Denise Helms
(Credit: Fox 40 Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
"I didn't think it would be that big of a deal."
These are words so many of us have used, just before someone slapped us across the chops.
So it has proved for Denise Helms, a 22-year-old woman from Turlock, Calif., who used Facebook to express her own miffedness with the re-election of the president.
As Fox 40 in Sacramento records it, she wrote: "Another 4 years of this n*****. Maybe he will get assassinated this term."
Oddly, this post seems to have incurred something of a reaction itself. Not everyone was at one with her sentiment.
Indeed, her employer, Cold Stone Creamery, looked at it chillingly and fired her.
"This employee is no longer w/the company & her disgraceful and completely unacceptable comments do not reflect our views," Cold Stone Creamery tweeted.
Helms, when interviewed by Fox 40, seemed largely less than repentant about her Facebook post. She said: "He's done absolutely nothing for this country."
She happily explained the nuances behind her thoughts: "The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying, like, I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think ... [Read more]
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