her husband insist that Keller-Burns' attempt to destroy a man's life and take away his job – because she disagreed with him about feminism – has "nothing to do" with their business. The negative Yelp and Google reviews say otherwise, as does the screaming from Keller-Burns and her spouse over how unfair it is that they've been targeted economically (after targeting someone economically).
Keller-Burns claims she apologized to Mason, but the apology was one of those "sorry, not sorry" affairs. It's obvious from the tone of the local news article about her business woes that she's not the least bit contrite. She, like all libs and SJWs, hates your freedom of speech. She, like all libs and SJWs, wants to silence speech she does not like. It was just her misfortune, this time, to pick on someone who was capable of fighting back.
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