This Writer’s Response To The Ariana Grande Explosion Is Disgusting
Tragedy struck tonight when an explosion hit the Manchester Arena in the United Kingdom, killing at least nineteen and injuring at least fifty innocents. Pop superstar Ariana Grande was holding a concert tonight, meaning that the audience and the victims are largely teenagers.
Young people are dying, injured, and traumatized amid a chaotic scene with the details still unclear. It should be a time for an outpouring of support and compassion for those affected – unless you are writer David Leavitt, who catapulted himself to infamy with the most heartless take imaginable:
https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/866790014717497345
Honestly, for over a year I thought an Ariana Grande was something you ordered at Starbucks.
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) May 22, 2017
Too soon?
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) May 23, 2017
The internet immediately erupted in fury, flooding him with nearly 18,000 angry replies in a little over an hour. The vast majority of them are far too profane to be published here.
One’s response to tragedy defines you as a person. Some people call for love and compassion; others call for suspicion and accusations.
But the man that starts to make jokes about children at a concert being slaughtered is truly the most despicable of them all.
If you’d like to pile on, here’s his Twitter page.
Here’s the screenshot for when he inevitably deletes it:
