“Usually it’s so easy to tell,” said 717 Resident Adam Mickleson. “Whenever something bad happens, there’s always the people who post on Facebook and try to make it about them.
” Mickelson gazed into his teacup, at a loss for words.
“But now I’m not even sure.”
“I guess the French flag thing is kind of tacky. Like, that’s still a photo of you, super-drunk, dancing with a baguette. Not exactly somber. Are you being “that guy”? But then there’s that guy who’s criticizing everyone for not expressing support when there were attacks in Beirut. It’s a good point, but I don’t remember him writing any Lebanese-solidarity posts either.
It’s just very confusing. I would call him out for being ‘that guy’, but I feel like then I’d become ‘that guy’. You know?”
When pressed for comment on the large amounts of people copy-pasting solidarity with Mizzou, Mickelson confessed: “honestly, I haven’t been keeping up with the issue at all. I see people posting, but I had a lot of homework that week and it sort of just kept getting pushed back every time I told myself that I would look up what was going on.” Mickelson also added that he’s always felt lost addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that both sides seem to make a lot of convincing points.
Meanwhile, world leaders have expressed solidarity with the French people, promising to respond to this terrifying episode of violence with even more violence, but somewhere else.
