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LonePirate

(14,236 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:56 PM Sep 12

Is this in poor taste or is it acceptable dark humor? [View all]

I was scrolling through Tik Tok tonight and I came across a brief 30 second video of a woman eating some strawberries and drinking a beverage while sitting on her couch. Some text overlaid the bottom section of the video which read "At least Charlie Kirk would be happy to know it was a qualified white man and not a DEI hire."

What does DU think of this statement? Is this a fair attempt at humor given Kirk's notorious racism and misogyny? Or is it an insensitive commentary on his death? Also, there is a snippet of the song "Protect Ya Neck" by Wu-Tang Clan playing as a soundtrack to the video.

The hypocritical free speech for me but not for thee crowd on the right would obviously be screaming about this video. However the 500+ comments on the video as of this moment are almost unanimous in their support of the woman of who posted it with many of them praising the video for its humor. That could be the app's self-selective algorithm funneling like minded users to the video, though.

I am not going to provide a link to the video, at least not for now; but I may provide one later even though there is nothing more to the video than what I described above.

What say you, DU?


38 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
Yes, the video is appropriate.
35 (92%)
No, the video is in poor taste.
1 (3%)
I'm not sure as it could go either way.
2 (5%)
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