which featured drag queens
The email, from people called Ian and Karen, was essentially a bitter rant about how the senders would no longer fly the airline due to its advertising campaign . It included the words “depravity”, “mentally deranged” and “GET WOKE GO BROKE” — so you know exactly what kind of person sends this shit.
The tweet received mixed reactions. While some people celebrated it as a literal Karen getting publicly owned, others accused Virgin Australia of making up the email for social clout.
“The email is clearly fake,” one Twitter user wrote.
“It took exactly 30 minutes from email being sent to the media team to it being used for a marketing campaign. No airline does anything with customer complaints that fast.”
The tweet was deleted pretty much immediately after that, but by then a wider discourse had taken place.
“Yes, please support LGBTQI+, but don’t make up fake hate emails to sell airline tickets and then delete your post when called on it,” another Twitter user said.
Others accused Virgin of “creating fake hate speech to hawk Pride plane tickets”.
Virgin, however, has denied the email was fake and maintains it was shared with good intentions.
Yes, please, support lgbtqi+, but don’t make up fake hate emails to sell airline tickets and then delete your post when called on it pic.twitter.com/AbOlj0UZSD
— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) October 19, 2022
“The decision to post online disrespectful and hateful email communications about our Pride Flights was an error of judgement by our team,” a spokesman told PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“Whilst the intention was to shine a light on this intolerant conduct, the reality was that it was an inappropriate thing to do.”
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