University of Oregon’s Daily Emerald has the story—U of O tight end Colt Lyerla has been using his Twitter feed to push the notion that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was actually “a government conspiracy.”
If you have a half hour you should watch this and enlighten yourself.youtu.be/VrngdgUixYg
— ..::⚡C⚡::.. (@ThaRealCL) March 21, 2013
Naturally he got some pushback from other Twitter users over his opinion, and tweeted the following—which has since been deleted (but recovered by the Daily Emerald):
Regardless, Lyerla continues to stubbornly stand by his opinion with tweets such as this:
My life will never be about status or money. I will never be a mindless drone. And that is what makes me, me.
— ..::⚡C⚡::.. (@ThaRealCL) March 21, 2013
And apparently, so are a few others. COLLEGE KIDS! Go figure.
@anhyzerroc is a real douchebag. The kids were killed by our government so talk shit to them, not @tharealcl
— Hayden Ptacnik (@HoneyBakdHayden) March 21, 2013
IT SHOULD NOT BE NEWS WHEN COLLEGE STUDENTS–ATHLETES OR NOT–SAY STUPID SHIT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
Insert “WAH WAH WAH I know what people should publish and read and what they shouldn’t WAH WAH WAH” comment here.
I don’t know — I think calling the parents of 20 murdered 6-year-olds “liars” is the kind of nasty behavior that should be called out, especially when you live a life of extreme privilege as a top-ranked college athlete.
Plus, this asshole is from Hillsboro, and he’s making my people look bad (/worse).
Yes, his comments are deplorable and yes, someone should put him in his place. However, dude’s a college kid posting stupid things out on Twitter, and it’s only noteworthy because he happens to play the most popular and watched sport at the university.
Were he on the tennis team, no one would have ever heard of him and he’d be just some college dipshit who hasn’t had someone shit all over his stupid ideas yet. Moreover, the student journalist involved would never have bothered writing a story about it.
To rephrase it, there are plenty of much more prominent and influential people who are saying this (among many other horrible things). Why aren’t we exposing their disgusting untruths, except when Paul Constant reads about it on the Daily Kos?
On second thought, I don’t give a damn about the Ducks, this kid’s an asshole and I’ve now commented twice on this post. Carry on.
It’s troo cuz I red it on the internet toobz!
Obviously Occam’s Razor needs to be made mandatory for freshmen.
(Confidential to Blabby: My college claims Occam as a graduate!)
Another reason to get rid of twitter, which is utterly fucking useless for anything of value