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Broke this one into two parts to cover one of the original news' stories on the subject and then a follow up story covering the teens response.
The first is the story covering the selfie pic:
A young woman on Twitter has received an overwhelming amount of backlash recently because of a cheerful selfie she took at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” wrote Breanna Mitchell, who tweeted the photo on June 20.
One month later, the picture, complete with smiley face emoticon in the caption, went viral and sparked outrage among Twitter users who made the photo a trending topic on Sunday.
“@PrincessBMM How can you be happy and smile in this pic? Do you not understand the horrors and murders that happened here? I’d be crying,” one Twitter user said in response to the selfie.
“The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Selfie. A new low in vanity,” another tweeted.
“@PrincessBMM @ianbhough Did you manage to take any of you laughing inside a gas chamber or maybe one with your head stuck in a cremator?” one user added.
Since Sunday, Mitchell’s original Auschwitz selfie has generated nearly 4,000 retweets and over 2,600 favorites, with many people actually defending Mitchell on the photo.
“Taking a smiling selfie at Auschwitz? Kinda disrespectful, even if unintended. Harassing teenager online because she did it? Not okay,” a user said.
“Y’all acting like the girl took a selfie with Hitler himself, chill,” another tweeted.
Mitchell has been very vocal on Twitter about her chipper appearance during her trip to the world’s largest World War II Nazi concentration camp.
“Omg I wish people would quit tweeting to, quoting, retweeting, and favoriting my picture of my smiling in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” Mitchell tweeted.
“Like apparently is such a big deal that I smiled. Good Lord.”
Once the attention began to pour in, Mitchell seemed to be relishing her newfound notoriety, even retweeting more than 150 of her supporters.
“I’m famous yall,” she tweeted Sunday, in reference to a Business Insider article about her selfie.
Mitchell says she took the photo in remembrance of her father, who passed away a year ago, claiming to have studied the Holocaust with him for years, according to Newsday.
“The trip actually meant something to me and I was happy about it,” she tweeted.
Source
And now the second part that covers the teens response a few days after the first stories begin to appear:
An Alabama teen who faced criticism for posting a smiling snapshot of herself in front of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp, is defending her actions, saying that it was a tribute to her father who passed away.
Breanna Mitchell posted the selfie on June 20 and about a month later, it went viral.
"Honestly, I don't think I would do anything differently because I didn't mean any harm," Mitchell told TakePart Live in a video interview posted to YouTube on July 21.
On July 20, she posted on Twitter, "I'm famous y'all" as her story got picked up by media outlets.
Mitchell's example brings to light the debate over taking selfies in front of sensitive places like Auschwitz and the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
"If you're going to stick your tongue out or make a duck face in front of the World Trade Center, I think that's probably inappropriate," Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of manners maven Emily Post, told ABC News.
Since the social media backlash, Mitchell has received some support from people who have seen her story in the media. Her Twitter profile is now set to private.
"The Holocaust and World War II is the only thing that's ever interested me in history," Mitchell told TakePart Live.
She said it was also her father's favorite part of history. "Whenever I graduated, [my parents] said they'd take me out of the States to go wherever I wanted. [My dad] died one year prior to that photo," Mitchell added. Source
And the image that started the whole story:
Backlash is understandable because of the apparent disrespect in a place where horrid things occurred. But to her, she did nothing wrong.
Sigh..just another Ugly American Tourist story.
The first is the story covering the selfie pic:
Quote:
A young woman on Twitter has received an overwhelming amount of backlash recently because of a cheerful selfie she took at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” wrote Breanna Mitchell, who tweeted the photo on June 20.
One month later, the picture, complete with smiley face emoticon in the caption, went viral and sparked outrage among Twitter users who made the photo a trending topic on Sunday.
“@PrincessBMM How can you be happy and smile in this pic? Do you not understand the horrors and murders that happened here? I’d be crying,” one Twitter user said in response to the selfie.
“The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Selfie. A new low in vanity,” another tweeted.
“@PrincessBMM @ianbhough Did you manage to take any of you laughing inside a gas chamber or maybe one with your head stuck in a cremator?” one user added.
Since Sunday, Mitchell’s original Auschwitz selfie has generated nearly 4,000 retweets and over 2,600 favorites, with many people actually defending Mitchell on the photo.
“Taking a smiling selfie at Auschwitz? Kinda disrespectful, even if unintended. Harassing teenager online because she did it? Not okay,” a user said.
“Y’all acting like the girl took a selfie with Hitler himself, chill,” another tweeted.
Mitchell has been very vocal on Twitter about her chipper appearance during her trip to the world’s largest World War II Nazi concentration camp.
“Omg I wish people would quit tweeting to, quoting, retweeting, and favoriting my picture of my smiling in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” Mitchell tweeted.
“Like apparently is such a big deal that I smiled. Good Lord.”
Once the attention began to pour in, Mitchell seemed to be relishing her newfound notoriety, even retweeting more than 150 of her supporters.
“I’m famous yall,” she tweeted Sunday, in reference to a Business Insider article about her selfie.
Mitchell says she took the photo in remembrance of her father, who passed away a year ago, claiming to have studied the Holocaust with him for years, according to Newsday.
“The trip actually meant something to me and I was happy about it,” she tweeted.
Source
And now the second part that covers the teens response a few days after the first stories begin to appear:
Quote:
An Alabama teen who faced criticism for posting a smiling snapshot of herself in front of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp, is defending her actions, saying that it was a tribute to her father who passed away.
Breanna Mitchell posted the selfie on June 20 and about a month later, it went viral.
"Honestly, I don't think I would do anything differently because I didn't mean any harm," Mitchell told TakePart Live in a video interview posted to YouTube on July 21.
On July 20, she posted on Twitter, "I'm famous y'all" as her story got picked up by media outlets.
Mitchell's example brings to light the debate over taking selfies in front of sensitive places like Auschwitz and the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
"If you're going to stick your tongue out or make a duck face in front of the World Trade Center, I think that's probably inappropriate," Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of manners maven Emily Post, told ABC News.
Since the social media backlash, Mitchell has received some support from people who have seen her story in the media. Her Twitter profile is now set to private.
"The Holocaust and World War II is the only thing that's ever interested me in history," Mitchell told TakePart Live.
She said it was also her father's favorite part of history. "Whenever I graduated, [my parents] said they'd take me out of the States to go wherever I wanted. [My dad] died one year prior to that photo," Mitchell added. Source
And the image that started the whole story:
Backlash is understandable because of the apparent disrespect in a place where horrid things occurred. But to her, she did nothing wrong.
Sigh..just another Ugly American Tourist story.
