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07-20-2016, 08:52 PM
Original Ghostbuster says Leslie Jones' trolls are 'active Klan members,' 'insignificant gnats'
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An original Ghostbusters star has Leslie Jones' back.*
After Jones spent a day showing Twitter the racist abuse she receives online, Dan Aykroyd, who starred in the original movie and helped produce the new version starring Jones, weighed in.*
SEE ALSO: Leslie Jones fights back against racist trolls on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/07/18/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-twitter/)
"These people, first of all, they're insignificant gnats," Aykroyd said to Entertainment Tonight Canada (http://www.etonline.com/news/193623_dan_aykroyd_slams_leslie_jones_racist_twitt er_haters/). "They have ** lives of their own, they can barely pay for the wi-fi they're using, probably ** jobs. I would say you're looking at obese white men between 50 and 60, who are active Klan members or members of the Aryan Nation, and there are millions of them." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/dan-aykroyd-leslie-jones-ghostbusters-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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An original Ghostbusters star has Leslie Jones' back.*
After Jones spent a day showing Twitter the racist abuse she receives online, Dan Aykroyd, who starred in the original movie and helped produce the new version starring Jones, weighed in.*
SEE ALSO: Leslie Jones fights back against racist trolls on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/07/18/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-twitter/)
"These people, first of all, they're insignificant gnats," Aykroyd said to Entertainment Tonight Canada (http://www.etonline.com/news/193623_dan_aykroyd_slams_leslie_jones_racist_twitt er_haters/). "They have ** lives of their own, they can barely pay for the wi-fi they're using, probably ** jobs. I would say you're looking at obese white men between 50 and 60, who are active Klan members or members of the Aryan Nation, and there are millions of them." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/dan-aykroyd-leslie-jones-ghostbusters-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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