Katherine Timpf: No Apology for Star Wars Joke | National Review Online
by Katherine Timpf November 24, 2015
More than a month ago, I made some jokes about Star Wars on Red Eye, a satirical political comedy show that airs at 3 a.m., and it has resulted in me being verbally abused and told to die by a mob of enraged fans for the past four days now.
The capital-offense comments were:
“I have never had any interest in watching space nerds poke each other with their little space nerd sticks, and I’m not going to start now.”
And:
“Yesterday I tweeted something, and all I said was that I wasn’t familiar with Star Wars because I’ve been too busy liking cool things and being attractive.”
Now, I received a few death threats right after I posted the aforementioned tweet — which, by the way, was why I was saying Star Wars fans were “crazy” in the first place. Overall, though, it wasn’t a big deal, and I kind of forgot about it.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427560/star-wars-joke-no-apology-katherine-timpf?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral
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