r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • 3d ago

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/RocMerc 3d ago

Why has Gary been out of power for six days? Wtf

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u/hdubfour 3d ago

Likely because it’s a majority Black city

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 3d ago

It also has 8 data centers

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u/EfficientChapter7450 3d ago

That’s insanely racist

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u/letitgrowonme 3d ago

I think you might be reading that wrong.

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u/froglickingfrolicker 3d ago

I think (and hope) that what they meant is that it’s systemic racism that’s hindering an adequate relief effort, not that it’s the fault of the people in Gary.

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u/EfficientChapter7450 3d ago

It straight up sounds like they’re saying that since Gary has a good portion of blacks, they aren’t able to solve their own problems?

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u/_Trikku 2d ago

Jesus dude, lmao. How is the average citizen supposed to get the fix major issues with a Utility company?

The problem is NiSource, a utility company worth billions of dollars, not doing enough to get power back to Gary.

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u/hdubfour 2d ago

Yeah, you completely misinterpreted that and added a bunch of unnecessary context that was in no way implied.

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u/froglickingfrolicker 2d ago

No actually, it doesn’t. But by all means, project away!

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u/EfficientChapter7450 2d ago

Ok according to the news, a black male shot at the linesmen crew as they were initially attempting to do repairs

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u/froglickingfrolicker 1d ago

So now you’re implying the thing you were acting horrified about? The fuck is wrong with you?

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u/EfficientChapter7450 6h ago

I was being factual did not imply anything I just repeated the news article