thismeintiel said:
I think the most interesting thing is that the guy's "racist" comments actually seem to come from a subreddit called "I'm going to go to hell for this," where people just post crude jokes/memes about sex, race, or whatever. Granted, it's not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to humor, BUT it still means that there is a good chance he isn't actually racist. He may just post stupid shit in that subreddit like many people do, so using that as a justification for what CNN did doesn't really hold up. Granted, even if he was a racist, it still doesn't hold up. Can't punish people for not believing a certain way. As long as he's not out actually hurting/abusing people, there's little reason to attack him. And CNN didn't even care about that stuff, or they would have been tracking down these types of people this whole time. They just wanted to track down and attack the guy who made the gif. |
"I'm going to hell for this" was actually a good place for dark humour until the altright took over. Now it's just a place to be racist/xenophobic/sexist/dickish and use the joke excuse to deflect all criticism
https://www.reddit.com/r/imgoingtohellforthis (Warning: Cringe)
The dude was perfectly fine with being a terrible person. He was obviously racist, and the fact he deleted his entire posts proves he didn't want people to know that.
Saying that however, CNN still made a terrible decision. How about they start spending their time making actual reports?
