# Five-year-old Disney Channel star gets death threats **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711 "2014-02-07T00:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/21 "2014-02-07T18:33:16Z")
Sending death threats to a five year old for any other reason is also deplorable. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/22 "2014-02-07T21:01:09Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > As **KoT** notes, this may not actually be a gay thing at all. So these people want the girl to die because they don’t like her acting? Because the way she delivered a line just grated on the ears? The show had a lesbian couple appear in a scene (with the humorous plot device of the girl’s parents being confused over the names of the couple before they met. Hilarious!). Outrage followed from groups like One Million Moms. Now a five-year-old actress on the show is getting death threats. Occam’s Razor, my friend. On the other hand, as mentioned … is there a GOOD reason for people to send death threats to a child? ---
**Author:** ![Falchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Falchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falchion)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/23 "2014-02-07T21:12:50Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > So these people want the girl to die because they don’t like her acting? Because the way she delivered a line just grated on the ears? > > The show had a lesbian couple appear in a scene (with the humorous plot device of the girl’s parents being confused over the names of the couple before they met. Hilarious!). Outrage followed from groups like One Million Moms. Now a five-year-old actress on the show is getting death threats. > > Occam’s Razor, my friend. _That’s_ the connection to lesbians? I guess that might make some sense if the death threats were directed at the actresses who played the lesbians or the producers, or writers, etc. From what little I can glean from the few news stories, “these people” is a singular person. And the messages are devoid of any reference that would link the threats to the show. I would think the “Occam’s Razor” approach is that sick people send death threats to famous people either for attention or simply becuase they’re sick. Which is not to say that it isn’t about lesbians, but I would have expected more evidence of connection. > [@](#): > > On the other hand, as mentioned … is there a GOOD reason for people to send death threats to a child? No. Why would there be? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/24 "2014-02-07T21:17:28Z")
Pointless when the kid probably can’t even read. You really need to threaten them in person. Sneak into their bedroom at night wearing a monster mask, or chase them with a running chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/25 "2014-02-07T21:35:17Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > So these people want the girl to die because they don’t like her acting? Because the way she delivered a line just grated on the ears? They’re trying to get a jump on all the hating she’s goin to get when she turns into a seventeen-year old celeb-monster? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/26 "2014-02-07T22:11:06Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I thought Disney had assassination squads for just this sort of thing. No, independent contractors. They need plausible deniability. The footprints of a giant mouse or duck at the scene . . . it just raises a red flag. You need to go outside the organization. This is a job for Dennis the Menace. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/27 "2014-02-08T00:20:48Z")
Well, if that little girl would just stop making all these controversial casting decisions for the show, she wouldn’t be in this mess, now would she? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/28 "2014-02-08T00:23:46Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Well, if that little girl would just stop making all these controversial casting decisions for the show, she wouldn’t be in this mess, now would she? If you think that’s a joke you don’t know your divas . . . ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/29 "2014-02-08T01:22:53Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > On the other hand, as mentioned … is there a GOOD reason for people to send death threats to a child? > [@Falchion](#): > > No. Why would there be? Never met a five year old, eh? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711/30 "2014-02-08T01:29:43Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > “Mommy, what are ‘death threats’?” > > “Don’t worry, honey. The nice people at Disney are just playing make-believe that someone wants you to go heaven to be with your goldfish, so lots of people will watch your show. You like being on TV, don’t you?” You magnificent bastard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-old-disney-channel-star-gets-death-threats/680711.md?page=1)