Last night, The Daily Show used One Direction as a quick punchline in a joke about the number of terrorist groups emerging in the Middle East. “A new terrorist group just formed, with one member each from ISIS, al Nusra, al Qaeda, Hamas, One Direction, and the Zetas drug cartel!” joked Jessica Williams.
This was a terrible idea, because it provoked the shrieking, hormonal rage of the One Direction fanbase, rallying around the hashtag #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar.
A very angry One Direction fan posted this on Vine:
The text, if Niall Girls ever removes the Vine, states:
Let’s get serious just for a moment. This is a bit from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The whole thing started off pretty funny until it got to the part where they joked that one member of One Direction is now part of a super terrorist group. It stopped being funny when you think about how one of our boys have been struggling for the longest time about terrorist labels because of the color of his skin & his religious beliefs. This dumb bit is a blatant display of racism that we should not stand for. So please do me a favor and share this so people will know that these types of ‘jokes’ promote ignorance & hate towards other races. And that’s not okay.
To be fair to the fans, this is true: 1D member Zayn Malik, who is half-Pakistani and a practicing Muslim,
Nevertheless, #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar blew up on Twitter last night, with many fans calling on the show to apologize:
And some girls started waging jihad against Williams herself:
And also racism, because Williams is black, and that’s there:
Malik has yet to comment on the situation, but according to the hordes of 1D fans, that’s okay:
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