The Onion calls 9 year old Quvenzhane Wallis a C*nt

blackrain

The Onion is a routinely funny, usually quick-witted satirical newspaper, but needless to say it did not go over well last night when they called the 9-year-old Oscar-nominee Quvenzhane Wallis the c-word. Someone manning The Onion's Twitter feed sent this tweet out around midnight last night (8:42 PST):



As Buzzfeed's Kate Arthur notes, the tweet stayed up for about an hour, and then was deleted without an explanation after a severe backlash

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/02/onion-quevenzhane-wallis-joke/62476/

Gold_Certificate

Well, is she a cunt?

MzGrahamBitches

I heard the teaser for this story on the radio this morning..what was their reasoning for calling her that?

haute

meh not funny

But not worth the emotions people had over it

Gold_Certificate

I disagree with her name, so I am inclined to believe that the allegations are true.

blackrain

MzGrahamBitches wrote: »

I heard the teaser for this story on the radio this morning..what was their reasoning for calling her that?

An attempt at satire

thisniggacrazy

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/02/onion-quevenzhane-wallis-joke/62476/[/quote]

Thats a re-tweet from supreme

DJ Pauls Arm

hos out here getting upset and tweeting about this shit meanwhile their own children runnning around hungry with a shitty diaper. so sad

mryounggun

Shit actually was kind of funny, if you think about it. But I kinda understand why people are upset.

Matt-

anyone who is bothered by something said on The Onion should just go to a cancer facility, find a terminally ill patient, and give them their spot in this world.

p-tavern

I didn't think anyone outside the Chinese govt. took things by The Onion to heart.

kai_valya

that's a wack attempt at satire. not really sure what they were going for, but you can't take the onion seriously

Matt-

p-tavern wrote: »

I didn't think anyone outside the Chinese govt. took things by The Onion to heart.

SleepwalkingInJapan

sounds like something joad cressbeckler would say

p-tavern

lol @ taking 4 tweets to rant about it too

He doesn't have Tony Reali or some fact checking interns around to get to the bottom of these things before he addresses them?

bull6599

I'm still stuck on the first name.

7figz

And who said your kids gotta have white-sounding names to be successful ?

Spoiler:

Even if they are a little cunt.

Lil Loca

I wasn't aware that using satire required using racist/sexist language to degrade a young Black child.

People have become desensitized to it because it's so pervasive in our culture.

bull6599

7figz wrote: »

And who said your kids gotta have white-sounding names to be successful ?

Spoiler:

Even they are a little cunt.

That shit a lil ridiculous though bruh. I got a friend who used to teach 2nd grade. Lil niggas can't spell their name off the top of their head until 4th grade cuz that shit be so gotdamn long & complicated.

DJ Pauls Arm

these broads get so made at a satire new agency for callin that little girl a cunt meanwhile their own kids be shittin on the floor like a cocker spaniel smh

Matt-

how come nobody is mad at the parents for calling the kid Quvenzhane

kai_valya

Matt- wrote: »

how come nobody is mad at the parents for calling the kid Quvenzhane

you've never encountered foreigners with hard to pronounce names? greeks, indians, asians, africans etc. how is this really different?

Matt-

kai_valya wrote: »

Matt- wrote: »

how come nobody is mad at the parents for calling the kid Quvenzhane

you've never encountered foreigners with hard to pronounce names? greeks, indians, asians, africans etc. how is this really different?

i don't even know who this is. I just assumed it was a lil black boy

Gold_Certificate

Matt- wrote: »

how come nobody is mad at the parents for calling the kid Quvenzhane

Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, the daughter of Qulyndreia, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver.[1][6][7] "Quven", the first part of her name, combines her parents' first names, while her mother has stated that zhané means "fairy" in Swahili.[8]

Gold_Certificate wrote: »

I disagree with her name, so I am inclined to believe that the allegations are true.

Plap Star

i dont even kno who that is

kai_valya

Matt- wrote: »

kai_valya wrote: »

Matt- wrote: »

how come nobody is mad at the parents for calling the kid Quvenzhane

you've never encountered foreigners with hard to pronounce names? greeks, indians, asians, africans etc. how is this really different?

i don't even know who this is. I just assumed it was a lil black boy

it's a girl

i'm just talking generally tho. why do folks so frown up these hard to pronounce black names, yet don't feel the same about hard to pronounce foreign names. just a thought i had