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| Natalie Harvey had her ginger haired childhood photo hijacked by bullies |
God, I hate Britain sometimes.
After living five blissful years free of ginger abuse here in America, I occasionally forget what a cesspool Britain can occasionally be - but reminders like this are a stark awakening:
Bullied on Facebook for ginger hair
By Katherine Faulkner DAILY MAIL
As a child, her frizzy ginger hair made her a prime target for playground bullies. But last year, it all started again after Natalie Harvey posted a photograph of her childhood haircut on her Facebook page. One message read: “I can’t wait to pull off your wig and reveal your ginger afro hair to everyone. The online hate campaign became so bad that she was forced to call police.
It's ironic that what happened to this lady - her childhood photo getting hijacked from Facebook - also
happened to me (and as a result, my beautiful face now boasts as the
4th highest ranking worldwide for the keywords "cute ginger kid.")
Collectively, Brits have the potential to be such utter shits it boggles the mind - even more so because half of us live in the progressive fantasy in which we somehow imagine ourselves to be more culturally and socially "evolved" in matters of racism and bigotry than the rest of the world. I know Brits who attack America for issues of racism and social justice, while ignoring the fact that this sort of behavior continues back at home.
Yes, it's true that homophobia and racism are aggressively vilified in the UK (in public, at least.) But I think our overly sensitive culture of political correctness hasn't helped reduce bigotry, bullying and abuse - just change the focus of it.
To my mind, the yobs attacking this woman online are the same ones who'd have been using words like "paki" and "nigger" thirty years ago.
The target of the bullying has changed, but the uniquely British character flaw that encourages it hasn't.
Until we start educating Brits that the problem isn't
who you bully, but the fact that you
bully at all, we going to continue seeing articles like this; and Britain will continue to sink lower in my already unimpressive estimation.
And hey - while we're on the subject: What's with the first call in Britain always being to the police?
As sympathetic as I am to the poor woman featured in this news story, I don't understand what she thought the police could do about it.
I think it's pretty pathetic that if somebody says something offensive to gingers, or
offensive on Twitter or gets
caught being racist on a train, the first thing Brits do is call the police.
You'd think with all the stabbings, shooting, burglaries and assaults going on (which make Britain the worst center of
violent crime in the European union) the boys in blue would have more important things to do.
Instead, they're called to weigh in on what is classified as "racism" according to the double standards of our "politically correct" society; and deign what's just the latest iteration of Britain's ongoing yob culture.
