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globeandmail.com: RCMP probe B.C. teen for Facebook’s ‘kick a ginger’ forum — This is one weird story. What is wrong with these people? What kind of town is Prince George, anyway? What is the IQ of people who copy the cartoon characters on South Park? So many questions, so little time.
The RCMP in British Columbia are investigating the teenage administrator of a Facebook group that urged members to “get them steel toes ready” and kick a redhead.
The group – called “National Kick a Ginger Day, are you going to do it?” – had nearly 5,000 members and put schools and the RCMP on heightened alert Thursday to the possibility of redheaded children being assaulted. In one case, a redhead in Prince George, B.C., was kicked 18 times before being allowed to go home.
“It’s very disturbing,” RCMP spokeswoman Constable Tammy Douglas said yesterday. “Whenever you get a group, especially a large group of people like that, who are trying to incite violence toward a group of people, based on something as simple as the colour of their hair, it’s pretty disturbing.”
The idea for the group appears to have stemmed from an episode of the popular animated television show South Park. In the episode, the character Eric Cartman launches a campaign against “gingers” and calls them disgusting and inherently evil…
The day the group devoted to kicking a redhead came in the middle of Bullying Awareness Week.
You ask: “What is wrong with these people?” And the answer is they are hoomans. Like you and me. Dismiss them at your peril.
Thought experiment: look inside yourself for the same belief system/human failing. Its there. Different subject, different trigger, but still there.
Until you see yourself in every other stupid human being, you aren’t awake.
So, stupid people shouldn’t watch stupid TV programs.
Why? Well, maybe because they won’t understand what’s really going on with those superficially stupid programs with sick or twisted ideas.
Some people just don’t get it, and worse, they get it wrong, so that’s why some programs that deal with irony and use reverse psychology to make fun of twisted minds, shouldn’t be allowed to be watched by some simple-minded public.
That or do the hardest thing: educate, elevate their IQ so they can understand how to deal with ironic story lines. -.-‘
Bobbo,
Please refrain from answering rhetoric. Soon you’ll be feeding trolls!
That being said, Prince George is an appropriate substitute for South Park. Mountainous and hicktastic.
When you can see the Yukon from your own backyard…
This has happened in a number of places through out B.C. and has been widely reported here.
It is despicable. It has also highlighted the fact that many schools ignore the bullying problems they have and hope it goes away.
As for “what is wrong with these people” – keep in mind these are teenagers, in Gr 8-12, so between 12 and 17 years old. Obviously they should know better, and should be taught better, but they are young and have poor judgment.
So far the actions have been appropriate: 1 days suspensions for most, longer suspensions for the “leaders”, etc.
#2–Named==trolling? An open door invitation to something more than rimshot humor?======perhaps.
Still, when you find these failings in yourself, you can correct them. If you don’t even look, or recognize the probability – – – – – –
The postings about people charged with bogus sex crimes comes close enough to this issue. What else is society doing but punishing the ginger people?
etc.
I live about 25 miles west of Toronto and kids around here at the youth centre where I volunteer were taking part in the facebook groups. It stuns me that, when I confronted some of them about it, they didn’t comprehend how this was ideologically the same as beating someone up because they were black or gay or any other identifiable group. Shameful.
WTF,
Maybe we should institute “Kick a Canuck Day”. Apparently these tards can’t distinguish between reality and a TV show.
When frustrated, lash out to easy targets.
Many adults born in BC are highly frustrated at being displaced by the arrival of so many Asians.
It’s bound to overflow to the kids. Why gingers though? Gingers are also persecuted in the UK.
BTW–I’ve been to Prince George. Beautiful place in the summer, air and light have a special “other world”/clean/fresh quality that is rare and worth experiencing. Home of Anne Shirley who hated her ginger hair. I remember rolling hills, no mountains.
Bobbo…must have been a different Prince George from the one I lived in for twelve years. My PG, the one this story refers to, is a pulp mill town. I guess the air may have an “other world” quality…it’s the worst in the province. As for Anne Shirley, didn’t she live in Prince Edward Island, about three thousand miles away?
At least you watch South Park, JCD. I’m glad you’ve retained one redeeming quality.
What’s the matter with these people? The problem is that the further you get from Toronto Canada, the more nuts and flakes you get. Once you get to BC, these people can barely feed themselves. The local “bud” doesn’t help either.
You American’s have the same problem with the flyover states. Once you get past the natural ruling parties of the east coast, the IQ starts slipping.
#8–Bill==thanks for the correction. I get those “Princes” mixed up.
Steve Canuck…LOL…good sarcasm…you had me going there…
Bobbo: no problem. One of our own dear politicians, the execrable Hedy Fry of Vancouver, notoriously claimed in the House of Commons that crosses were being burned on the lawns of Prince George even as she spoke. Turned out to be some incident in the PG that’s a suburb of Washington DC. And she was just re-elected….
Let them kick this here ginger and see if they will still be standing when they get a return punch to the nuts…
Yes that is gender inclusive language because we all know only boys would be stupid enough to instigate this crap.
(With hands over my nuts) isn’t that “gender EXCLUSIVE” -?- or do all the girls have nuts like yourself?
The ginger girls in Canada have balls. Obviously.
Bobbo that means that I specifically said “nuts” and not “nuts” followed by female anatomical parts because this sounds like stuff that only boys would do to pick on others. Maybe I used it wrong Captain Grammar. My point is that boys are mean and more so use violent ways of being mean, like kicking.
In the words of South Park: “Blame Canada!”
#16–Stephanie==grammar goes to syntax and structure. Your misuse of inclusive instead of exclusive is one of word “choice” not grammar.
When one makes such lexicographical errors, its hard to trust the factual point being attempted. When that fact is one of express sexual discrimination, the point is even more removed.
That said, I agree. I only worry you miss the point that boys are that way because the girls are always impressed by such things. Or maybe, its just the bad ones of the breed.
OK just to clear things up, the South Park episode that deals with ‘Gingers’. Cartman begins with a report about how repulsive they are and how it’s caused by a genetic mutation called gingervitis and gingers are freaks. So Kyle and the gang decide to teach him a lesson by visiting him at night in his bed knocking him cold as he sleeps, dyeing his hair red, bleaching his skin, and painting freckles. Cartman in true form then decides to organize the Gingers in order to wipe out the normals. In the end Kyle has to whisper a confession to Cartman just before the massacre begins, and Cartman must convince all the gingers he made intolerant to be more tolerant to get himself out of that situation.
It’s about intolerance and it’s nothing new. It certainly isn’t a canadian monopoly. In fact if I were looking for intolerance, I’d look a little further south.
#19–amodededoenasopen: the take away here is that artificial differences between people should not be used as a basis for discrimination and hate. As you were explaining the self evidence South Park episode to us I thought you got it, but you lost it right at the end there. Yea, look South!
Dope.
I didn’t know what a “Ginger” was until this post.
I have a soft spot for “ginger” women folk. I have often thought about doing things with them, but not kicking them! I figure all males who don’t love red-haired women must be homosexuals.
Isn’t having a soft spot a bit inconsistent with loving women, ginger or not?
Canadian, idiot – John, you’re being redundant!
BTW, that would be a lot of peeps to kick, considering all the Scot/Irish descendants there. Ah, yes…tolerant Canada.
HAR!
So Bobbo, should I call you Saint Syntax and Sir Structure now?
Sometimes it is hard getting past all the pseudo intellectual ramblings to really understand your point as well.
@brendal said: Something completely ignorant and stupid.
I grew up in Prince George (lived there for 20 years) and still have family there. It is a small town like any other struggling along as best it can. I would say there are a lot of people there that need to go out and see the world.
Having said that, this can happen anywhere. Prince George has its share of faults, but no more than anyplace else. Unfortunate that it makes the news this way and not for some of the good things that happen there.
If anybody kicks my ginger tabby Maine Coon, I’ll kick their ass!