5-year-old actress gets death threats over her Disney show’s gay characters

[meegbear]

Source: RawStory.com

Police are investigating death threats made against 5-year-old actress Mia Talerico after her Disney Channel program introduced a lesbian couple, the Daily Dot reported on Thursday.

Talerico’s show, Good Luck Charlie, introduced the two characters, Susan and Cheryl, in an episode aired on Jan. 26. Talerico’s real-life mother, Claire, notified Disney security after someone began posting messages on the actress’ Instagram account saying, “Die Mia, F*cking Die in hell! Kill yourself, you deserve to die.”

CNN reported that Disney then alerted Los Angeles police officials, who are investigating the posts.

The Dot also reported that the one-time appearance of Susan and Cheryl (played by Desi Lydic and Lilli Birdsell, respectively) also spurred an unsuccessful protest by the conservative group One Million Moms, which accused Disney of wanting to “corrupt” its channel by featuring gay characters, however briefly.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/06/5-year-old-actress-gets-death-threats-over-her-disney-shows-gay-characters/

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Fucking sad

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. One million moms is a group

Created, organized and run by two fat, old white guys who are part of the AFA.

[Omaha Steve]

11. I will get slammed for this

It will be a troll that alerts on this. I know two old fat guys that need a death threat.

OS

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. I suspect the majority here agree with you.

I can't argue with your sound logic.

[Ken Burch]

32. a death threat? Maybe a bit much(that, and it'd let them claim "persecution")

I'd settle for giving them Tabasco Sauce enemas.

[juajen]

55. WOW, that's some enema! I think I had rather die.

I do agree. There are nicer and more painful things to use than death threats, though there is no excuse for anyone threatening a child. How stupid that is, and we all know you can't cure stupid.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. sad, but predictable.

[marble falls]

3. Theatening a child. How manly and adult.

[alp227]

23. and PRO-LIFE and PRO-FAMILY too! nt

[Nanjing to Seoul]

60. Why do we assume this troglodyte is a man?

[Victor_c3]

4. The scary part is the person who threatened the 5-year-old isn't rational

How much creative input do they think the 5-year-old actress has in the show? Do they honestly believe the 5-year-old came up with the idea to include a gay couple as a way to somehow stir controversy or to illustrate the concept of inclusion in our society?

As the father of a 5-year-old girl, I know my daughter doesn't have a clue about what gay or straight means let alone understand how or why it could be controversial.

[davidpdx]

9. I agree

The person who threatened her is a very sick individual that needs some psychological help.

[Botany]

5. My guess is that it will be real easy to trace back to where the nasty comments came from.

At which point they will find a sad and lonely man with mental issues who gets his
input from right wing and fundy sources.

[kairos12]

6. Disney is finding out that trolls exactly exist.

[Heather MC]

8. Gotta Love the god-squad NOT!!!

you know according to their bible thinking a thing is just as bad as actually doing it. Maybe it's time these freaks got Arrested for their thoughts when they say shit like this out loud

[broadcaster75201]

10. Shouldn't a group called "one million moms" have more than 2.500 Twitter followers?

How can Libs not vote? We vote, we win. We win, we marginalize these people. You can never completely get rid of evil, but you can sure make it neigh unto irrelevant.

[freebrew]

15. Not until Fake News is dead....nt

[iandhr]

12. Dear god how awful

[SamKnause]

13. Religion poisons EVERYTHING !!!!!!!

[Ken Burch]

33. Hate...not "Religion".

There's no religion on the planet that condones death threats against five-year-olds, for Darwin's sake.

[SamKnause]

35. I repeat, Religion poisons EVERYTHING.

Without religion why would anyone hate same sex couples ?

Who taught all of these hateful people to hate same sex couples ?

Science does not teach hate.

Religion teaches hate and intolerance.

Religion poisons EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ken Burch]

37. Hatred of those seen as "different" predated religion, and exists among the non-religious, too.

The Soviet Union and states modeled on it were hotbeds of religious and ethnic prejudice, and homophobia and bigotry against the disabled(there were to be no "imperfect" people in the land of the "New Man&quot .

Hatred must be fought, and the world's religions(particularly Christianity-and I say that as someone who is still more-or-less Christian)have a lot of misery and blood on their hands. But while that is true, it also isn't that simple. There is something within us, at some level, that seems to feel a NEED to hate, a need to fear, and a need to stigmatize all who don't fit some arbitrary standard of "normal". And the place that this toxic need comes from is a very deep and powerful place...because tyrant after tyrant has taken power, all over the word, by finding some group of people for other people to feel justified in hating.

To wipe out hate, we have to find what it is in ourselves that values hate, and find the way to neutralize it.

So yes, call out religion and the religious when they do damage, when they cause misery, when they cause pain and even death...but don't assume that simply getting rid of religion would make hatred vanish.

There is much more to it than that.

And I'm horribly sorry for all of the way religion and supposedly religious people have done damage in this world, because it is pretty clear from your posts that you and those you care about have been the victims of that.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

41. I put out an alert on this, and the jury voted 3-3 to keep it

I have noticed something of a double standard on DU. Saying truly vile things about religion seems to be acceptable. If someone were to make similar statements about African-Americans, Jews, or just about any other group, such a person would almost certainly be ruthlessly stomped on.

[efhmc]

42. Please add women to that group.

[Politicalboi]

44. Other groups don't choose

Their skin color, sexual orientation, or gender. Religion IS a choice. And to compare those aspects to religion is just silly. You can "choose" to leave a church. Hell, some don't even leave when priests molest young boys.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

46. I am not talking about "priests molesting young boys"

I am speaking of attacks on religion itself. I am a Catholic. I have no problem differentiating between the Catholic faith and the Catholic Church, which are two completely different things. I have, in fact, posted repeatedly on some of what I see wrong with the Catholic Church, for example, at http://www.democraticunderground.com/1221591 (note: I wrote that during the papacy of Benedict XVI, who was then "the current Pope", with "the previous Pope" being John Paul II).

SamKnause's post #35 was attacking the faith, not the Church. "Religion poison's EVERYTHNG" is, as I said, a vile attack on religion, and such attacks are apparently quite acceptable on DU.

[EvilAL]

51. The difference is

that religion is a thing. The jury should have went 6-0 to leave it. Saying Religion is poison, or poisons everything isn't insulting the followers of the religion, maybe one might be offended by it, but as far as I am concerned it wouldn't offend me if that is someone's opinion of a group or institution. everytime someone gets on about guns or PETA you have people getting offended, but it's not an attack on the people. Had the poster said that 'the religious poison everything', or 'Catholics poison everything' I may agree with you. In the end it is still a choice and if you choose to belong to a group that gets crapped on sometimes, like say RKBA proponents, you have the right to defend it or ignore the poster. You also have the right to alert on the post, but don't be surprised when it is allowed to stay.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

53. To sum up your last post, you have no problem with hatred being spewed.

Could it be that you agree with it?

[EvilAL]

56. You can 'sum it up' however you want.

I have no problem with people talking shit about any organization, even an organization I am part of. The only recourse is crying persecution or bigotry, both of which would be a real stretch for the post you alerted on. I have been accused of being a bigot for saying bad stuff about a book. A BOOK. You can probably guess which book. Had it been a stephen king book nobody would have said shit.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

57. Right.

If you say that it is a stretch to say "Religion teaches hate and intolerance. Religion poisons EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is bigoted.

Then apparently, you place the bar for bigotry quite high.

[EvilAL]

58. Not at all.

There is no bar. I can't be bigoted against an idea. I can say that this idea is bad or good, or wrong or whatever and it isn't bigoted. Religion holds no special significance. Downhill Skiing poisons everything!! Am I bigoted against downhill skiiers or people that are fans of downhill skiing? or both? If they invent Uphill skiing and it ruins the sport of skiing, would I be a bigot if I said Uphill skiing poisons everything?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

59. Twaddle

I was going to say that you don't want to admit to your bigotry, but that would undoubtedly get me a slap on the wrist. (Of course, when I am called a "drooling mouthed, bigoted moron" -- see http://www.democraticunderground.com/121899547#post79 , that was considered quite acceptable. But then, there is a clear double standard -- the tender feelings of atheists are to be deferred to, but insults from them are OK)

Anyway, my previous comment stands: If you say " "Religion teaches hate and intolerance. Religion poisons EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is not bigoted, then you set the bar for bigotry extremely high.

[EvilAL]

61. You can say

What you want to me, i really don't care. I don't alert on anything, but maybe someone else would have. If i had been on the jury for that post about you i would have voted to hide. I can say pretty much whatever i want about religion and it's not bigotry. We've been over this a million times on DU. Nobody ever says bad things about atheism on DU.. LOL

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

62. "I can say pretty much whatever i want about religion and it's not bigotry."

Exactly. Atheists can spout the most bigoted things, and that's just peach-keen dandy. Let a believer say, "That's bigotry." and said believer will be stomped on -- and you would help in the stomping.

Thank you for admitting you support a double standard.

[EvilAL]

66. You can too.

You can say whatever you want about any religion and how it's stupid or mythological. Fuck the pope. Zeus is an asshole. Horus had sex with sheep. Being offended doesn't make the offender a bigot. It's just too bad that in our time, when people are realizing religion for what it is and was meant to be, that people are still arguing over it, it should be embraced and we can move on. At least we are able to argue about it without getting burned or stoned for it, as per god's instructions in that book. Well, some people still do in other places.
As for the double standard, if you think atheists are running shit around here, well, heh, I don't know what to say about that. I don't think I've ever stomped on anyone here about their beliefs or lack of belief. If I had I would have been slammed for it and would remember.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

67. "Being offended doesn't make the offender a bigot."

Not necessarily. But spouting bigotry does. And "Religion poisons EVERYTHING" is bigotry, whether you want to admit it or not.

As for the double standard, if you think atheists are running shit around here, well, heh, I don't know what to say about that. I don't think I've ever stomped on anyone here about their beliefs or lack of belief. If I had I would have been slammed for it and would remember.

Congratulations, you have not done so. Others have. I gave a specific example where I was called a "drooling mouthed, bigoted moron" and that was acceptable, yet I called an atheist a nebbish (because he had called me a liar -- and was not taken to task for it -- and after I proved, by direct sourced quotation, that I told the truth, he literally laughed it off) I was slapped down. Double standard.

[arcane1]

65. That's because religion is a belief, not an innate trait like skin color.

To have it otherwise would mean that we would not be allowed to criticize conservatism.

[abq e streeter]

36. Damn right. Everything ! Just like Martin Luther King and the Southern CHRISTIAN

Leadership Conference poisoned America ,right? Or BISHOP Desmond Tutu poisoned South Africa. I'm right with you, my fellow enlightened progressive.

[Turbineguy]

14. Ah yes....

lovely people, those Christians.

[mopinko]

16. he wanted her

but if she is a lesbian, he can't have her.

i got a crisp $20 that says the guy has a hard drive full of kiddy porn.

[lunasun]

17. I will not bet against that!

and he really liked her too....
until she started having the gay around her!

I will bet he did not have little kid watching that show and was offended
but that he was watching a little kid on the show

[wyldwolf]

18. For a kids show, Good Luck, Charlie is quite entertaining. My eight year old loves it

When we saw this episode, my daughter calmly said, 'oh, she has two moms.'

[Diclotican]

28. wyldwolf

wyldwolf

Im 37 - and I like the show - or at least when Im surfing the channels - and the show is on.. Its at least entertaining to a degree..

Diclotican

[laundry_queen]

49. We watch it all the time here. My kids love it.

I haven't seen the episode yet but I'll keep my eyes open for it.

[Initech]

19. I hate that group One Million Moms.

[Ken Burch]

34. I'm pretty sure all 3 billion ACTUAL moms agree with you. n/t.

[Shoulders of Giants]

20. Anyone who sends a 5 year old girl death threats for ANY reason needs to do hard prison time.

[laundry_queen]

50. yep. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

21. Whaaaaaaaat

fuck this planet. Good grief.

[brett_jv]

24. This IS horrible. What a Dick. However, not actually a 'death threat' ...

He's telling the kid to kill herself, hoping she dies, etc ... which is absolutely and obviously deplorable ... but it's technically not a 'death threat'. That would involve saying that he's (or others acting on his behalf are) going to actually do the deed. I'd say it's rather carefully worded by someone who knows how to make a threat to someone else ... whilst avoiding an assault charge.

[Arkana]

25. You have to be a really fucking pathetic shell of a human being

to send death threats to a 5-year-old.

[Dawson Leery]

26. "Pro-life" until the fetus becomes a living child outside the womb.

Par for the course when it comes to the "Christian" Taliban.

[Diclotican]

27. meegbear

meegbear

What the hell is wrong with people - "Good Luck Charlie" is just fun - nothing more - and now people is trowing around death treats against a 5 year old actor because of including of a lesbian couple..


Diclotican

[meegbear]

29. Diclotican

Diclotican

If I could answer that, I'd be telling people how to do that.

It's a sad, sad world sometimes.

[Diclotican]

30. meegbear

meegbear

It is indeed a sad world sometimes... The kid is just 5 years old - and got her first death treath... I wonder what is next on their "agenda" .... To threaten to kill a 5 year old, over something like this, is just, in my humble opinion pure evil - and stupid as few... But then again - people who hate, are not the most reasonable peoples in the world either...

Diclotican

[Gothmog]

31. This story is very sad to me

I have trouble imaging someone threatening a child

[jmowreader]

38. This is more like cyberbullying than actual death threats

The person (roughly speaking) who did this probably never saw the show. But The Gay is such an unbelievably potent force it grabs up even people who are so young they don't know what those weird body parts are for, much less who they want to use them with.

[CSStrowbridge]

39. Every anti-gay Republican...

Every anti-gay Republican should be asked about this death threat. They should be put on the spot to either denounce anti-gay bigotry or support a death threat against a five-year old.

[sakabatou]

45. +1

[madrchsod]

40. most of these shows have "gay" characters and they do`t hide it.

i guess some people just figured this out

[Rainforestgoddess]

43. Sounds like a good one for anonymous

To get involved in.

[Auntie Bush]

47. So how are these Gay charactors going to hurt people.

Why should others be scared of them? Why can't people mind their own business?

[Rhythm]

48. What kind of human excrement treats a child like this???!

[EvilAL]

52. Sickening.

Totally fucking sickening to threaten a 5 year old. That's all I can say about that!

[appleannie1]

54. It takes a special kind of sick scum to threaten a 5 year old.

[uppityperson]

64. Karma? Welcome to Du