I need to vent!

So while reading the news articles on my homepage I came across an article about the explosion at a Slim Jim factory in NC. 20 injured including 5 with critical burns on 60% or more of their bodies,and 3 missing. I clicked on the message board because occasionally there is more information. I was amazed by some of the comments I found.

"This is obviously the work of those Obama loving, liberal terrorists. They hate Jesus and Slim Jims"

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"Meat processing plant....Hmmm, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Illegal aliens. I wonder if an illegal who couldn’t speak English was smoking next to a natural gas line.

No está permitido fumar, dummy."

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"ConAgra, one of the largest employers of illegal aliens in the country. Get one that can't read (English or Spanish) and you are asking for a disaster. Hopefully all of the Americans are safe and alive."

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And here is a comment posted after a former employee at the factory pointed out that the majority of the employees were Caucasian and African-American. Trying to deflate all the illegal immigrant talk...

"I live in NC and I can tell you the illegal alien population has grown exponentially in the last 15 years. The African-Americans who used to work there are probably unemployed now."

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And another defended these comments when others became offended by saying that "...it is human nature to find comedy in tragedy" and, "remember the space shuttle blowing up??
next day I heard this joke. The teacher on the shuttle had blue eyes, one blew this way and one blew that way.. "


That wasn't appropriate either! Why is it that these people don't even consider that those lost or injured have family that are grieving. There are people in the hospital fighting for their lives and others are making jokes. It is just cruel and wrong.

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I am just amazed at how tragedy can bring out all the ignorant bigots. Nowhere in the article does it say what caused the explosion. Nor does it mention anything about the nationality of any of the victims. All these comments just arose out of sheer stupidity. For every sincere comment about prayers for the families and the injured there were 3 like the ones above.

To take a tragic occurrence and use it to push these narrow minded views makes me ill. No wonder so many countries think Americans are assholes. These are the people representing us! I pray that the families of those missing don't stumble across these comments.