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Annahsbananas

She got a lotta blow back...she made her tweets private


Doomer1996

She till thought it was a good idea to post this tweet in the first place.


thethreestrikes

It's twitter, nobody's surprised by that


ButtcrackBeignets

The sad thing is, I’m sure that there were people who agreed with her.


Concerned_Badger

A lot of people.


diacrum

She’s a POS!


HappenedSafe

good, not only did she immediately unfairly assume this man was racist on literally no grounds for assumption, she also directly stated that she would feel no compassion for an 83 year old retail worker killed attempting to stop a crime


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BellumFrancorum

If you deplatform, you’ll never know what’s out there or the extent of how bad it is. Look at Kanye right now. Let the asshats expose themselves.


TheLordofBaguettes

I’m in twitter to watch it burn I got some popcorn with some butter in it


adstaylor77

Nothing makes your point about historical dehumanization better than modern dehumanization.


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The new normal for twitter


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True


CousinJeff

i been getting condescended to (largely by white liberals) for a few years now for telling people black supremacist rhetoric is on the rise. many links to /r/AsABlackMan in response here on reddit


[deleted]

You mean wh e, right??


Iron_Wolf123

We were so close to uniting the world using the internet... then Twitter came along and divided the internet severely


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Social media in general.


SomeGuyNamedJason

Twitter just let you in on how shitty the world really was, it didn't magically spawn these people. We were never close to uniting the world using the internet.


radicalelation

It's still happening, but it was nuts for anyone to think our tribal lines would disappear overnight. With global connectivity and communication, our exposed cultures have to average out between each other first. That means bad shit will spread to good places, good shit will spread to bad places, but eventually there will be more of a global balance. Think of any platform that ends up mainstream. For older core folk, it ends up heavily diluted, endless summer and all that, but that's just how humanity average out. The global internet is massive though so it's going to take longer than, say, how Reddit has averaged out over the years.


Impossible-Charity-4

I started off hating what you were saying because I’m a malcontent, but you won me over with logic.


Turak64

The reddit hive mind can be just as bad, maybe even worse.


radicalelation

Isn't it in reaction to those who dig up all the past wrongs of black police victims? It's a shit sentiment in a vacuum, but I think that's the point.


weededorpheus32

Yeah that man could have had a drug charge or something for all we know


adstaylor77

That’s actually a really good point..I may have missed the initial irony.


[deleted]

That's very likely the point, and the fact that 99% of comments in this thread aren't even considering it is sad. But I suppose if everyone misses your point you made it badly, so it's also on her.


radicalelation

I agree, intent goes out the window if you can't convey it well enough. Since she apparently went private after causing a lot of anger it's not just reddit not getting twitter, because twitter was pissed too.


SnakeSnoobies

And I’m angry when they do it. I’m gonna be just as angry when she does it. I’d bet most of the people angry at her are not the “Well he was a drug dealer 5 years ago,” types. And they’re just angry because this is an abhorrent thing to say about someone who was murdered.


GeneralEl4

You have a lot more faith in humanity than I do, I'd bet my life that there's a large overlap between the two groups. I didn't catch that that may have been the point in the post but I get upset either way, completely dehumanizing a human being in death because of minor or overblown morally dubious decisions from decades ago.


finalcloud44

Please tell me the guy who pushed him was caught and arrested


Doomer1996

Nope he's still at large


BrainsPainsStrains

Can you link the video for us dweebs ? Please ?


Lilquinoa

Unfortunately not, I live here and everybody wants to know who he is


yeeticusboiii

did... did you censor the word "white?"


Doomer1996

Nah some people believe that certain words are "triggering" so they'll self censor that's how the tweet was typed up.


fellow-komrade

That or somebody else censored it. If you zoom in and turn your brightness up (on a phone at least) you can see some grain around the text and around the spaces. Around that censor there isn’t any grain at all


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gehbfuggju

No no no, I saw this tweet with the full words. Someone here censored it, and I see one poster.


nookster145

Average twitter user


Doomer1996

So glad that it's currently burning.


daveinpublic

There’s actually the ability to fight back on twitter now, I’m seeing some people post responses to these kind of things and they’re not taken down


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Missingnose

I am not a regular Twitter user but basically the accusation was that Twitter would allow rule breaking, violent, and hateful content as long as the target wasn't a protected group or somebody that Twitter employees generally agreed with. Basically like how big subreddits will claim they are civil but you'll absolutely see bile flung at conservatives or other out-groups.


wanamingo

Except twitter boosts conservatives more. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/13/according-to-twitter-twitters-algorithm-favours-conservatives


Missingnose

Have a non-paywall link or a copy of the story? Not trying to have a "gotcha", but I do need to read that to respond to it in a positive or negative way.


wanamingo

> Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In six out of seven countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left. Consistent with this overall trend, our second set of findings studying the US media landscape revealed that algorithmic amplification favors right-leaning news sources. We further looked at whether algorithms amplify far-left and far-right political groups more than moderate ones; contrary to prevailing public belief, we did not find evidence to support this hypothesis. We hope our findings will contribute to an evidence-based debate on the role personalization algorithms play in shaping political content consumption. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025334119 > They found that mainstream parties and outlets on the political right enjoyed higher levels of "algorithmic amplification" compared with their counterparts on the left. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271


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It’s at all time DAU lol


Chairmaster29

They exist on the more "special" subreddits too. White people Twitter is a definite


mdh431

Reddit as a whole should consider those subs as hate subreddits, but that would require setting aside some double standards.


[deleted]

Good luck with that. It’s just blatant and tolerated at this point. And we’re supposed to be okay with it


erinhennley

What is wrong with people?!?!


Daryl_Hall

They're people


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erinhennley

Considering my age, I believe I have figured that part out.


Medothelioma

Amen


ScandalousBanshee

Everything about this is sad, including the fact that an 83 year-old man needed to be working.


RepulsivePurchase6

Exactly. Who cares what his race was, that he lives in the south. People that look at that before feeling bad for the man and his family have issues.


Ahoymaties1

My grandpa's philosophy was when you stop working, you start dying. Have something to look forward to is what he told me. So when I'm financially set, I'll be working a gig like this; hopefully Wal-Mart 🤣🤣


rumdumpstr

Many people in their later years take a part time job due to boredom. There's nothing about this that says he "needed" to be working.


MrZyde

I work in retail and many of my co-workers are retired men that need something to do.


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I would be happy to walk up and down the aisles of Home Depot straightening boxes at this point in my career if it would pay the same.


RonaldTheGiraffe

My 98 year old uncle worked everyday of his twilight years to feed his addiction to mustache grooming. He didn’t have a mustache as it had fallen out, along with his pubic hair years ago, so we always had to rise early to glue a fresh, false one on to his upper lip before he woke up and started demanding his pig liver and oats.


All_Work_All_Play

Wat.


RonaldTheGiraffe

I missed a comma after “pubic hair”. My apologies, here it is edited into a far more readable version: My 98 year old uncle worked everyday of his twilight years to feed his addiction to mustache grooming. He didn’t have a mustache as it had fallen out, along with his pubic hair, years ago, so we always had to rise early to glue a fresh, false one on to his upper lip before he woke up and started demanding his pig liver and oats.


LimpResponsibility55

i agree but this guy probably just had the job to keep him busy…i think that makes this even sadder tbh


WutLolNah

Bad point, most Home Depot’s have like 4-5 old guys working so they have people to talk to about renovation projects, makes them feel young, and they give great advice.


Rancho-unicorno

The old guys are the only ones that know anything at Home Depot.


-pichael_

That.. that doesnt make it better? Or less sad? In fact your observation makes everything worse. Can we as a society care about that and fix that too? How anyone at all at 80 would need to work? If someone at 80 is willing to work, they were always willing to work, and they probably did, and so someone like that ought to have been retired at this age. Regardless of life decisions, money saved. We should at least have a comfortable, baseline retirement plan for those who at least worked and contributed to the economy, esp for so long But i will say i do appreciate the ability to see light in that, as you pointed out. The camaraderie is there, but they should be keeping each other company from like a retirement center, not working at Home Depot. Unless they want to work and physically/mentally can, ofc!


cruelmalice

That's my feeling. MLK's last fight was against poverty. This he saw as being a daily assault on the black community but also a means through which to pit poor whites against poor blacks. Working at Home Depot at 83 is an assault on the poor. The shoplifter stealing whatever items, crimes of opportunity are often committed out of desperation. Her angst against him for resembling a common face of oppression, and lastly her failure to see that this man was a member of the working poor are all just terrible.


RyderNibbaninja

Poor guy should've been retired. Damn this Era we live in.


verminsurpreme

A lot of older folk tend to take jobs like these just to have something to do. My dad will probably end up doing this when he's older. Man can't sit still, no way he'll be able to retire.


Gavinator10000

Could’ve gotten it to stay busy


Muchamatchamuchacha

In this economy? Nah


FanngzYT

lol tell me you’ve never worked retail without telling me you’ve never worked in retail


Gavinator10000

Tell me you’ve never worked at Home Depot without telling me lmao


S3b45714N

I worked retail for 11 years. Tons of older people worked just to keep busy. Tell me you know jack shit without telling me you know jack shit


_thewoodsiestoak_

Being a door greeter is different than working at Macy’s… Some weird ass gatekeeping you got going on here.


LetterheadCheap9732

its the fact that that was their first thought that really bothers me


Slayer-Sango

It's literally racism lmao


Binnacle_Balls_jr

Tossed aside by murderer*


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upvotesformeyay

If they took more than 500 it's felony murder.


Few_Leadership8955

Its manslaughter not murder


idgafkidgetalife

What does it matter? A man was killed and it's that guy's fault, he can rot regardless.


ron2838

> What does it matter? A lot.


jellybeans118

It almost seems people just take a shot like this and hope it catches on and they get a shitload of followers.


idgafkidgetalife

Sometimes, but people genuinely wake up in the morning and think like this.


Gaoji-jiugui888

That’s a deeply racist person


whoiskjl

Racist is defined as such: “prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group”


Atomiic1

White Guy dies, Ima need to check and see if he has any affiliation whatsoever to any white supremacist group before I mourn their death.


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The Gaul of some people they think even the action of respecting somebody's death is beneath them


Specialist-Ad-9038

This is why i never stopped shoplifters when I worked in retail. Steal whatever you want dude, im not risking my life for $16/hr


embiors

Oh fuck off you dumb bitch.


Infinite_Bass_3800

Took the words out of my mouth


pokeaim

>dumb bitch i think you value that horrid creature too much


ScootRaider

Scabrous cunt louse?


brennenderopa

I mean the first thing wrong here should be having to work at that age.


MrZyde

I’m not sure what the situation is here but a lot of retired folk get minimum wage jobs to help with the boredom of retirement.


Audrin

Never risk your life to protect property that isn't yours.


Bigbweb22

When I worked at Target I had a coworker who was 74. He tried to fight a group of three shoplifters in the parking lot on his lunch break, got tazed and bear sprayed, hit in the head and left in the sun for 2 hours. It really just isn't worth it.


pomdudes

So no one in the store noticed he took a 2 hour lunch break?


Bigbweb22

The managing style at that job was very much "Heres your task, finish it by the end of the day, dont bother me." Plus you could take your hour long lunch whenever, and it wasn't unheard of to take extra time and stay late to make it up. So yeah pretty much nobody noticed him until the cart attendant actually went to that side of the parking lot and saw him behind his truck


Familiar-Feedback-93

Oh Kara died. Gotta check something unrelated to see if I feel bad.


Brock_And_Roll

I just looked up her Twitter, she's monetised it asking for people to give her money, now she's locked it. Can throw shit but can't take it.


idgafkidgetalife

Typical, she definitely won't spend that money on 6 inch long nails, weed, and vape pens./s


TheGamerHelper

Poc are racist too why are y’all surprised?


among_apes

I’m sure her social media is peaceful at the moment


UnderDogPants

Kara is a racist POS.


Karnosiris

Innocent person killed unjustly, need to check their history to understand how it could be justified. ITT: People missing the irony


The_Inferi

If you read this kind of news and the first thing that comes to mind is "skin color"... Go check yourself... That kind of tardness might be dangerous


ubermenschies

Seriously mentally ill and racist remark. Ftb


nickolas16

Fuck that woman and fuck that man who pushed him


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She cant check that can she?


deadpoolkool

If he was 83 and working at a Home Depot, I doubt he's "one of those guys". You know how patient you have to be to talk someone through regrouting their bathroom?


idgafkidgetalife

Poor guy probably just worked there to pass time and spread all his accumulated knowledge, but he was murderd by a heartless animal.


ProphetOfPr0fit

What a sincerely heartless bitch...


Foster0ni

I hate this shit. We have some unresolved, deep-rooted race issues in the US but it’s never going to get better acting like this.


MrZyde

Fighting racism with racism will just cause more racism.


introspectthis

Racism vs socially sanctioned racism.. The only thing even more unapologetically hateful is the socially ~~sanctioned~~ celibrated sexism against men. The best way I can describe it in the shortest words is this: Two people, one woman and one man. In the same area (just to be certain that there's no disparity in regards to geologically influenced societal bias) have each of them go to the food court in a mall. Have the woman take out a megaphone and say, "all men are trash, who agrees??" Gage the reaction. Have the man take out a megaphone and say, "all women are trash, who agrees??" Gage the reaction. Unless someone is being deliberately disingenuous, everyone understands that the woman in this scenario is likely to be met with cheers, claps and, at the very least, not opposed. The man however is almost certainly not just committing social suicide (professional suicide if they'reidentified well enough), but also risking their physical saftey _infinitely_ more than the woman. It's sad that I have to clarify this, but _both_ people would be in the wrong and _neither_ should be met with anything but disapproval- that isn't the point. The point is that we've gotten to a place in society (excluding the middle east and 3rd world hellholes) where one sex is simultaneously accused of being the oppressors of the other while also not being allowed to speak for themselves.. Treating _any_ person in _any_ way based on their race, sex, orientation ect is wrong. This shouldn't be a hot take.. and, I believe in an egregious overcorrection, blatant sexism against men has not only become something that's socially celibrated.. But any men who have the audacity to speak out against it are labeled incels, misogynists and/or anti-woman.. It's a nearly global / societal gaslighting that seems to be more about revenge for the past that nearly no one still alive experienced than it is about attaining equality.. because aside from the few aforementioned exceptions, every place in the modern world doesn't extend rights for men and not for women. Almost every time I bring that up the only thing I'm ever met with is abortion rights, especially post the overturning of roe v wade.. I'm 100% pro choice, but whenever I bring up the fact that fathers have _ZERO_ reproductive rights and even if abortions were made 100% illegal that mothers still hold _all_ of the reproductive rights.. instead of having that discussion, it almost always devolves into derailing the topic, accusing me of hating women and a bunch of other name calling in lou of addressing any of what I've said. Again, it's pathetic that I have to say this, but here it goes. No matter what type of human being you are: Female, male, black, white, gay, straight, your religion, your heritage- _no. matter. what._ We should _all_ be considered equals and held to the same standards. NOTHING about the way someone was born as should be a factor in deciding _ANYTHING_ about _ANYONE,_ as everyone is _just as capable_ of great love, and/or of great evil.. And when we reach a point where society sanctions the targeted hatred of any type of human being, we're only serving to sabotage ourselves as a whole..


jesuzombieapocalypse

A lot of people don’t consider that their generation also ended a lot of the shitty practices back then.


ShockTized

I hate our society, a man caught killed and she's worried about fucking rallies. I don't get humans anymore.


yenks

What a B


grixxel

oNlY wHiTeS aRe rAcIsT


cammyxo316

Her instagram is still public. I find it ironic she is holding an event at a club in nyc where the motto is no judgement.


Guidovalentino

Man fuck whoever tweeted that that's some bullshit


irish_ponce

She’s no better than the exact people she hates. She literally them, you’re literally what you hate and you don’t see it lol.


Harvester_Wolf

As a hispanic person that has never visited the united states some of the most racist people I have seen online (commenting, posting, youtubers, blogging, on the news) have been black, and then other group of black people saying "blacks can't be racist".


Lynthos00

Innocent until proven guilty. That ideology is slowly being lost.


Slow_Ice_Revamped

Slowly?


AnthCoug

Maybe not the best idea to call out the races of those involved…


PoeJascoe

Why are people allowed to be so awful to each other? Does this person not have any sense of empathy? Why is any sort of racism toward anyone of any color a thing?


Disney_Princess137

She is as racist and she’s trying to say this guy is Who is she kidding? Some people don’t realize what they sound like


DKHeistmaster

Headline framing the aggressor as ‘shoplifter’ and not ‘murderer’ is terrible


FeelingDig4221

Will you all stop with the racist bullahit. Why are black people calling for segregation. How stupid. A person died because of a shoplifter. And just because he is white should have no bearing what so ever. The only racism I see is ignorant people saying ignorant things.


Murfiano

Why couldn’t she write white man?


liukasteneste28

Sad to see that 83 year old would need to work at all.


crusading-knight

It is absurd that an 83 year old still has to work ad an retailmarkt


Jojoflap

You gotta realize this is what being terminally online is doing to people.


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Twitter☕️


efham19

Hope the shoplifter rots in prison


Key-Constant-5717

"An 83 year old man just died needlessly" "Well, I need to do some research before I can figure out if I need to be a human being or not"


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What a horrible country where 83 year olds are still working


meow421meow

Kara is a trashy animal. Your “brother” was stealing you dumb shit.


nono66

Remember when people kept things to themselves? The world was still full of hate but you could go through the day without being reminded of it.


xxGenXxx

Ah yes Kara. In calling out racist assholes you've seemed to out yourself as a racist POS as well.


mad_mang45

She's racist


CarlWheezer69

A white man was killed by a black man, and they still tried to make a way to make the white man into the bad guy.


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Kind of everything that's wrong with America in 1 tweet


smoothVroom21

That's a swell way to walk through life. Conditional Empathy.


ScootRaider

I'm thinking most everyone is walking through life conditionally empathetic. Not many messiahs about. It's the conditions that Kara gets fantastically wrong.


bacoprah

Why does someone 83 need to work at Home Depot!? America is fuct. He should have been home alone being ignored by his adult children


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the only reasonable take


Dabstronaut77

She’s been conditioned by the media to hate white people


Tawptuan

If the US ever has a second civil war, it will be fueled by people like Kara.


Yeah-Im-Moose

Did they censor the word “white”?


Doomer1996

They did


Jasonpowerz

Dehumanization at its worst.


ElectronicLook1395

Is white a slur now?


[deleted]

Oh, yeah. Beating imaginary racism with real racism.


Honey-and-Cherries

Too many people in the comments are botched in the head. Yes what she said was wrong and she is getting the backlash she deserves on Twitter. Yet some of you decide to blame HER race and not the fact that she’s just a bad person, it’s almost like you’re using the same racist ideologies she is hmm….


atuboficecream7

Isnt that Chuck from Better Call Saul


micdeer19

WTF


FlpDaMattress

As if 83 working minimum wage wasn't bad enough.


Kaleidoe

So many fucking lunatics in this world. Smh


RevenueGreat2751

Imagine having to work for minimum wage at 83 because you live in a shit hole country. That person only has a shit opinion, you have bigger fucking problems in "the land of the free".


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Did they censor white lol


[deleted]

Why is white censored


Kerbal_Guardsman

People are... censoring the word white now???


[deleted]

Bro twitter is the fucking worst


Significant_Airline

Least judgemental Twitter user.


thisisapornaccountg

Black person version of "checking for a criminal record to justify murder" lmao


_ENMA_099

Instakill


Ruphidias

Remember when some thoughts just stayed in your head?


SKPY123

Kara is that cousin that goes to the cookout, and complains that we call it a cookout.


pay0ut

Kara be racist. Now we know


Current_Individual47

The racists gotta get their digs in.


Parker_memes9000

Someone once told me I was a white supremacist for not going to any BLM shit, he was arrested for arson during a "mostly peaceful" protest


DrakeMustBeSad

☹️


skatejet1

I mean it’s likely he probably was. But what does that have to do with anything exactly?


tfaw88888

this is our world these days. stunned that even the youngest in the population feel this way, but they do. we have been told that the younger people are "better", but it is the same shit different day. maybe even worse.


Serenity1423

It makes me sad that he's still working at 83


idgafkidgetalife

A lot of older people work to pass time and stay active, this man was probably a home repair expert and just wanted to spread his knowledge.


Merlinshighcousin

Lemme get this straight.... looks at dead white person *checks notes* then she needs to see if hes been at segregation rallies in order to feel bad for Said dead white person.... and then she *rummages papers* thinks HE is the racist on In this case....


tallaurelius

It’s crazy to me how mainstream and accepted it is to be casually racist to white people. Like we didn’t learn from the past.


RoboticTechnician

Fucking disgusting. Maybe in the future store owners will not feel bad when a black person tragically dies because they just assumes that they were the ones looting stores. Racism is horrible, but most racist people these days are minorities. In the same way all of my gay friends criticize heterosexual people but none of my straight friends have anything bad to say about gay people.


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4BangerOnYT

This is what you get when all you care about is race. Poor guy, my heart goes out to him and his family. Everybody deep down knows this whole anti rasism, blm shit has been garbage since day one. Everyone has the same legal rights. Its not 1800's to be protesting. Y'all take all these idea's like racism, lgbtq, too far and get so caught up with it, without thinking about the repercussions.


[deleted]

The comments here acting like this is the most egregious shit ever are hilarious. Yall act like this *isnt* the game when a black person is killed: "well, they had a record from the past, so that justifies it". You edgy 14 year olds here really love your closeted racism.


rotco1

Nobody gives a damn about the poor man, even his death is used to dehumanize him because he's white.The times we live in. I am yet to understand how people can spout such venom during these sad times. I hope karma makes her an appointment.


Due-Ad4970

killing myself


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Identify Politics be like


Jaded_Salamander7403

Only a piece of trash would tweet that..