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i came across this on tabloid watch. what is so ho...

2009-11-11T15:09:14.551Z

i came across this on tabloid watch. what is so horrific is that the mail et al have now so succeeded in dehumanising immigrants and asylum seekers, so thoroughly created a percpetion of them as being sub human, that people feel comfortable rejoicing in their deaths and not recognising that a human, with family and prospects and a life to live has died. has died!
not to fall foul of godwin's law but this dehumanisation does have terrifying historical echoes and the fact that someone could ask on a forum "millions to go" - to ask for the deaths of millions of people, wtf. completely despairing and hideous.
do people not realise what they are writing? this person who died was just a person.

Ye Gods. That really was vile to read. I dread t...

2009-11-08T20:21:46.223Z

Ye Gods. That really was vile to read. I dread to think what got moderated out first time round.

Hurrah to Hitchens Watch for sending me a reader!

2009-11-02T22:20:40.553Z

Hurrah to Hitchens Watch for sending me a reader!

Hello! Never seen your blog before but noticed th...

2009-11-02T17:12:59.183Z

Hello!

Never seen your blog before but noticed that someone had been referred to Hitchens Watch from here.

Think it's a great idea to keep an eye on the Daily Mail but it's almost like dropping into a sewer to point out the turds.

Down to three now. The 'quite a few to go'...

2009-11-02T15:19:58.967Z

Down to three now. The 'quite a few to go' one is one of them.

Now down to 4 comments, although "1 down and ...

2009-11-02T14:58:34.964Z

Now down to 4 comments, although "1 down and quite a few to go yet" is still there.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224133/Migrant-dead-lorry-prepares-enter-Channel-Tunnel.html#ixzz0ViLqRgjw

I notice the Jan Moir column that caused a bit of bother the other week has also been cleansed of its comments.

That's a pretty vile collection of hateful mes...

2009-11-02T11:25:55.223Z

That's a pretty vile collection of hateful messages from a vile and hateful readership.

I'm genuinely disgusted by this. There's ...

2009-11-02T06:48:33.144Z

I'm genuinely disgusted by this. There's plenty of hateful bollocks in the Mail - from readers and journalists alike - but nothing that's made me lose quite so much faith in humanity as that comments thread.

I've long accepted that a large number of this country's population have far less sympathy towards immigrants than myself, and that a good fifth of them would seriously consider voting for a party that intends to remove them from the country altogether, but it still comes a shock to see an article on the website of a mainstream newspaper (Britain's second best selling, at that) upon which the majority of the comments posted are actually rejoicing in a man's death, and that these comments have been positively rated by hundreds of others. I mean, fucking hell.

(I'm not the same Alex that posted above, by the way)

You know I'm going to download whatever Quo Va...

2009-11-01T22:53:40.945Z

You know I'm going to download whatever Quo Vadis I can find now don't you?

This isn't really to the point, but I was intr...

2009-11-01T22:35:25.001Z

This isn't really to the point, but I was intrigued by the comment attributed to "Mute Requiem". I googled that phrase and discovered lots of references to a song of that name by Quo Vadis, a "melodic death metal" band from Canada.

Further investigation on Wikipedia reveals that melodic death metal is "combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) with the intensity of death metal".

Which prompts two questions: do death metal fans read the Daily Mail? And what melody of NWOBHM is that then? These people clearly never heard the Tygers of Pan Tang

You know what? I think it is! I especially like ...

2009-11-01T22:17:28.116Z

You know what? I think it is!

I especially like the 'why oh why are these lorries not searched at border controls??' one, which misses the fact that the body was found while the lorry was...er...checked at border controls.

Hello there. Is that the 'immigrants get free ...

2009-11-01T21:38:47.607Z

Hello there. Is that the 'immigrants get free cars' myth I see there?