On Thursday night’s Late Night, Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones joined Seth Meyers to offer her take on the torrent of racist hate she encountered via Twitter on Monday, as well as her decision to (temporarily) leave the social media site. “Unfortunately I’m used to the insults,” she said. “What scared me was the … gang of people, jumping against you for such a sick cause.”
Jones explained that her choice to publicize the horrific comments was necessary on multiple levels, saying “If I hadn’t said anything, no one would ever know about this.” Indeed, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey—“just Jack!,” Jones quipped—moved to permanently remove instigator Milo Yiannopoulos from the platform after being called out for not protecting his users. And in response to the circulating claim that Twitter was preventing “freedom of speech” by banning people, Jones shot back: “Hate speech and freedom of speech? Two different things.”
