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thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ms. Normative America

Perhaps, but I actually dug in to some of them and they were real people. One was a highschool kid that acted all tough and defiant at first but then started to half apologize, "it was just a joke" and eventually seemed genuinely afraid for himself. The mob had made him the most hated twitterer of the moment. I could see the pageant sending out emails to "go to her defense" to media outlets, asking them to pick up the story etc. Fanning the flames of outrage to their advantage.