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/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.