{"id":33695,"date":"2015-11-25T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33695"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:52:10","slug":"national-reviews-katherine-timpf-will-not-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/national-reviews-katherine-timpf-will-not-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>National Review<\/em>&#8216;s Katherine Timpf will not apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, she&#8217;s not planning on apologizing for making a few (not-even-PG-rated) jokes about <em>Star Wars<\/em>. Her critics, in addition to pouring scorn and hatred on her for daring to joke about such a holy topic, also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427560\/star-wars-joke-no-apology-katherine-timpf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>threaten her life<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, I received a few death threats right after I posted the aforementioned tweet \u2014 which, by the way, was why I was saying <em>Star Wars <\/em>fans were \u201ccrazy\u201d in the first place. Overall, though, it wasn\u2019t a big deal, and I kind of forgot about it. <\/p>\n<p>Then, this week, one <em>Star Wars<\/em> super-super-super fan who calls himself \u201cAlphaOmegaSin\u201d made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nU9HFQhq8aM\" target=\"_blank\">ten-minute (!) video<\/a> brutally ripping me apart. <\/p>\n<p>The YouTube comments on his manifesto were even better. You know, stuff like: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>justin 12 hours ago<br \/>Maybe a SW nerd needs to sneak into her dark room, dressed like her bf, rape her, but she doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s rape because she thinks it\u2019s her BF. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>needmypunk 16 hours ago <br \/>I hope she gets acid thrown in her pretty little face. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>sdgaara2 1 day ago <br \/>Wouldn\u2019t it be great if she was beaten to death with \u201cspace nerd sticks\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian978 22 hours ago <br \/>I want to cut that blonde c***\u2019s face off and stick it to a thermal detonator. What a network full of c***s. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>dethklok21 1 day ago <br \/>Wow what a f***ing thunder c***. I hope this b**** gets hit by a f***ing car. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mikki Yeong 1 day ago <br \/>those death treaths are approved by me look at that b**** it\u2019s a typical i wear big glasses to look smart but in fact i\u2019m stupid as f*** btwthose glasses used to be only weared by nerds stupid h** <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TheValefor1984 1 day ago <br \/>We should get her address then bury her a** in Star Wars memorabilia lol <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TheGreenStreak452 1 day ago <br \/>I just want to burn Fox News to the ground and all their stupid employees. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Asterisks not in the original.] <\/p>\n<p>To be fair, AlphaOmegaSin did say that he denounced threats on my life because \u201cJust because you\u2019re a f***ing idiot doesn\u2019t mean that you should have to die.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A problem with being a free speech absolutist is that you have to accept that some members of the community are going to use it to be as grotesquely offensive as they possibly can. Way to live down to expectations, <em>Star Wars<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, she&#8217;s not planning on apologizing for making a few (not-even-PG-rated) jokes about Star Wars. Her critics, in addition to pouring scorn and hatred on her for daring to joke about such a holy topic, also threaten her life: Now, I received a few death threats right after I posted the aforementioned tweet \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[86,186,122,238,193,481],"class_list":["post-33695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-movies","tag-offensensitivity","tag-starwars","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33699,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695\/revisions\/33699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}