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People Are Rightfully Roasting This Actor's Awful Tweet About POSE
Little Rascals star Blake McIver called the groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated show "Glee with a viral load." YIKES.
FX's incredibly diverse, Emmy-nominated series POSE has been praised by fans and critics for its portrayal of the New York City ball scene during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the '80s and '90s and for giving a voice to the many Black and Brown queer and trans people who were largely ignored by the mainstream gay rights movement. But the series' groundbreaking representation apparently still isn't enough for some people who try to make jokes about it.
"So POSE is just Glee with a viral load now?" Blake McIver, former child actor and star of The Little Rascals, tweeted in a very poor attempt at humor. As expected, not one person found McIver's serophobic joke funny, and people rightfully took to Twitter to call him out:
\u201cIf you are using people living with HIV as a punchline, then you can go straight to hell. It\u2019s cheap, tactless, and tasteless. Our veterans didn\u2019t put their bodies on the line for this bull shit. Have some respect.\u201d— ACT UP NY (@ACT UP NY) 1564071791
\u201c@BlakeMcIver I have #HIV antibodies older than you, sir, and never in my life has punching down been hilarious -- or a good career move. That sound you hear is you tumbling down the Hollywood alphabet. #GoodbyeDList\u201d— Mark S. King (@Mark S. King) 1564062898
\u201c@BlakeMcIver Tasteless & tactless tweets. Get well.\u201d— JOHNNY SIBILLY (@JOHNNY SIBILLY) 1564068651
\u201c@BlakeMcIver Thank you for showing us your true entitled you. May the internet gods drag your sad career into the gutter.\u201d— VivaciousNYC (@VivaciousNYC) 1564070779
After his tweet went viral for all the wrong reasons, McIver has since deleted his Twitter account. Let this be a lesson for the rest of us out there: this is exactly what NOT to do on Twitter...
