Via eclecticairwavesGawker writer, Seth Abramovitch, has been fired for his incredibly offensive and racist tweet about Kanye West’s inspiration twitter episode a couple of days ago.
Here’s exactly what he wrote:
“You think Tom Ford is full of himself? Kanye West sh*ts Tom Fords for breakfast. Then he irons out the sh*ts into cutting-edge fabrics, and frantically cuts, sews, and laces that fabric through the night and into the morning, until he has produced the most unbelievable clothes — nay, FASHION + ART = FARTSHION! — in the universe. And he calls these clothes DONDA. But he calls all that other stuff DONDA, too! DONDA will be your everything. Just you wait and see. And what is DONDA? It’s an acronym for Dis Original N***a Dresses Aight.”
Seems like a case of someone letting their bigotry get the better of them, especially seeing as “DONDA” is actually the name of Kanye’s deceased mother.
Should’ve done some research, Seth, and kept your pathetic, tasteless and racist feelings to yourself. Things on the internet are written in something I like to call “forever ink” and no amount of “sorries” can erase what has occurred.
I’m going to use a George Carlin quote here (I’m paraphrasing): “One of the duties of a comedian is to find out where...
Wow, I read Gawker regularly and had no idea about this.