Mean Tweets

Jimmy Kimmel is doing a feature called Mean Tweets in which popular entertainment stars walk on stage from behind a curtain and read a real mean tweet sent to them.

At first, it’s a bit disturbing but then as star after star comes forward and reads these hateful comments, you wind up laughing at the depraved person who wrote them and hit send.

The stars have it right.

They laugh, they make faces and they basically make fun of the person who tweeted them.

Humor is a way to deflect hateful language whether in a tweet, an email or in person. Embrace it and encourage it in others especially young people.

The moment you let this vitriol get to you, the spineless perpetrator wins.

But laugh at them, which is what you do when you see how attractive stars read them out loud and the joke is on the hater.

Laugh beyond shame and the shame deflects to the haters.

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