Last night someone posted something offensive and it went viral. It was a tasteless, rude, offensive, and utterly unfunny “joke” about rape. It was supposed to be ironic, but missed the mark. Prom anyone? pic.twitter.com/pJ8IhXbcX2 — Beau Mîller (@Swerveodactyl) April 11, 2014 While ten years ago, Beau Miller’s tasteless and vulgar “joke” might have been viewed a couple of times on Myspace before fading away, the internet is a different place today. Specifically, the internet is a place where one quote can be taken and broadcasted across all sorts of channels, gaining traction, outrage, and death-threats. Yes, this was a stupid and vulgar thing to post. But so are the rest of his 20K tweets (ranging from uneventful to equally offensive) and really, it was only a matter of time until something that kid (and I’m saying “kid” because this boy is a junior in high school) wrote went viral for all the wrong reasons. And let’s not, for a single minute, pretend he is the only one posting tasteless and offensive things on the internet. “Rape culture” is a real problem. He “warned” his followers that he was about to post a very distasteful picture a couple of minutes [...]
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