People Are Rightfully Roasting This Actor's Awful Tweet About POSE

FX's incredibly diverse, Emmy-nominated series POSE has been praised by fans and critics for its portrayal of the New York City ball scene during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the '80s and '90s and for giving a voice to the many Black and Brown queer and trans people who were largely ignored by the mainstream gay rights movement. But the series' groundbreaking representation apparently still isn't enough for some people who try to make jokes about it.

"So POSE is just Glee with a viral load now?" Blake McIver, former child actor and star of The Little Rascals, tweeted in a very poor attempt at humor. As expected, not one person found McIver's serophobic joke funny, and people rightfully took to Twitter to call him out:

If you are using people living with HIV as a punchline, then you can go straight to hell. It’s cheap, tactless, and tasteless. Our veterans didn’t put their bodies on the line for this bull shit. Have some respect. — ACT UP New York (@actupny) July 25, 2019

This is in no shape or form comical. — Kalen Allen (@TheKalenAllen) July 25, 2019

I have #HIV antibodies older than you, sir, and never in my life has punching down been hilarious -- or a good career move. That sound you hear is you tumbling down the Hollywood alphabet. #GoodbyeDList — Mark S. King (@MyFabDisease) July 25, 2019

Tasteless & tactless tweets. Get well. pic.twitter.com/lgrqOcwM9A — JOHNNY SIBILLY (@JohnnySibilly) July 25, 2019

This type of sick joke is rampant within many white queer spaces. Attention seeker @BlakeMcIver has a habit of going after Black folks online and then blaming his mental health. Reminder: racism is not a mental illness. pic.twitter.com/XClAt1JWBX — Ian Capstick (@iancapstick) July 25, 2019

Thank you for showing us your true entitled you. May the internet gods drag your sad career into the gutter. — VivaciousNYC (@VivaciousNYC) July 25, 2019

After his tweet went viral for all the wrong reasons, McIver has since deleted his Twitter account. Let this be a lesson for the rest of us out there: this is exactly what NOT to do on Twitter...