New York Post cover blasted over tasteless Jared Fogle ‘joke’

Reaction was mostly negative from Twitter users in response to the Post’s tweet blaring the cover:

Responding to rapists getting arrested by joking about prison rape just normalizes rape as a form of punishment. https://t.co/ppjHcKF9jd — Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) August 20, 2015

@nypost Rape is rape. Prison rape is rape. You support rape? Sick.

— Rabid Badger (@rabidbadger) August 20, 2015

.@nypost pic.twitter.com/j8ZCJSiQM3 — Michael Curry (@mcurryfelidae07) August 20, 2015

The Post wasn’t alone in writing the same alleged joke, because a search on Twitter shows the same punchline being made by lots of people over the past few days. In response, people have been calling out those jokesters alerting them how distasteful that joke is, even if Fogle is a human masquerading as a steaming pile of trash:

maybe the answer is yes, maybe no, but worth thinking about bc the odds are high that survivors are reading yr tweets.

— netflix & shrill (@theshrillest) August 19, 2015

Hey guys, instead of making a joke about Jared Fogle, donate to places like @Childhelp. — Danielle Campoamor (@DCampoamor) August 18, 2015

Yet, leave it to Vice to actually find the angle we’ve all been secretly wondering: How will he be treated in prison? One prisoner told them that because of Fogle’s notoriety, he’ll likely be signaled out and harassed by his fellow inmates.

“His best bet is to do his time in segregation where no one can get to him,” they said.