Can we have a quick word about this guy?
He was asked (or basically *ordered*) by his #FyreFestival boss to go suck dick to get a shipment of water through customs.
Quite a few people are memeing it like it's hilarious. It's not - it's a horrible abuse of power.
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He spoke about it on the documentary, and I'm not going to tell you what it was to him or how he felt, that's entirely up to him. But if you're making hilarious jokes about it, memeing it and going 'hahaha', what are you telling others who may be put in this position in future?
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Is it because he's a dude? Is it because he's gay? I'm genuinely horrified by some of the ways I've seen people making light of this.
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Yeah it was devastating. Also: I would expect my own TL to be better than this, but turns out not. What's more, I've seen articles in mainstream pubs that brush this off like it's a joke.
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The word “boss” there struck me, and might be where (rightly or wrongly) people feel there’s leeway.
To me he seemed like a well-off ‘doer’ who got involved to bring his authority - more collaborator than employee. So was in a position to refuse.
Gonna have to research him now.
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Poor chap. I haven't seen the documentary, though I have read a bit about Fyre - enough to know that the people in actual charge were sociopaths who thought that anyone else was just an object they could move around at will. It's possible that some people memeing it think that
the butt of the joke is the sociopath whose way of solving a problem is to tell someone else to offer themselves up as a sex toy, but perhaps they are not getting it across. Or not thinking it through.
I laughed at that section, but mostly because I thought he was an absolute hero for being ready to lie down on that grenade for the perceived greater good. The impression I got we he was a friend and not an employee though so not sure of the power dynamic
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