The Most Damaging Tweet Ever

Twitter is a platform for out-of-context, extremely condensed texts. Both together is very difficult to handle. And many people just use Twitter when they feel they have a stupid idea, kind of a platform competing for stupid jokes.

Also, if you hear some comment like this in real life, do you set on a quest to destroy that person's life? No, you got your own things to deal with.

In my perception, the US are very hype-driven. Someone from somewhere said something. Everywhere: nothing. US: Media coverage. We have a president that constantly tweets things way worse. Why worse? Because these words matter! The author's "most damaging tweet ever" should not have mattered, to nobody. The most severe consequence should have been the lack of likes.

I find the joke actually hilarious. While being funny in a Ricky Gervais way, it is critical of stereotypical thinking at the same time.

If you want to go deeper and learn a bit more about public shaming (from both sides), I highly recommend Jon Ronson’s book (the audiobook is even better) - ‘And so you’ve been publicly shamed’ which is where a lot for he details in this article are sourced from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You%27ve_Been_Publicly_Sham...

Well I’ve seen worse, but then on Twitter there are those who are extremely politically correct and just see jokes like this as an ‘attack’ or somewhat ‘offensive’ and there are those who see this as: Meh, another silly tweet, who cares.

This probably serves as the blueprint example for SJWs and the like on how to cancel and arrest someone on suspicion of wrong-think or jokes like this which I can imagine that it must be really exhausting and boring for them to do.

Considering all demographics use Twitter and its not really novel that tweeting something idiotic can lead to your censure, why is this on Hacker News?

people should be able to sue the persons involved in ruining their life for a tweet or twitter or any platform should give coverage for free speech, dont like it dont read. simple

Twitter is primarily a dumpster fire.