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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.
#21 is right. The “ginger” episode of South Park was the complete opposite of what’s happening. Our favorite biggot Cartman was turned into a ginger, so this really has nothing to do with South Park other than the name that they chose to use for red haired, freckle faced people, and Prince George being a “quiet mountain town”.
And you yanks should realize there is a big difference between being racist and tolerant. Most of Canada *is* racist, but we still tolerate each other a heck of a lot better than most in the USA do. Racism here is a lot more focused, in that if we’re stereotyping someone, it’s because they *are* that stereotype. (For the attempt of actually getting this post published, I won’t list any.)
And Steph… Please… Did the article say it was only boys kicking? All I saw was “students”. Just because your sexist comment wasn’t directed at the “empowered” female sex, doesn’t make it less sexist.
Rico Suave,
No the article didn’t say it was only girls and in fact other news articles said that boys and girls did end up getting suspended. But I would be willing to bet that it was a boy that started all of it! Girls tend not to less violent in nature when it comes to bullying and harassment. Girls like to embarrass others with rumors and psychological torment. Boys tend to be the violent ones that fight.
I know it was sexist, that was the point.
This is a hate crime, pure and simple. The RCMP should track those kids down and arrest them.
You forgot Andrew Jackson’s Big Block of Cheese with nary a macaroni in sight.