Ushna Shah is not your typical celebrity. She’s blunt, upfront and likes to speak her mind, whether you like it or not. However, one of her tweet got her schooled by the internet on being privileged and demeaning a delivery guy:
https://twitter.com/ushnashah/status/1183500997253046272?s=19
https://twitter.com/ushnashah/status/1183501899804413952?s=19
Her tweets sparked quite the controversy and people were coming for her:
are you alright? you demeaned a person in the food service industry when they are already overworked and underpaid, shame on you.
— Atiya (@bhumrobhumro) October 14, 2019
People were shaming her for her attitude:
Insan banain, bandar ki bacchi nahi hain aap, insaniyat paida karain.
— Haider (@RizviSaahib) October 14, 2019
Shots were fired:
https://twitter.com/ArifCRafiq/status/1183806925894537218?s=19
People were hoping that she’d find the delivery guy and apologize:
https://twitter.com/IssamAhmed/status/1183709045150179328?s=19
And that too in a country where the rabies vaccine is barely available:
I think that is a bit too much. It's natural to be scared of a dog. Mard banke kutte se katwa ne ka shauq kisi mard ko nahi hota. Phir 14 injection bhi .
— Rehan Tariq (@RehanTR) October 13, 2019
After facing a ton of backlash, Ushna decided to elaborate on the situation, and honestly it only made things worse for her:
https://twitter.com/ushnashah/status/1183662300454162432?s=19
https://twitter.com/ushnashah/status/1183662499285131265?s=19
People were even more furious now!
You even trying to defend this is flippin hilarious and shows how effed up we are as a nation. Bahan ji, his duty was to deliver it to you, not to get inside your house and put it on the table or whatever for you.
— Waqas Bhatti (@waqasbhatti) October 14, 2019
We’re just as confused as you all are:
https://twitter.com/anonentity99/status/1183675152371978242?s=19
Many called it bullying:
no, this says a lot about you as a person. this was bullying. not everyone is comfortable around pets. kuch tou aqal istimal ki hoti.
— 🌱🍉 (@thestressedsoul) October 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/a_kela_banana/status/1183721587947819008?s=19
People thought it was elitist:
Honestly, not the delivery guy's job to have to deal with pets. Inconsiderate and, frankly, elitist. You should have put the dog away before the guy showed up and had to be humiliated. Hope you tipped handsomely on account of this.
— asad (@sadizid) October 14, 2019
Like we said, it only made it worse for her:
That literally doesn’t make your story any better.
— Humeira♦️حمیراء (@humeiraajaz) October 14, 2019
It really did:
https://twitter.com/waqas_x/status/1183713262531166208?s=19
But instead of apologizing, Ushna came up with a 5 note long justification, like literally a 5 note long justification, we’re not even exaggerating!
And people were literally done with her at this point:
https://twitter.com/anonentity99/status/1183755619444105223?s=19
Itni lambi karnay ki zaroorat nahi thi, all you had to say was “i am sorry for my pathetic behaviour & i ll try to work on it.”
— Osama. (@ashaqeens) October 14, 2019
Some pointed out what the real problem was:
https://twitter.com/nidkirm/status
/1183744279761563648?s=19
You scared an underpaid hard worker at 2:30 in the morning by your by a dog(that probably lives on more than delivery boy's complete family) and you think it's about sexism.?
— wains (@saniwains) October 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/han3yy/status/1183774269089767425?s=19
Okurrrrr!
https://twitter.com/sark_10/status/1183761770193641472?s=19
Agreed!
https://twitter.com/Bluemagicboxes/status/1183760181160751105?s=19
One word, woman!
5 paragraphs instead of one word #BigEgos
— Zammad Ahmad (@Zammad) October 14, 2019
Too damn high, there’s no beating her:
https://twitter.com/McPr0zac/status/1183724382914519040?s=19
The more you speak…
https://twitter.com/dearmy_april/status/1183764690209558528?s=19
Add a pinch of empathy too maybe?
shabash delete kar kein dubara koshish karein, shayad hojaye
— Anas Tipu (@teepusahab) October 14, 2019
I think ek dafa aur try kar lein
— Umair Javed (@umairjav) October 14, 2019
Ours too!
My best part of this diatribe was 'desperate times call for desperate measures'. Apparently in the woke world, not having your pizza physically brought into the house at 2:30 am is considered an emergency. Oh and not everyone like dogs, trust me it's not a Pakistani problem.
— Sameer (@only1sameer) October 14, 2019
People were tweeting out her next move:
https://twitter.com/waqas_x/status/1183771621544382464?s=19
Savage!
Four lots of further codswallop to cover up the first one. Salvage your celebrity status now as best you can. There’s not much left of it.
— Saffina Ellahi (@SaffinaEllahi1) October 14, 2019
Many came right back at her:
you haven't acknowledged jackshit, you're simply doubling down on your pathetic behaviour towards a service worker & blaming *society* for being rude & obnoxious.
— AZ (@azkhawaja) October 14, 2019
Aur kya!
All she's trying to explain is that it's OK to be sexist, rude and condescending towards people beacuse that is how our society is sometimes and there's also nothing classist about it at all.
Itni si baat samjh nahi arahi kisi ko!!
— 𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕥 (@basit_arbi) October 14, 2019
And by now, you’d probably expect Ushna to say sorry, but nope, it never happened:
https://twitter.com/ushnashah/status/1183740421572321280?s=19
And people had only one thing to say:
Girl don’t embarrass yourself.
— gulebadaam (@gulebadaam) October 14, 2019
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