What The Fuck?

I was reading the newspaper and found this article, and was absolutely horrified by the comments people had written. 

The article refers to a case in which an Aboriginal woman suffering from depression (post traumatic stress syndrome among other things) threw a clothes rack accross the room in a fit of rage during a fight with her son. She didn’t realise that her grandson was in the room, and the rack hit him in the head and caused severe brain damage. I’ll be the first to admit that that is seriously fucked up, from all angles. 

But the comments people were writing! 

What the fuck is that? Her ethnicity has nothing to do with anything, I find it disgusting that that is the first thing people latch on to when they read an article like this. I can say with great confidence that the verdict would have come out the same way if the woman had been white – it was based around the fact that she is mentally ill after having a very traumatic life, which is demonstrated very clearly throughout the article. What the fuck. Some people are just ignorant. 

The best part? When I posted my reply, I was greeted with a message saying:

“Please note that we are not able to publish all the comments that we receive, and that we may edit some comments to ensure their suitability for publishing. Feedback will be rejected if it does not add to a debate, or is a purely personal attack, or is offensive, repetitious, illegal or meaningless, or contains clear errors of fact.”

So how the hell did that crap get through to being published? I am disgusted. Excuse my excessive swearing in this post, but I just can’t help it. My God.

Australian Olympians Suck.

This makes me angry.

According to a radio report, only 30 of the 400+ Aussie athletes that participated in the Beijing games actually showed up for their homecoming parade in Adelaide. It was estimated that approximately seventeen million dollars of taxpayer’s money was spent on every gold medal won at these games – and yet most of the so called “heroes” can’t even be bothered to show up for a parade thrown in their honor.

I mean, I understand that Adelaide is a fairly small city, and that the parade wouldn’t have been anything compared to those in Sydney and Melbourne. But if the public is forking out an insane amount of money for you to do some trick (e.g. kick a ball around, jump over something, dive off a board) then the least you can do is be appreciative. Or at least pretend to be appreciative.