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Unpopular opinion: I used to think the guy who got fired over that joke tweet deserved it, then I read the actual thread
Three years ago when that whole mess went down with the guy in Ohio who lost his job over a dumb joke about a plane, I was pretty much on the side of the company. Then two weeks ago I actually went back and read his full tweet thread in context instead of just the screenshot everyone was passing around, and honestly the whole thing reads way different. There was no threat, no target, just a bad bit that didn't land, and 40,000 quote tweets later his life was wrecked. I'm not saying every firing is unfair but this one changed how I look at the pile-ons. Has anyone else gone back and re-read one of these viral cancellation cases and come out feeling completely different about it?
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blair_nguyen6d ago
The screenshot everyone passed around is the whole problem. Context gets cut and the joke becomes the crime.
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