The Onion's Chris Brown "Joke"

I'm not going to link to the Onion article on Chris Brown's break-up with Rihanna. Frankly, they've gotten more than enough ad revenue off yesterday's article entitled "Heartbroken Chris Brown Always Thought Rihanna Was Woman He'd Beat To Death". It's a hateful piece and there is no justification whatsoever for "jokes" about domestic violence and the murder of a woman.

I'm angry someone wrote that piece.

I'm angry that the Onion saw fit to publish it.

I'm angry that there are white feminists "defending" this piece. 

I doubt very much the Onion would have published a piece like this if the victim of violence was white.

I doubt very much the Onion would have published a piece like this if the perpetrator was white.

This isn't about misogyny, and the Onion has some serious form for pretending misogyny is 'funny', this is also about racism.

Rihanna has the right to live her life in privacy without being publicly humiliated and blamed for being a victim of domestic violence.

By all means, call Chris Brown out on his violence but not like this. Don't resort to malicious "jokes".

Male violence is all too frequently ignored, minimised and elided under the guise of "humour". How many women have to die before we stop pretending domestic violence is funny?