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Offline ABX

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War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« on: June 09, 2018, 08:10:37 pm »
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As the politicized side of social media continues to fester through society, war widow Seana Arrechaga has one request: please stop turning a photo of her and her dead husband into a political meme.

Or at least stop sharing it.

The 29-year-old lost her husband, Army Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, in 2011, when he was killed in Afghanistan.

Journalists later photographed her seeing her husband’s body for the first time after he returned to Fort Campbell.

Since then, the Nashville woman said she has been fighting a constant battle to stop faceless Facebook pages from using the image for their own political ends....


https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/06/07/war-widow-stop-using-my-husbands-photo-for-political-memes/
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2018, 08:11:14 pm »
You can see some of the memes at the link. I'm not going to share any out of respect for her wishes.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2018, 08:20:20 pm »

The only place to stop this is where it starts. No pictures of private moments.

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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2018, 08:49:27 pm »
Yet another reason I want nothing to do with conservatism.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2018, 08:54:18 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 09, 2018, 08:49:27 pm
Yet another reason I want nothing to do with conservatism.


On a personal level, people are people and you can find this anywhere.

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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2018, 09:05:50 pm »
It could possibly be a privacy issue.  And though, one might discern that conservatives are the ones who did it, it could possibly go both ways.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2018, 10:24:25 pm »
If it was an official armed forces picture, it's public domain and she can't do squat about it.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2018, 11:23:37 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 09, 2018, 08:49:27 pm
Yet another reason I want nothing to do with conservatism.
It has little to do with conservatism. It's just people misappropriating a photo for their own purposes.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2018, 06:45:23 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 09, 2018, 08:49:27 pm
Yet another reason I want nothing to do with conservatism.
Nothing "Conservative" about exploiting a moment of grief.

I may agree with the sentiment, but I do not agree with the exploitation. There are better ways to make the same point.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2018, 11:39:30 am »
Facebook?

The lady should ditch that which is troublesome.

Sorry for her loss.

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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2018, 06:18:41 pm »
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'Your "patriotism" shouldn't involve exploiting our fallen.'   -- war widow Seana Arrechaga

Amen.
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Re: War widow: Stop using my husband’s photo for political memes
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2018, 10:04:59 pm »
I wondered if that was the same photo Dinesh D'Souza used; going to the source, I see that it was.  At the time, the widow asked him to take it down, but he didn't.

That said, posting it in the first place probably wasn't a good idea, considering how people behave.
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