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" It&amp;#039;s a genuine question. I&amp;#039;m not saying Pitbull (real name: Armando Christian P\u00E9rez) is secretly Joni Mitchell or anything; I think we can all agree that his songs blow, unless perhaps you are rolling on E at a rave in 1999. I&amp;#039;m also not vouching for Pitbull personally, because I don&amp;#039;t know him \u2014 although Wikipedia says that he got arrested for drunk driving in 2007, and that&amp;#039;s no good. While I have no real feelings on Pitbull himself, I have noticed a disproportionate amount of Twitter hate for him, which I have illustrated below.  Obviously Twitter is infamous for its mob mentality, all piling on someone at once until the next easy-to-mock chump comes along. And the Pitbull-trolling didn&amp;#039;t stop there \u2014 the Kodiak, Alaska episode (remember that?)&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;illustrates just how vehemently people hate the guy, as well as his good nature for actually going out to Kodiak and putting on a show. Pitbull isn&amp;#039;t an enemy of the state, or a racist, or some other variation of hate-spewing pond scum who&amp;#039;s often (fairly) attacked en masse on Twitter. He just seems like a garden variety tool, like any number of middle-aged Billboard 100 &amp;quot;artists&amp;quot; who feature on more famous people&amp;#039;s tracks and dress like wannabe-cool dads at awards shows. And as far as I&amp;#039;m concerned, there are tons of equally \u2014 if not more \u2014 reprehensible celebrities out there, molesting, raping, hate-spewing, battering and generally using the toga of citizenship to throw a toga party. There&amp;#039;s Chris Brown, Alec Baldwin, Mel Gibson, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Woody Allen, Eminem, R. Kelly\u2026 you can go on and on. While they were on vacation in Ireland in 1987, Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey hit and killed two women with their car. You know how many women Pitbull has killed in car accidents? 0.00 women, that&amp;#039;s how many. (And the Honda commercial Broderick starred in a few years ago shows roughly how much he&amp;#039;s dwelled on the accident since.) Ultimately, what&amp;#039;s Pitbull guilty of? Being lame, right? And that&amp;#039;s it? The hatred seems a little bit disproportionate. It should be saved for things that truly deserve it, like Sea World or die-hard Second Amendment advocates or Justin Bieber&amp;#039;s graffiti. So I&amp;#039;m asking you guys: Did Pitbull Instagram a picture of a koala he murdered? Did he ruin Christmas? Unless someone informs me that Pitbull actually assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and started World War I, the way I feel about Pitbull is the way I feel about actual pit bulls: Mostly harmless and unfairly maligned.  Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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