Doctor Venkman wrote:Scum wrote:While I do honestly feel bad for her, that's the kind of abuse you open yourself up to on social media, especially twitter.
If it's any solace to anyone, Leslie Jones probably has more money in the bank than any of us combined. She's a big girl, she'll be fine.
That's honestly a really shitty way of looking at it. So because she has more money than us, she'll be fine with dealing with the racism and abuse? Sorry, but that's an absolutely horrible way to look at it. Is it the worst thing that could happen to her? Absolutely not. But justifying it in any way that she will be "fine" simply because she has money is pretty terrible.
This is not the attitude to have about racism. Don't be indifferent to it because someone has money. It's not acceptable.
I wasn't justifying the abuse by any stretch of the imagination. I've been following this whole fiasco on Twitter, she could have a probably should have just stepped away from the whole thing and let the trolls eat themselves. If you notice, a lot of these super stars barely use their twitter accounts, because they know the more you feed the beast, the more the nut balls come out of the woodwork.
I only brought up the money thing for one reason. She will eat. She will have a roof over her head. She can take a trip to Fiji, throw her phone in the ocean and get away from the nonsense for a month. Whats more important? Hurt feelings or the necessities of human life?
Nowhere in my original post did I justify racism or claim indifference to racism. A fair majority of the tweets send to her were not racially charged. As I said, I followed this debacle from the start.
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