A celebrity death sort of goes like this: Celebrity dies, people tweet a lot of RIPs. Westboro Baptist Church announces its plans to protest the funeral, people tweet a lot of OMGs.
Westboro, if you recall, is the group that holds signs like “God hates fags,” yes, generally startling stuff if you haven’t seen it before. But they also do this all the time, so it’s pretty expected.
The small group has been doing these kinds of things for quite a while, so it ceases to amaze me. But every time they do it, I guess, you find people who haven’t heard of the group. People are still shocked it exists and I’m still shocked that they’re shocked.
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