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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Aug 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel Radosh

    We all owe Sinead O'Connor an apology.https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/1029923751293603845 …

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    Daniel Radosh @danielradosh
    When was the first time you heard that the Catholic Church was teeming with child abuse? If you're my age, it was Sinead O'Connor on SNL. She was almost universally treated like a crazy person who had said something bizarre and unforgivable. pic.twitter.com/5ZmlNBK8Ex
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Aug 2018

        One interesting thing is that people were mad at O'Connor for going after Pope John Paul II, who got overwhelmingly good press (largely for Cold War reasons, I think). But history will say O'Connor was closer to the mark.

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      2. Pride is a protest‏ @ianmnoone 15 Aug 2018
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        Not me. I cheered. And I've hated Joe Pesci ever since the following week when he had that damn photo taped back together.

        3 replies 5 retweets 102 likes
      3. Katy Jean‏ @katynotie 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @ianmnoone @HeerJeet

        but I think Joe Pesci is Pope John XXIII. Look it up. They're the same person.

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      1. SlothHammer 40K‏ @CaseyExplosion 15 Aug 2018
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        Absolutely. She was treated like a pariah for it, but she was completely right.

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      2.  🌻 🌻 🌻  🇺🇦 Beth  🇺🇦 🌻 🌻 🌻‏ @stuckinoregon 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I remember that moment-& certainly after that appearance, MSM talked about as a wacko who needed either to dry out in rehab or get psychotherapy. No one in media took her seriously-they treated her as an embarrassment.

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      3. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @stuckinoregon @HeerJeet

        My only quibble here is that the Media *did* take her seriously. By treating her as an embarrasment. The Media at the time gaslit her and the remaining members of Media at the time knows full well that they gaslit her. 😢

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      2. Osvaldo Oyola  🇵🇷‏ @themiddlespaces 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I took my mom on the NBC tour at 30 Rock a few years ago and the pages who give the tour explained that O'Connor is still banned from the building b/c of that.

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      3. Nicholas Richardson‏ @Slicknickshady 15 Aug 2018
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        Which is a fucking joke. she is an amazing vocalist. I just hate the feeling that one day we’ll wake up and find she went through with committing suicide. I hope I’m wrong. So ya.. a lot of people owe her an apology for a lot of things.

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      1. Erik 楚冰冰‏ @eriktruedson 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It seems like a big difference between Sinead and Kaepernick is there doesn't seem to have been much of a positive contingency on their side of the issue, exclusively mockery or condemnation, which is sad and unfortunate. #FREESINEAD

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      2. Doe Hill‏ @CoraBGodsey 15 Aug 2018
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        If you were alive in Canada in 1989, you couldn't not be aware of the Mount Cashel Orphanage story about the wholesale child abuse perpetrated by the Christian Brothers. Sinead O'Connor was entirely believable - why people chose not to believe her is mind boggling.

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      3. shams‏ @FoptimusSublime 15 Aug 2018
        Replying to @CoraBGodsey @HeerJeet

        At the time it didn't get nearly the press. Probably she had seen the film The Boys of St Vincent which I think was also Canadian?

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