It’s so easy to trigger the mentally ill now, it’s not even fun anymore.
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo cracked a tone-deaf joke at the network’s LGBTQ town hall debate Thursday night — sparking uproar on social media and prompting the anchor to issue an apology.
Cuomo was welcoming Sen. Kamala Harris onstage in Los Angeles when the 2020 Democratic candidate told him, “My pronouns are she, her, and hers.”
“She, her and hers? Mine too,” Cuomo replied with a smile, eliciting audible groans from the audience.
“All right,” Harris finally replied, ending an awkward silence.
Cuomo was quickly roasted on social media over the gaffe.
“Dear @ChrisCuomo, people’s pronouns are not a punchline,” the National Center for Lesbian Rights tweeted.
“In a year where LGBTQ Americans are finally being recognized on the national Presidential stage, making jokes about gender pronouns is beneath your dignity. Please do better in the future.”
Josh Stickney, a spokesman for Equality California and Silver State Equality in Nevada, expressed his “incredible disappointment.”
https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/cnn-a...tone-deaf-gender-pronoun-joke-at-lgbtq-event/
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo cracked a tone-deaf joke at the network’s LGBTQ town hall debate Thursday night — sparking uproar on social media and prompting the anchor to issue an apology.
Cuomo was welcoming Sen. Kamala Harris onstage in Los Angeles when the 2020 Democratic candidate told him, “My pronouns are she, her, and hers.”
“She, her and hers? Mine too,” Cuomo replied with a smile, eliciting audible groans from the audience.
“All right,” Harris finally replied, ending an awkward silence.
Cuomo was quickly roasted on social media over the gaffe.
“Dear @ChrisCuomo, people’s pronouns are not a punchline,” the National Center for Lesbian Rights tweeted.
“In a year where LGBTQ Americans are finally being recognized on the national Presidential stage, making jokes about gender pronouns is beneath your dignity. Please do better in the future.”
Josh Stickney, a spokesman for Equality California and Silver State Equality in Nevada, expressed his “incredible disappointment.”
https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/cnn-a...tone-deaf-gender-pronoun-joke-at-lgbtq-event/