MrSquished
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- Jan 14, 2013
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Meh I don’t consider that a good thing. People do stupid stuff. Everyone. You. Me. Everyone in this thread. Everyone on this planet. With social media it just takes one stupid remark to end a person. That's not a new thing in and of itself, but it what is new is that we now carry around the ability to broadcast that stupid remark to the entire world in our pockets every minute of every day.
You don’t see who they really are from one tweet. One little blip of 144 characters doesn’t give you any sense of who that is as a person. But that one tweet is all it takes.
And I’d be cautious of thinking it’s the best friend of the black community. They aren’t immune from doing stupid stuff. If an employer wants to (and they definitely will) get a quick look of somebody before they hire where do they go? Their social media accounts. Google search. Boom there it is, all kinds of stupid stuff or n words or pics partying or whatever it may be. Skip.
Roseanne has a history of fucked up tweets, including another one comparing ape like things to a black woman.