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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

[(Anonymous)]

Frank may have been retweeting, but he obviously found it funny enough to retweet in the first place. And if, as you say, his intent was to mock, I don't see how that's any better. In fact, I would consider it a hell of a lot worse.

It is, in fact, racist for a white person to use nigger, or any variation of the word, to refer to a black person, regardless of whether or not black people are using that word themselves. Many of them are using the word to reclaim it - you cannot reclaim a word that has never been applied to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

the thing is, I think they were mocking the twitter-ization of the word, not the word itself.

[(Anonymous)]

It really doesn't matter at this point. Even if we don't actually know what they were talking about, we found it offensive and problematic. So when someone tells you "this is offensive" "this is racist" you need to step back and accept the criticism. You (a general you, not you specifically) need to step back, think about how that could be percieved wrong and apologize. This is not an easy thing to do, I know from experience, but it's the right thing to do.

The burden is on Frank to make it right and to contemplate the implications of what he said or his friend said.

[jubella.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter what they were doing. Saying that certain black people didn't find the tweet to be offensive doesn't matter, either. (I can say that as a black person that I found it offensive, and I am a pretty invested MCR and Frank fan.) Like the anon said above, a white person shouldn't be using the word in the first place, no matter if it was a joke or not. It had racist undertones and Frank should be called on it.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Called on it, sure. Automatically called a racist? Uh...

[jubella.livejournal.com]

I didn't call him a racist. See my comment upthread.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

No no, I didn't mean YOU, but that person in twitter and many other did. And I find that rather wrong too...

[(Anonymous)]

I can say that as a black person that I found it offensive, and I am a pretty invested MCR and Frank fan

Same.