Wheelchair user slammed after saying they were excited about \u2018hate crime\u2019 TIKTOK: loony.livingA content creator who uses a wheelchair is under fire on TikTok, after saying they were excited about being the victim of a \u201chate crime.\u201d In a controversial clip posted by loony.living, the TikToker said they and their friend, Alice, \u201cjust got hate crimed.\u201d Both of them use wheelchairs, as shown in the video. \u201cAnd I\u2019m really excited about it!\u201d they said before bursting out laughing. According to the content creator, someone saw the pair and yelled, \u201ccripple.\u201d Loony.living said they responded by yelling \u201cyeah!\u201d excitedly. \u201cIt\u2019s never happened like that before,\u201d they said. \u201cWe\u2019re both just really chopped that it\u2019s finally happened. It was comical. Like, the perfect hate crime.\u201d The TikToker has since deleted both their video and account after facing backlash on the app via duet, stitches, and comments. Wheelchair user faces TikTok backlash Several content creators have now re-uploaded the video, and viewers have flooded the comment section to call out loony.living. \u201cThis rings so tone deaf to all the people who have been physically assaulted and accosted to such a level that they have to fear for their lives,\u201d one wrote. \u201cThe audacity that they\u2019re excited on getting hate crimed,\u201d another said, adding a facepalm emoji. \u201cThe way they\u2019re acting like being hate crimed is a bucket list item. This is so violent tbh,\u201d a third shared. \u201cI can understand not wanting to let it ruin your day, but to not only be fine with it but to be exited?\u201d someone else commented. Some TikTok users made their own videos in response to loony.living\u2019s clip, with many saying that it showed their white privilege. In response, loony.living commented on a video saying that they are \u201cBIPOC,\u201d which means Black, Indigenous, or person of color. However, others said that despite their identity, the TikToker\u2019s white skin means that the world perceived them as white, affording them privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wheelchair user slammed after saying they were excited about \u2018hate crime\u2019 TIKTOK: loony.livingA content creator who uses a wheelchair is under fire on TikTok, after saying they were excited about being the victim of a \u201chate crime.\u201d In a controversial clip posted by loony.living, the TikToker said they and their friend, Alice, \u201cjust got hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}