Miley Cyrus may escape any kind of real consequences for her actions once again, as she is trying to get the kind of ridiculous and laughably frivolous $4 billion dollar racism lawsuit against her dismissed. You remember that lawsuit right, the one where you just had to LOL at how completely incompetent you would have to be to think that BS was ever going to fly.
All is right with the world once more, as a tween star does something vaguely insensitive but moreover, astonishingly stupid and sets about getting off scot free. Cyrus stood accused of being racially insulting by Lucie J. Kim, who took it upon herself to sue on behalf of all people of Asian-Pacific Islander descent. Kim was all pissed over those pictures of Cyrus (and to be fair, friends of hers too) pulling the corners of their eyes in a manner that could be considered hurtful to those of Asian descent.
What Kim did not factor in is that not everyone is off their meds and um, most people can count. Not all the way up to $4 billion mind you, but they can count. And, as they can count, it will presumably occur to someone that anything more than compensation in the form of a Big Mac and fries is really rather over-generous.
“As admitted by Plaintiff in her Complaint, Defendant [Cyrus] did not intend to discriminate,” a document released by the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 10 states.
The document was officially a “request for judicial notice in support of demurrers” which means that regardless of whether the plaintiff’s set of facts is correct, they are insufficient and the defendant should not have to answer them or proceed with the case. In the papers, Cyrus’s lawyers call the complaints “frivolous” and that the claims “lack standing.”
Translated, that means and as a tally for those keeping score prostitot cyrus 1: crazy lady 0.
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I want this talented bitch to pay up!!! Muahahahahahahahaha!
I meant talentless! Grrr.
I was so shocked when the first comment came in, I thought that was what you’d meant.
see, that’s what happenes when you have the country music nation behind you. for osme reason those hilbillies (or their offspring) can’t do anything wrong.
Still, she owes the Asian community some reparations. how about she go to this guy’s house with a mule and give him 40 acres of land…lol (i now, wrong ethnicity, but it’ll still work)
She could have just given a sincere apology in the first place and gotten away with it…
i still don’t get the problem with the picture. if anyone looks at it the asian kid in it is clearly opening his eyes as wide as possible. they’re friends doing what friends do…making fun of each other. not to mention she’s just a dumb kid.
i get “stars” are under more scrutiny, but that picture was clearly never meant to be public. aside form that, the picture wasn’t offensive. no one took offense to it, anyone who said they did simply wanted attention and knew they could get it for 30 seconds. her “apology” was perfect.
I’ve seen people on the aggravated race-relations blogs pointing out the Asian kid’s expression too. I am on the fence about this. To me it is not outright offensive, but it is retarded. I’m kinda being hard on her as she has a nasty habit of getting caught up in this kind of scandal. There is about one every few weeks. Her apology was late, which was the problem… the first apology just pissed people off, before she did it properly.
retarded, absolutely. it’s sad, 20 years ago that picture never would have existed. if you needed to pull out a film camera no one in that group would have thought it was a good idea to take that shot, but because everything is instant and easily deleted people take tons of stupid shots. of course they never get deleted and eventually someone says “omg look at this picture!!” and it winds up on the net. then oddly enough other people who have taken equally if not more stupid shots feel the need to comment and judge.
i get the scrutiny thing, but there comes a point where people just need to mind their own business or at the very least keep shit to themselves. not everything is meant to hurt or offend. it’s the people that decide things are offensive that should be apologizing…for wasting everyone’s time. maybe they should take some “stop being so damn sensitive” classes.
This is seriously the most lucid & sane thing I’ve heard anyone say in a long time. The way a picture of a bunch of kids being dumb has blown up into something of epic proportions is mind-boggling. As if there’s nothing better in the world to be upset about than this . . . it’s a waste of energy, time and (in the case of the lawsuit) money. People are so quick to judge and point fingers. Sixteen-year-olds are immature and often make stupid decisions . . . I have pictures at home from when I was that age of me & my friends wearing bikinis and doing stupid things in the house at 2am–it was nothing bad, just entertaining–but if those photos were treated the same way Miley’s have been, they’d seem scandalous and sleazy. And sure, people in the public eye do need to be more careful, but with the paparazzi becoming more & more invasive, it seems like celebrities can’t do anything without it being recorded and belched back out for public consumption with some sort of unfortunate spin on it. I’m not saying I love Miley, but seriously, give most sixteen-year-olds overnight fame and fortune and see what happens. This whole thing is insane. Why does the simple fact that someone finds something offensive automatically put the burden on the “offender?”