>Or perhaps between feeling unsafe in that you fear that that people will call you names online, versus feeling unsafe in that you fear that people will kill you. reply

OP's links referred to multiple instances of threats of rape/violence. No-one is suggesting that the situation is directly comparable to the situation of journalists in Mexico (OP has clarified that), but let's not use euphemisms like "name calling" or "mean tweets" for threats of rape and violence.

This is a good point. I tried to hedge a bit around the exact distinction, and you're right that I messed it up. Still, there seems to be pretty clearly a real distinction here.

a few times, when I was in high school, a bully yelled at me right in my face and said "you fuckin faggot I'll kill you". I'm not gay, and he wasn't really threatening to kill me.

I’d check the linked articles if I were you. Some of the women were subjected to very coordinated and determined harassment campaigns over a long period. In many cases these campaigns appeared to be coordinated by members of far right groups who are known to use violence. Comparing that situation to your being bullied at school is almost as silly and offensive as the OP’s original comparison. By all means point out that Mexican journalists are in a much worse position that women who are harassed online. Everyone here agrees with that point. But a death threat is a death threat. It’s not “name calling”.

If you know the internet, and how it brings out the worst in people, you'll know that "people calling you names" is a short skip and hop from people doxxing you and sending you assault/death/rape threats.

I don't really know how you're supposed to go about your life normally while receiving death threats from anonymous people. Even if you assume those people are just internet assholes, it's unnerving at the least.