tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post1767481118992943412..comments2023-05-27T12:03:28.241+01:00Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: Daily Mail comments and the milk of human kindnessFive Chinese Crackershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-10709761023847260122009-11-11T15:09:14.551+00:002009-11-11T15:09:14.551+00:00i came across this on tabloid watch. what is so ho...i came across this on tabloid watch. what is so horrific is that the mail et al have now so succeeded in dehumanising immigrants and asylum seekers, so thoroughly created a percpetion of them as being sub human, that people feel comfortable rejoicing in their deaths and not recognising that a human, with family and prospects and a life to live has died. has died! <br />not to fall foul of godwin's law but this dehumanisation does have terrifying historical echoes and the fact that someone could ask on a forum "millions to go" - to ask for the deaths of millions of people, wtf. completely despairing and hideous. <br />do people not realise what they are writing? this person who died was just a person.sianandcrookedribhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959715300131969670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-5881946716395989312009-11-08T20:21:46.223+00:002009-11-08T20:21:46.223+00:00Ye Gods. That really was vile to read. I dread t...Ye Gods. That really was vile to read. I dread to think what got moderated out first time round.Akelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831868310005824686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-61972689762207627002009-11-02T22:20:40.553+00:002009-11-02T22:20:40.553+00:00Hurrah to Hitchens Watch for sending me a reader!Hurrah to Hitchens Watch for sending me a reader!Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-87036957110616012002009-11-02T17:12:59.183+00:002009-11-02T17:12:59.183+00:00Hello!
Never seen your blog before but noticed th...Hello!<br /><br />Never seen your blog before but noticed that someone had been referred to Hitchens Watch from here.<br /><br />Think it's a great idea to keep an eye on the Daily Mail but it's almost like dropping into a sewer to point out the turds.angrysobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674288680077237267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-32632404890196291982009-11-02T15:19:58.967+00:002009-11-02T15:19:58.967+00:00Down to three now. The 'quite a few to go'...Down to three now. The 'quite a few to go' one is one of them.Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-36114592135117590452009-11-02T14:58:34.964+00:002009-11-02T14:58:34.964+00:00Now down to 4 comments, although "1 down and ...Now down to 4 comments, although "1 down and quite a few to go yet" is still there. <br /><br />Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224133/Migrant-dead-lorry-prepares-enter-Channel-Tunnel.html#ixzz0ViLqRgjw<br /><br /><br />I notice the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html" rel="nofollow">Jan Moir column</a> that caused a bit of bother the other week has also been cleansed of its comments.Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12166699916926098298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-41819840322618082952009-11-02T11:25:55.223+00:002009-11-02T11:25:55.223+00:00That's a pretty vile collection of hateful mes...That's a pretty vile collection of hateful messages from a vile and hateful readership.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-25166979661665525182009-11-02T06:48:33.144+00:002009-11-02T06:48:33.144+00:00I'm genuinely disgusted by this. There's ...I'm genuinely disgusted by this. There's plenty of hateful bollocks in the Mail - from readers and journalists alike - but nothing that's made me lose quite so much faith in humanity as that comments thread.<br /><br />I've long accepted that a large number of this country's population have far less sympathy towards immigrants than myself, and that a good fifth of them would seriously consider voting for a party that intends to remove them from the country altogether, but it still comes a shock to see an article on the website of a mainstream newspaper (Britain's second best selling, at that) upon which the majority of the comments posted are actually <i>rejoicing in a man's death</i>, <i>and</i> that these comments have been positively rated by hundreds of others. I mean, fucking hell.<br /><br />(I'm not the same Alex that posted above, by the way)taizouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17509873435397410630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-87686666007174889512009-11-01T22:53:40.945+00:002009-11-01T22:53:40.945+00:00You know I'm going to download whatever Quo Va...You know I'm going to download whatever Quo Vadis I can find now don't you?Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-45636488570713024632009-11-01T22:35:25.001+00:002009-11-01T22:35:25.001+00:00This isn't really to the point, but I was intr...This isn't really to the point, but I was intrigued by the comment attributed to "Mute Requiem". I googled that phrase and discovered lots of references to a song of that name by Quo Vadis, a "melodic death metal" band from Canada.<br /><br />Further investigation on Wikipedia reveals that melodic death metal is "combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) with the intensity of death metal".<br /><br />Which prompts two questions: do death metal fans read the Daily Mail? And what melody of NWOBHM is that then? These people clearly never heard the Tygers of Pan TangErnie Gogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01044812993148040730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-71250670889456706482009-11-01T22:17:28.116+00:002009-11-01T22:17:28.116+00:00You know what? I think it is!
I especially like ...You know what? I think it is!<br /><br />I especially like the 'why oh why are these lorries not searched at border controls??' one, which misses the fact that the body was found while the lorry was...er...checked at border controls.Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-7512590932052806792009-11-01T21:38:47.607+00:002009-11-01T21:38:47.607+00:00Hello there. Is that the 'immigrants get free ...Hello there. Is that the 'immigrants get free cars' myth I see there?Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08288284218700038061noreply@blogger.com