Trolls Come For Debra Messing Following Her Message To Ivanka Trump

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On Saturday night, actress and LGBTQ advocate Debra Messing received the Excellence in Media Award at the annual GLAAD Media Awards and used her time on stage to make a โ€œdirect appealโ€ to Ivanka Trump.

She delivered a powerful speech, telling the first daughter, โ€œitโ€™s not enough to simply say that womenโ€™s issues are important to you. Itโ€™s time to do something.โ€

In the hours after her speech, both Messing and GLAAD were subject to attacks from Twitter Trolls who were unhappy with her choice of words.

The video of Messingโ€™s acceptance speech, which had over 350,000 views on YouTube as of Monday morning, also has triple the number of โ€œdislikesโ€ compared to โ€œlikes,โ€ which GLAAD attributes to a coordinated attack from online trolls. GLAAD is asking supporters to go and โ€œlikeโ€ the video on YouTube.

โ€œAs the alt-right dogpiles on this video, Messingโ€™s important message of unity is reaching people who need it most,โ€ Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President and CEO, said in a statement. โ€œPlus, the fair-minded Americans who are commenting on Messingโ€™s GLAAD video are reminding the world that the resistance is louder.โ€

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