Fan At SDCC Killed While Crossing Street; In Other News, Humanity Still Sucks

[filkertom]

Sadness, and anger and disgust.

To quote this article:A woman collided with a car as she tried to cross a street outside San Diego Comic-Con today in a bizarre accident that took the Twilight fan's life

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[starmalachite]

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[filkertom]

I only wish I could say I'm standing up to 'em. I'm doing so only in the sense that I'm not posting my opinion anonymously. But I'm in a venue they'll likely never see, and if they did they'd simply lump me in among those to be mocked.

But... calling attention to them, saying aloud that I think they're awful people for making such sentiments known in the public square, eases my soul, however slightly. Maybe it's foolish, but it's the kind of thing I can't shut up about.

[mimiheart]

I've given up hope. Considering that people were also defending Daniel Tosh's 'joke' yesterday -- not that he had a right to say it, I agree that he had a right to say it, no matter how tasteless it may be, but that it was funny, somehow. I just don't get it.

Someone died, people. Not a violent criminal. Not a terrorist. Someone with a family. She may have liked something that you don't like, but that's not a reason to wish her dead. Ugh.

[thistlethorn]

I'm pretty sure that trolls aren't human. Imagine that poor woman's family reading those comments. That just makes me nauseated.

[pandoradeloeste]

No, I reject the notion that trolling is done by inhuman monsters; it erases the ease and banality of the harm we can do. A person is behind each and every one of these horrible comments, possibly someone whose comment I saw and liked on a funny post the other day. A person trivialized the death of another person because of their choice of reading/viewing material.

(If we make it so that only evil monstrous horrible people do [bad thing], it's too easy to say "I'm not an evil monstrous horrible person, so I can't do [bad thing]". Or worse, "I know [person], and ze's not an evil monstrous horrible person, so ze couldn't have done [bad thing you say ze did]".)

[filkertom]

Which is why the tag is "human monsters". They're all too human. They're part of the same tribe as us, and the same tribe as TwiFanG, and they don't even know it.

[bryanp]

Pathetic excuses for human beings. Have I made my share of Twilight jokes? Of course I have and I'll make more, but this is just vile.