Comments on: PEOPLE SAY THINGS ON THE INTERNET

By: Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » The internet is like poison sometimes

Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » The internet is like poison sometimes — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:43:11 +0000

[...] remember when I did that thing making fun of people commenting on the Internet about a given bit of news? Torontoist asked me to do it again after the end of the Toronto city [...]

By: Uber Geek

Uber Geek — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:16:48 +0000

The way I see it is that the Sri Lankian (sp?) is using a crack down on the Tigers to conduct a genocide on the Tamil minority. They are trying to keep it on the down low, which is why they’re keeping aid workers and journalists away from the conflict.

I think the reason the Tamils are using the Tigers flag is because there is no official Tamil flaf and they’re using it as a symbol.

Finally, I believe that all racists should be beaten to the full extent of the law.

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:30:18 +0000

I didn’t get all the way through those comments but some of them are really unbelievable. The worst one I got to (there may be something worse further down) was the guy who bragged about how “we white people kicked Native butt.” That is fucked up. As is the comment by the guy who called for “enforcement” and actually put quotes around the word so it’d be clear that he WAS calling for police brutality.

Back in February or March I was walking down Bloor and passed a Tamil demonstration on the sidewalk. It seemed to be loud, but peaceful, and wasn’t causing any problems that I could see. I think that’s the best way to protest.

Blocking the Gardner’s different. It’s pissing people off by inconveniencing them, and if you piss people off they aren’t going to be terribly inclined to help you. I don’t see how doing this helps their cause.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:29:34 +0000

Dude, I’m not sure how healthy it is to be collecting news article comments and putting them in one place, let alone responding or even try to comprehend the thought process behind them. Everyone already knows those are the worst.

By: Tetris

Tetris — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:58:10 +0000

Actually, the comments about how cowardly and terroristic it is to use children as human shields make perfect sense. At least if we assume that those comments are made by the same people who are being outraged that the police didn’t use water cannons etc to break up the protest.

By: Z

Wed, 13 May 2009 01:09:53 +0000

I’m disappointed that you didn’t include any comments from the CBC articles.

Yeah, I didn’t recognize any CBCesspool formatting, either.

By: claire

claire — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:57:16 +0000

“Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis denounced the highway blockade as “not the way to go.””

Well no, obviously if there is a blockade you should take a different route. That’s just sense! *eyeroll*

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:38:28 +0000

Wow, that’s depressing.

CATS AND DOGS SLEEPING TOGETHER

Okay, that cheered me up a bit.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:45:41 +0000

Two things.

One, I thought Canadians were universally polite! Where is this tremendous vein of racism coming from?

Two, though I disagreed with 99% of what was spouted off above, haven’t we all wanted to see – and for a while now – a mob of Irish attack, throwing potatoes at passers-by? American or Canadian, I believe that this is overdue.

Also, poutine is gross, and an affront to most everything holy.

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:21:05 +0000

Also, Canadian right-wingers haven’t shown up to post (impeccably spelled) trollish comments here yet. Should we lure them with fresh poutine?

By: dev

dev — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:39:52 +0000

Oh my god, your right-wing xenophobes’ spelling is light-years beyond our right-wing xenophobes’! And the grammar- why, that grammar was relatively impeccable! Can we trade?

By: Evil Abraham Lincoln

Evil Abraham Lincoln — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:51:34 +0000

They blocked traffic, but noone was killed? Canada is sounding better and better to be, because that would never happen in New York. I fear for the protesters who would try to block Queens Boulevard (AKA, the Boulevard of Death). They’d get run over without mercy (and I’m including the people in the sidewalks) before the protest could even begin.

By: Justin M

Justin M — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:37:43 +0000

Dude, you only used that last one so you could rub in my face that you cut out my trenchant observation.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:06:41 +0000

“But even Bird said the protest was illegal. So does the fact no one got hurt trump that it was against the law, and I shouldn’t think they did anything wrong, or what?”

Sorry, badly phrased. What I meant was, I imagine the correct response to the blockade ISN’T “oh gee whiz I wish they’d all go home to Sri Lanka,” “peaceful protest is the greatest evil to face our society today,” or — perhaps most relevant — “my inconvenience trumps the fact that your families are being murdered.”

It may have been illegal but it didn’t HURT — and it’s arguably within the ethics if not the law of a democratic society. Being pissed off that an illegal protest made you late to work is not wrong, but it’s demonstrably different from what MGK lists above, which are largely things like “since they made me late to work they threaten the very fabric of our once-proud nation.”

By: Andrew W.

Andrew W. — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:46:01 +0000

“@Andrew W — I think the point is that, in Canada, there is a right to peaceful protest, even or perhaps especially should such protest inconvenience the citizenry.”

But even Bird said the protest was illegal. So does the fact no one got hurt trump that it was against the law, and I shouldn’t think they did anything wrong, or what?