The horror...the horror.
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates went into full liberal outrage mode when she spotted a picture of that notorious big game hunter, Steven Spielberg, posing with his prey. In this case it was a Triceratops dinosaur prop from the Jurassic Park movie set. It turns out that Oates' anger comes about 65 million years too late because that was about how long ago this dinosaur went extinct. Her laughably misplaced anger was in reaction to a tongue in cheek tweet by IGN movie editor Chris Tilly who probably didn't think any rational person would take him seriously.
This guy thinks it's cool to kill defenceless animals then take a selfie. Jerk. pic.twitter.com/WbgMklrd9u
— Chris Tilly (@TillyTweets) June 9, 2015
An angry Oates responded by asking why no conservation laws are helping to preserve extinct dinosaurs:
So barbaric that this should still be allowed... No conservation laws in effect wherever this is? https://t.co/hgavm9IBaM
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) June 9, 2015
Exit question: Will her clueless tweet become the best known piece of writing by Joyce Carol Oates?
UPDATE: To add to her cluelessness, the same picture posted on Facebook last July also inspired laughable outrage which she missed. However, to date, Joyce Carol Oates is the best known among the totally clueless.
