A fruitloop 'Karen' gets her just deserts.

A fruitloop 'Karen' gets her just deserts.

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Red Devil

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Red Devil

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13,067 posts

209 months

Tuesday 7th July 2020
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dukeboy749r said:
ben5575 said:
ReallyReallyGood said:
JagLover said:
I'm not defending what she did. Just querying the relish with which some seem to want her life destroyed.

What is an adequate punishment in their eyes?

Losing her job and struggling to get another professional job due to notoriety?
Losing her dog, which was the reason for the dispute?
Driven to suicide?
Welcome to social media and mob justice. It's a problem for sure, but IMO this is not the hill I'd fight my battle on.
If you fancy delving a little deeper in to this topic, the 'So you've been publicly shamed' podcast is quite good.

Several examples/interviews including the woman who made that off the cuff tweet whilst on a flight to Africa from a few years ago. (This one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/pr-e...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h3hhp/episodes...

I appreciate that Jon Ronson may not fit the PH profile though laugh
I'd never heard of the lady and that particular tweet - but blimey! If you post something that in hindsight you might think - I wonder if this will be taken literally? and so delete it, but didn't.

The world must have felt liked it just ended for her that day
I hadn't heard of her either. The Grauniad link doesn't work.
This one provides a reasonably balanced view - https://uproxx.com/viral/what-happened-to-justine-...
Users of social media ought to heed this advice - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-si...