Fox News contributor Katherine Timpf sent death threats by Star Wars fans because she mocked them as ‘space nerds’ and ‘crazy’
A Fox News contributor awakened a dark force within the Internet when she mocked Star Wars fans.
Last month, Katherine Timpf expressed that she was not impressed with fans who are waiting with bated, nerdy breath for the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens.
On Tuesday, she revealed that her put-downs resulted in death threats.
‘A lot of people are clearly a lot of upset. But guess what? I’m not apologizing,’ she wrote in the National Review.
In the original Fox segment, she shared her thoughts on Star Wars fanatics by saying, ‘I have never had any interest in watching space nerds poke each other with their little space nerd sticks, and I’m not going to start now.’
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Fox News contributor Katherine Timpf called Star Wars fans ‘crazy’ but even she probably didn’t know how much…
After Timpf said some harsh words about Star Wars fans, they reacted by sending her death, rape, and maiming threats
Timpf may have received death threats from crazed Star Wars fans, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to stop poking fun of them like she does above Photoshopped into Darth Vader’s costume
‘You people are crazy. You people are crazy. Yesterday I tweeted something, and all I said was that I wasn’t familiar with Star Wars because I’ve been too busy liking cool things and being attractive – people threatened my life. You’re not really branding yourself in a way that makes me want to join your life-threatening club.’
The Forces Awakens, which opens on Christmas, is the seventh movie in the Star Wars franchise, and stars original cast members Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, as well as newcomers to the space epic Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the seventh movie in the Star Wars space odyssey and opens on Christmas
The movie brings back some of the first trilogy stars, including Harrison Ford (right) and Chewbacca
If the trailers are any indication, Han Solo and his love interest from the first trilogy, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are still going strong
The anxiously anticipated movie is directed by J.J. Abrams and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote two of the original trilogy films.
George Lucas, who created the movie empire, was a consultant.
At least one hater made a video manifesto on YouTube attacking Timpf, and there were comments suggested raping her, throwing acid in her face, beating her, and cutting off her face.
Timpf, who is also a reporter at National Review Online and a comedian, stuck by her guns that Star Wars devotees were ‘crazy,’ writing, ‘Bottom line: If you are telling me that I should die and/or apologize for making a joke about a movie you like, then you are too sensitive.’
‘You have the problem, not me. I’m sick of oversensitive mobs in our overly sensitive society bullying people into saying that they’re sorry over jokes – even if the subject of the joke is something as serious as Star Wars. So, for that reason, I will not apologize.’
