Archive for July, 2010

For those of you who might not know, Love Parade is a music festival, better yet, a celebration of electronic music, peaceful gathering, a dance party, that occurs every year in Germany and attracts over a million people.

Yesterday there’s been a tragedy at Love Parade where nineteen souls were lost and five hundred something were hurt because they were ran over and crushed at the tunnel entrance that leads to the outdoor event. It is a very tragic way to die. My heart and prayer goes to all these people and their loved ones.

But, I’m here to talk about an even more tragic event. One that was troubling and evoked rage within myself as it was displayed in my face: Reading comments from people about the Love Parade Tragedy on the Yahoo News site.

I just can’t believe how careless, immature and dumb the comments are. Here’s a few example below:

“They’re only German’s for god sake. It’s not as if somebody important died. Future Nazis. Nuke the whole country.”

“Sausage fest hahaha.”

“what do you expect, it is Germany after all and they like it rough.”

“I thought all good Nazis learned how to march. The Germans and the Japs should all be destroyed.”

And it goes on and on like this. Nazi slurs, homophobic slurs, just some of the meanest comments I have ever read about a tragedy where innocent people died. It’s like, all of the dumbest people gathered last night to comment on a subject. Just pure ignorance. And there are hundreds of comments like the ones above!

What is the Internet becoming? But more importantly, where is all that rage and hatred found on comment sections and blogs come from?