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[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

Frank Iero

• 15:41:21: @mynameislorena I can't, diablo wrote that
• 15:43:10: Haha RT @seriouscreep: uhhh just saw a girl post the phrase " twiggaz" to describe her tweet niggaz. GENIUS!
• 18:33:10: @thewrongshoes judges?....um sorry the judges are saying not racist, because it ended in the friendly -A and not the racist suffix -ER.
• 21:23:12: @x_muffingirl that was actually a message for you from your mom, she also sez pick your socks up off the floor! We were hoping u saw it phew
• 21:27:36: @thewrongshoes you are an annoying simpleton, i bet you tell people its not the heat its the humidity. I take pleasure in blocking you.

Mikey Way

• 16:16:36: @Gofackadawg I want to swim in a pool of power aid slush into a French fried waterfall
• 16:41:51: Congrats to the debiaks once again!! RT @marcdebiak: Baby Watch 2009 update: Samuel Joseph Debiak. 7lbs 13oz. 4:01pm.
• 20:17:01: "Uncle Touchy's naked puzzle basement"
• 20:41:47: Sister i'm-ahhhhhh.....http://bit.ly/rVLKB
• 20:43:03: @gerardway hahahahah thanks for the cd, i definately had to pause a few times because i was "LOLing" so much

Gerard Way

20:17:43: @mikeyway Ha!


Note: Some of these tweets are potentially triggery for racist language. Please proceed with caution. We apologize for the incredibly late note.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/rayla_/]

Aren't racial slurs just hilarious?

[jazzy.livejournal.com]

this.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

I was actually talking about the annoying simpleton reply, but if you want...
Racism is just another form of hate, if it wasn't for that, people would hate each other for something else. Hell, just a few days ago, he was dissing a girl for having long hair. *shrug* I will not be crying myself to sleep over his use of one word or another.

[http://users.livejournal.com/rayla_/]

...

[loreleilynn.livejournal.com]

Uhm.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

...seriously?

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

With less of an attitude, but yes. (http://community.livejournal.com/tothetune/14842.html?thread=57082#t57082)

[(Anonymous)]

Look. What he said or retweeted or whatever was not cool on any level, it doesn't matter what you think about people hating people. It was ignorant and it needs to be called out. It doesn't matter how much you love the person, and I do love Frank, it's not okay to stand for their fuckups.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't particularly love Frank, I think he can be a total dick, the thing with the girl a few days ago made me wanna slap him, seriously.
I don't wanna be all "omg this is what happened to me" but I think I should explain. I live in a country drenched in post-war hate and hate-language is something I hear on daily basis. I don't use those words, but I pick my battles now. I'm still trying to explain to people -close- to me that saying "fa**ots are sick but that's ok, we shouldn't kill them or anything" actually ISN'T a positive statement. I apologize that my attitude offends you all, it's a hard earned defense mechanism.

On the other hand, if you all can get him to think twice about why saying that is wrong, that's awesome, really.

[(Anonymous)]

why are you still in this fandom?

[http://users.livejournal.com/rayla_/]

I like the free boiled sweets. Why the tiny font?

[vamp-seamstress.livejournal.com]

I'm in it for the air miles.

[(Anonymous)]

What does that have to do with her point?

[(Anonymous)]

lol trying to derail the point with your grudge.

[(Anonymous)]

I took it as both Frank and seriouscreep mocking the people who were using the racial slurs but apparently that wasn't how other people took it. idk.

[(Anonymous)]

i took it that way, too.

[(Anonymous)]

That's how I took it as well but I think the safest bet is to say it was innappropriate and ignorant and shouldn't have been said in the first place. That's just the bottom line, get a filter, Frank.

[(Anonymous)]

It could have been taken that way it he hadn't tried to excuse it with, 'Oh, but it wasn't with 'er' at the end, lololol'.

[(Anonymous)]

The use of "friendly" makes me think he was still being sarcastic but you can certainly read it as completely serious/not mocking racism. It's totally fair. Either way I think it was bad and stupid and shouldn't have been said.

[(Anonymous)]

Or 'Yes and the people who I was just mocking for being racist aren't racist because they used the -a ending.'

[yekith.livejournal.com]

I took it that way too. I did a twitter research. LOTS of black people are using the word 'twigga' to greet their followers or when they say good night to them all. I searched the word in twitter and a lot came up, they all had display pics and they were black people. So most probably, this person who seriouscreep saw using the word was black and she just found the twitter-variation funny -so do I, I find it funny that peopel are adapting lots of words to twitter. SHE said it was genius, not Frank. Frank only retwitted it and said 'haha', which having seen other of his twits with the same reply, most probably doesn't mean he found it exactly HILARIOUS, it's more like mockery. A 'ha ha, how funny'.

I find it wrong to practically call someone racist for something so simple and that you don't know the details of. And the word 'nigga' IS used among black people like 'mate' or 'buddy' That's what I've seen and heard, I'm not saying I know much about the reason why they do so, but there seem to be a different to them between that way of the word and the one ending in 'er'.

If someone had implied I was racist just by retwitting something that called my attention, I'd be mad too.

And no, I don't agree with or like everything the guys do, but so far I've seen fans being a LOT more rude and disrespectful to Frank than the other way round. And that particular twit wasn't soemthing to jump on him for.

My opinion.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

difference* and just for retwitting*

And...one thing is to tell him 'you should have thought better before retwitting that, some people could find it offensive and a different one to make a HUGE deal out of it and scream RACIST.

Please...

[(Anonymous)]

You should probably shut up.

[jubella.livejournal.com]

Despite all of those implications that you present, what Frank said was racist no matter how much you try to excuse it. So. Stop making excuses.

[(Anonymous)]

That was how I read it - but sarcasm is always hard to read in text, especially in a medium like twitter.