Ex-beauty contestant condemns JD Vance for use of embarrassing video
A 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant who drew widespread mockery because of a stuttering response to a question that she fielded at the competition has said it is “a shame” – and also condemned “online bullying” – after JD Vance recirculated a video of her difficult moment to attack Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, the Republican nominee for vice-president in November’s election has ruled out apologizing to Caitlin Upton, who has spoken openly about how she previously contemplated suicide at the height of the ordeal revived by Vance.
“It’s a shame that 17 years later this is still being brought up,” Upton wrote on X, just a short time before deleting her account from the social media platform entirely. “Regardless of political beliefs, one thing I do know is that social media and online bullying still needs to stop.”
Vance in turn appeared Friday on CNN, dismissed the video of Upton as little more than “a 20-year-old meme” and suggested Upton “laugh it off”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...s-teen-usa
A 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant who drew widespread mockery because of a stuttering response to a question that she fielded at the competition has said it is “a shame” – and also condemned “online bullying” – after JD Vance recirculated a video of her difficult moment to attack Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, the Republican nominee for vice-president in November’s election has ruled out apologizing to Caitlin Upton, who has spoken openly about how she previously contemplated suicide at the height of the ordeal revived by Vance.
“It’s a shame that 17 years later this is still being brought up,” Upton wrote on X, just a short time before deleting her account from the social media platform entirely. “Regardless of political beliefs, one thing I do know is that social media and online bullying still needs to stop.”
Vance in turn appeared Friday on CNN, dismissed the video of Upton as little more than “a 20-year-old meme” and suggested Upton “laugh it off”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...s-teen-usa
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
