Posted on 11/03/2013 9:57:12 AM PST by rickmichaels
If you were offended by the two Florida men who celebrated Halloween by dressing up as George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, complete with blackface and blood-stained hoodie, you haven't met Alicia Ann Lynch.
The 22-year-old Michigan native thought it would be a good idea to "go" as a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing so she tweeted and Instagrammed a photograph of herself dressed as runner sporting fake scars and blood. And a big smile.
If one could hear the rage that Lynch's actions generated from the online world, it would best be described as deafening.
Lynch, who has since deactivated her social media accounts, received venomous abuse and had her life threatened.
On buzzfeed.com, the site that reported the story, one person wrote: "People at the Boston Marathon died in terror and agony... and you looked at the images and thought 'lol funny costume idea'?"
Things got uglier after some users discovered that Lynch had once posted a photo of her driver's licence.
Some contacted her family and some circulated nude photos and videos of her they found of her on tumblr.
Lynch reopened her Twitter account briefly to apologize and tweeted: "I have been fired from my job. I am paying for what I thought was a simple joke. I know it was wrong now. I wasn't thinking."
Lynch's Twitter handle?
SomeSKANKinMI
Crude, but what difference does it make?
She posted a pic of her drivers license??
Some contacted her family and some circulated nude photos and videos of her they found of her on tumblr.
Yes, she has had judgement and discernment problems for a long time I guess.
Oooh. She got her period during the race!
Yep... again bad judgement.
She’s obviously made a lot of stupid choices and collected a lot of stupid prizes.
At least she’s admitted to her stupidity. Maybe there’s hope for her.
I thought this society stopped drawing lines a while ago. It’s amazing to me how much time and effort people hundreds or thousands of miles away from this young woman will spend to hurt her because they took offense to something they didn’t even witness.
Technology has made communication too easy to hurt people. We should have a five day waiting period before exercising your first amendment rights to speech - a cooling off period, if you will.
Wow. Bet her former employer is happy this trainwreck is no longer on the payroll. Scary dumb.
*
then there is the lovable Bill Maher and his homage to Steve Irwin (sarc off)
She’s very ‘of the times’. This is in keeping with modern America.
Looks like Kathy Griffin without makeup.
Halloween has always been part social catharsis. People dress up as things that scare us, or ‘offend’ us.
This costume is at least a couple of years before it’s time (the wounds are still open); but, it’s certainly not over-the-top, as costumes go.
(I left my asbestos suit at the cleaners, so please don’t flame me. I’m just providing a little perspective.)
A proper costume would look more like this:
Having just plucked two rusty roofing nails from his stomach, James Costello staggers toward any help he can find, his ears ringing and his body sprayed with shrapnel. |
He ended up spending two weeks in Mass General, where he got to meet Dumbo, followed by two more weeks of in-patient therapy at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. He needed extensive pig skin grafts on his arm and a leg.
What a callous creature.
and Kathy Griffin looks like every leftist skank I ever knew.
One year, my son went to Halloween as Walt Disney’s frozen head.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.