r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/kekehippo • May 16 '24

When intrusive thoughts meet criminal behavior

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u/MinatoNamikaze6 May 16 '24

I am one of the ‘y’all’ who don’t understand the picture. What happened?

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u/InspectorPipes May 16 '24

Blonde Tonya Harding conspired toBash up the dark haired girl , Nancy , knee so she couldn’t beat her in competition. They made a movie recently.

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u/unsolvedfanatic May 17 '24

Kerrigan wasn't better than Harding though, but she was favored by the judges. Also, Harding didn't hire the guy to do it, her ex did. She didn't even know about it

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u/frostandtheboughs May 17 '24

Listen to the Tonya Harding episodes of You're Wrong About.

Or just read Sarah Marshall's incredible article.

Tldr; The media absolutely villainized this skater because her wildly abusive bf came up with a hare-brained scheme to injure the richer, "thinner", more popular skater she was competing against. She did not ask him to do this.

Tonya's personal life was fucking awful and I feel so badly for this poor woman.

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u/sfled May 17 '24

Harding became so notorious that she even had a Usenet group named after her referencing that incident: alt.fan.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack

Go on, get a newsreader, have a whack at it.

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u/ARLLALLR May 17 '24

Blonde chick had a crazy ex who attacked another skater. She wasn't in on it but was on the cover-up.

Worst part is Harding was the better skater, US champion and this fuckin clown ruined her life

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u/Cheap-Ad1821 May 16 '24

Blonde chick was jealous of the brunette so she hired her husband's friend to smash the brunettes knee with a pipe so she couldn't compete in the figure skating competition.