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Reporter’s apology for pro-Stalin memes ignites Twitter

Reminder: Gulags were bad.

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Today in an inconsequential drama that sets media Twitter aflame, we have a *spins wheel* Russia Today D.C. reporter who is *ask the crowd Mad Libs-style for a verb ending in -ing* apologizing for *rolls infinity-sided die that contains every possible outcome in the multiverse* sharing pro-Joseph Stalin memes on the timeline.

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Sameera Khan sparked controversy today when she apologized for putting out some praise of Soviet gulags with a meme defending socialism as more humane than our current capitalistic, for-profit prison-system.

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Sadly, the meme ignores the millions who perished in Stalin’s gulags, aka forced labor camps, so we’d have to rate it as somewhat misleading.

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Not many people noticed the meme, but after she deleted her tweets, Khan’s apology caught the eye of just about everyone.

https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1049356285030883329

https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1049358747024478208

That phrasing brought to mind a very popular old tweet by Dril, the infamous Nostradamus of Twitter.

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Everyone pointed this out.

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https://twitter.com/_shyextrovert/status/1049373334050406400

https://twitter.com/mekosoff/status/1049365619617882112

https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1049366377570680834

https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1049365855002402817

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It was also praised as an extremely 2018 moment, which, yea.

https://twitter.com/EamonnMorris/status/1049373998000136198

And although yes, Russia Today is an outlet for pro-Russia propaganda, people still felt the need to call Khan out for pushing out Russian propaganda.

https://twitter.com/publicradionerd/status/1049372330001149952

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Anyway, yes, gulags were bad. But being online all day has its own issues. This isn’t even the weirdest apology for misrepresenting a World War II-era leader we’ve seen on Twitter in the past 24 hours.

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Maybe we can hand it to FDR?

 
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