Thursday, October 19th, 2006...10:50 am
The Star’s Comment Section Brings Out the Best in Everyone, Doesn’t it?
A story in yesterday’s Star about the controversey in the Sunnyside School District over the botched removal of Raúl Bejarano as Superintendent and the coup d’etat against Eva Carillo-Dong as Board President illicited the following reasoned, rational, level headed example of the vox populi:
Now Kathy Dong (who is not an elected board member) is wrecking havoc on the board as revenge for Mama’s dismissal as President. BTW, is ‘Dong’ a North Korean name? (North Korea was testing Taepo-Dong missiles recently) This is not NORTH KOREA. We live in a democracy. If you don’t agree with how an elected official is acting…you vote he or she out of office! That is exactly what Dong’s fellow board members did and you should not act in retaliation against democracy.
Nice. The e-mail also accuses Eva Dong of being connected with people who slaughter goats. I don’t get it either.
I suppose if this was the fifteenth or twentieth comment, I could see that a discussion could degenerate into this sort of ugliness. But, this was the very first comment. I’ve seen this sort of thing with many of the on-line comments on Star stories. What is it about the comment section that seems to bring out the racists?
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October 19th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
I’ll bet the guy thinks North Korean is a language.
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