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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2017 11:41:07 GMT -5
I took this especially personally. As many of you know, I am a NYCer, and was here on 9/11. That day, I was among those frantically calling friends/colleagues/clients who worked in the towers and immediate neighborhood. Due to phone lines being disrupted, it was days before I knew some were safe.
For weeks, there were fliers up all over the city from friends and family of the dead, hoping against hope their loved ones were alive but unconscious and unidentified in the hospital. They stayed up, thousands of them, until the weather took them down. Nearly all of those missing people had simply been incinerated.
Joking while they are counting bodies -- Christ, no.
ETA:
To note, it wasn't long at all before I and other NYers were making dark jokes about planes, etc. For those of us working in a skyscraper, traveling in a subway, living with the aftermath -- dark jokes were actually a coping method for dealing with the horror and fear.
But time, place, manner, context. This guy was a massive fail on all counts.
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Post by Amadan on May 23, 2017 13:19:19 GMT -5
Back in the good old days, people with bad taste would make jokes about recent tragedies to their friends, who might tell them "Shut up man, WTF is wrong with you?" and they'd be embarrassed briefly and then get on with their life, possibly with slightly improved judgment (or not).
Now, thanks to Twitter, you can share your momentary lapse of judgment instantly and irrevocably with millions of people and wreck your career forever.
We as a society still have really, really not caught up to how much technology and social media changes things. If you ever go to Reddit r/relationships or r/legaladvice (a guilty trainwreck pleasure of mine), one of the most frequent recurring threads is "My boyfriend filmed us having sex, now we broke up and he's threatening to/already has posted it online, what can I do?"
Uh, you can live with the fact that that's going to be out there forever. The Internet does not allow takebacks.
Kids should really be taught this early.
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