Social media handles are teaching and revealing the other, indeed the darkest, side of what we call as a healthy society as the strongest and wide-stretched arm of the social media platforms has been filled with ill-ful minds that break the lines of humanity under the guise of criticizing and voicing against the issues and celebrities and such abhorrent comments had surfaced the social media with the call to scrutinize the posts, ban such comments, and take stern action against such people.
Following Dhoni, Vijay Sethupathi has now faced such an obnoxious comment from the Twitter user, who in the name of criticizing him had crossed the lines and personally and purportedly attacked the actor's family. When the CSK team was failing in the current IPL season, Dhoni was surfaced with criticisms and disappointments from the CSK fans and while the team was largely flayed, one of the social media users had gone to the extent of issuing a sexual assault threat to Dhoni's six-year-old daughter Ziva.
The user had posted the sexual comment under the guise of criticizing CSK's consecutive defeats in the IPL and when the comment came to light, it had stirred a nationwide outrage as thousands came in and demanded that severe action must be taken against that particular user for posting the obnoxious comment against the daughter of the legendary cricket player.
Following the comment, Dhoni's family had initiated legal action against the crime after which the user was detained. It had later emerged a question of where our society is heading into with such minds and crimes. It also has stirred the nationwide call that such users must be banned and must be brought under the legal books. Days after the incident, Vijay Sethupathi has now witnessed a similar incident that showcased such minds are prevailing across the country and behind the lens of social media.
Vijay Sethupathi has run into massive flak from the fraternities, political leaders, and Tamil people after they collectively demanded the actor to drop acting in Sri Lankan cricketer Muthiah Muralidharan's biopic '800'. Vijay Sethupathi has unprecedently been caught with the outrage for acting in the biopic of Muralidharan, who turned out to be an ardent supporter of Sinhala leaders Rajapaksas, who killed over a lakh of Tamil people during the civil war.
Following the demands and outrage, Vijay Sethupathi had on Monday announced that he had dropped from the movie and the actor had also posted the statement from Muralidharan in which the cricketer asked the actor to withdraw from the movie due to growing demands and outrages. Hours after he announced that he has dropped the movie, one of the Twitter users from Tamil Nadu took to Twitter and issued a sexual assault threat to the actor's daughter.
The ill-minded user had posted the picture of Vijay Sethupathi and his daughter and went to the extent that his daughter should be sexually assaulted in order for her father to make him understand the difficult lives led by Tamils in Sri Lanka. When the tweet came to the revelation, several users had voiced against him and demanded the arrest of that particular person who issued a sexual threat to Vijay Sethupathi's daughter. The political leaders have urged the police to take action against the user.
Senior DMK leader and Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi said, "The perverse intimidation of Vijay Sethupathi's daughter is not only barbaric but extremely dangerous to the very fabric of our society. Making women and children the soft targets is a cowardly act. The police should take stern action against the perpetrator." Singer Chinmayi Sripaada said, "Why does this crappy society do this? Watch silently when this happens? How are men raised to speak out a rape threat?".
The singer, who also tagged Chennai police and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Adyar, stated "Why is it when adults fight like hyenas, the women and children have to suffer? Shame on all of you who do it and those who watch and remain silent". Several political leaders and activists are staunchly attacking the user for the obnoxious comment against the actor's daughter under the guise of demanding him to drop the movie.
The perverse intimidation of Vijay Sethupathi's #daughter is not only barbaric but extremely dangerous to the very fabric of our society. Making women and children the soft targets is a cowardly act. The police should take stern action against the perpetrator.#VijaySethupathi
— Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) (@KanimozhiDMK) October 20, 2020
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