King Kamala
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I got completely ganged up on when I posted something vaguely Kobe passing away related the day after his death. And your observation is spot on, only it was 100% in my case. People I generally agree with 1:1 in social views. Wound up just deleting the post. Once the "R" word gets thrown at someone, regardless of evidence, the accused will never wash that stain off in the eyes of some people. I don't know the answer for how society can respond to things in the news in one direction or the other, but I'm just going to go back to meme spamming jokes on my timeline.Sty Guy Kamala said:99% of the people who were like "But KOBE was a Rapist!" are virtue signaling whites.
Saints_Fan_H said:I got completely ganged up on when I posted something vaguely Kobe passing away related the day after his death. And your observation is spot on, only it was 100% in my case. People I generally agree with 1:1 in social views. Wound up just deleting the post. Once the "R" word gets thrown at someone, regardless of evidence, the accused will never wash that stain off in the eyes of some people. I don't know the answer for how society can respond to things in the news in one direction or the other, but I'm just going to go back to meme spamming jokes on my timeline.Sty Guy Kamala said:99% of the people who were like "But KOBE was a Rapist!" are virtue signaling whites.
alkeiper said:Kobe was flying above Los Angeles in his private helicopter. He seemed to come away from the allegation intact.
I'll preface all this by saying I didn't like Kobe Bryant. He was the 76ers opponent in the 2001 Finals. He always struck me as arrogant and aloof. I acknowledge that I could have been completely wrong on that. We generally don't know who people really are. Then the rape allegation stuff came around and well, of course I knew Kobe was an asshole. This settles it. Like I said, this is all perception.
The rape allegation itself. Victims deserve to be heard. If she believes she was assaulted, then she was assaulted. But I think the world is a little too complicated itself to paint in black and white. Bryant made a mistake. He was obviously not a serial predator. And from what I have read in the aftermath, he seems to have genuinely grown as a person coming out of all that. I'm trying to be as fair as possible. But all the accolades for Kobe as a human being confuse me, to be honest.
Firmino of the 909 said:This is really hard to watch.
Seeing this thread title still puts me in a state of shock.
These pictures happen more times than I care to discuss. Knowing that a friend's husband was photoed beyond crime scene pissed me off, moreso finding out it was a person I used to respect. Then hearing the crash details when my best friend wrecked, at some point in the disbelief/rage phase I remembered the photos that were taken of my friend's husband and realized someone probably took photos of my best friend's corpse roasting on the highway. So yeah, pretty much assume anytime someone of note passes away, some dipshit has their iphone out. Anytime one of us dies in some unusual gory manner, same.