Kick A Ginger Day Gets Predictable Results
Inspired by a 2005 episode of Southpark where Cartman preaches hatred against redheads by declaring they have no soul, a Facebook group declared Nov. 20 “National Kick a Ginger Day.” How did that turn out? Predictably Canadian:
“Three people saw me and they decided they would kick me. They were much older than me, maybe like 15, 16 years old,” he said. “I became trapped trying to get through this press of people. And that’s when they kicked me from behind and I fell over.”
Mishkin stayed home from school on Friday. His legs were bruised, but his faith in his peers took an even harder hit.
“I was amazed by the lack of compassion in the people that I knew and the fact they would think that this is a fun thing to do,” he said. “I just never thought that people were capable of that before.”
For the love of God, maybe it’s time for the young ginger to grow a pair.
Next we have Katie Marshall, who is described as a *victim* by the *journalist* writing the story. Katie’s story has kept me giggling all morning:
“[I] was just walking down the halls and then a bunch of random people started kicking me and I had no idea why they were kicking me,” Marshall said.
“I started running away and then suddenly one of them said something like ‘Oh, I’m going to kick you. You have no soul, so you probably can’t feel pain either.’”
This won’t be chalked up to a harmless internet prank in which a few ginger-header monsters got their shins and feelings hurt. Oh no,this is Canada, and as I say, the response from authorities is predictably Canadian:
Comox Valley RCMP were investigating the group, saying it potentially involved hate crime.
Cyber-bullying expert Karen Brown said the Facebook group was a serious concern.
“I’m just absolutely appalled,” said Brown, who is a sessional professor and PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University.
“It’s really unprecedented,” she said.
“This is inciting hate,” she said. “This is tantamount to almost a hate website.”
A note to the RCMP and Karen Brown: Settle the fuck down. Take a drink of your non-fat, shade-grown Mexican decaf, relax, everything is going to work out fine.
This is so typically Canadian to take a prank that a bunch of 12 and 13 years old came up with and try to turn it into a hate crime. These kids were having a bit of fun and as often happens with kids having fun, they got a bit carried away. Case closed. To try to liken this to a hate crime is ridiculous. It’s not as if these children were handing out copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Hurt the Feelings of a Jew Day.
As for Karen Brown: Great job scoring a gig as a Cyber-bullying expert. I never knew they offered that in Community college? Karen needs to see this for what it is and stop over-reacting. Karen, armed with only her paranoia, can somehow extrapolate without a shred of evidence that these pre-pubecence children have purposely set up a website advocating hate. No Karen, these kids set up a site for some shit and giggles, unlike you who sees bigots and haters behind every Facebook page.
One thing is for sure, now that the RCMP and mental midgets like Karen Brown have exposed these intolerant, hateful children for the little Eichmann’s that they are, it is guaranteed that next year this whole *Kick a Ginger Day* is going to be 1000x bigger than it already is.
Cartman, was this an intelligence test you instituted?
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November 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
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November 22nd, 2008 at 11:39 am
Moose, Jughead, Reggie, Veronica and Betty are reportedly in jail…Archie is in intensive care.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Ah, Archie was my least favourite Riverdale-ian, anyway.
There IS a sale on L’Oreal hair color at Wal-Mart this week, so redheads have no excuse!
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 am
A note to Mitchieville: Fuck off! Just because its not singling out Jews doesn’t make it kosher. How about next time we have a beat the south park fan day? At least then its trying to improve the gene-pool.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Mayor, do we allow that kind of language here?
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Gingers are just so feisty, it’s refreshing really.
I like the way Ginger used the word Jews, then used the word Kosher in the same sentence, that was very clever.
We sSHOULD have beat a South Park fan day, that would be fun. Gingers should set up a Facebook page and rally around that…call it, “Gingers revenge day on Asshole South Park fans.”
Yes, I like it a lot.
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Gingers have the feisty gene, that’s why. Lucky there’s only 3% of them in the European descendants, because given their propensity for feistiness, they could quite easily form a ginger army to wipe out the Earth as we know it.
Plus we know that gingers have been traditionally repressed by the blond and brunette ruling class. All David Caruso needs is a chance, quite possibly while George Clooney’s back is turned, and he would lead his ginger race to a prominence never before seen by what they refer to colloquially as “the normies”.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Settle down? are you joking? children are kicked and reviled because of their hair color and you say, “settle down, its just a harmless prank”? That’s your useless analysis? South Park uses the “ginger” episode to teach about the nature of intolerance, and for their efforts a real-life “Kick a Ginger Day” facebook group sponsors exactly the same sort of intolerance, but you’re up the pipe because schools acted to protect their red-haired students? You’re off the beam, as badly as the parent who plans to sue “South Park” for airing the ep.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Rocket,
With all due sensitivity to all involved, kids are stupid.
Can’t we all remember this important scientific fact?
November 24th, 2008 at 4:42 am
They had Kick a Ginger Day at one of my sons schools. Too bad for the non gingers that one of the ginger boys is the toughest kid in the school. Once the kicking started, ginger boy happily joined in and mopped the floor with the male population of non gingers.
My son said everyone had a laugh, everyone except for the teachers who suspended 5-6 kids. The gingers were the center of attention, which they loved, there were no deaths, and the gingers are talking about a non-ginger kick day–EXACTLY what we were talking about a few comments ago.
And yes, kids are stupid.
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
People with red hair are a minority just in the same that they do not have control over a physical trait they are born with. Some of them are comfortable with their appearance enough to laugh this sort of thing off as a joke and to them, I applaud you. For those children who are both physically weaker and emotionally bound to their red hair, I feel for you. Already these individuals have to put up with those who bully and take advantage of them, now Canada has a day where the exact same tortuous behavior is encouraged…by ALL students.
If you read up on this in the local Canadian papers, you’ll find kids who were actually roughed up pretty good, getting kicked in the stomach repeatedly I’ve read. Red headed kids have wanted to stay home from school in fear of continued abuse.
Have some empathy for the WEAK red headed kids who already have NO self esteem…they are there and they ARE being abused. What’s worse is everyone who’s not a red head are the ones they must be scared of…take a look around…red heads are not in fellow company. It’s a rare trait and a negative stigma that many people disregard…
They shouldn’t be the BUTT of a joke because of a trait they have NO CONTROL OF!
May 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Heeeyyyy. I’m a ginger and found it HILARIOUS. We can’t say a joke isn’t funny because a few people took it out of hand. Gingers… kick the frick back. The reason kids are so stupid is because they never learn to stand up for themselves and can cry to mommy’s lawyer if he is bullied.
May 13th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Kelsey–you have a good sense of humour though, you don’t seem to be bothered by political correctness. And you’re dead-on right: “The reason kids are so stupid is because they never learn to stand up for themselves and can cry to mommy’s lawyer if he is bullied.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
im a red head and im pround to be one never thought about dying my hair and never will, just thinking about all these stupid comments that people write about ginger people makes me laugh, youd have to be sad sitting at your computer making fun of us, feeling all mighty and powerful, well watever makes you sleep at night cause at the end of the day , people say we have no souls well in the end we will all be judged by god, and i have a funny feeling its your souls that are pretty fucked not ours lol and a good night
June 29th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Keep the faith, Stephen, you’re an inspiration!
October 11th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
my names siobhan and i live in england and the 13th of october is kick a ginger day over hear so on tuesday im gonna havve the shit kicked out of me cos im bright ginger so im pissed of cos people in my form at school are trying to change it to kick a ginger week wich is realy gay and people i like are telling me their gonna kick me and dont care about being puffs cos they get an excuse to kick random gingers.
also random people keep saying i have no soul and that i probebly wont feel it when they kick me sensles on tuesday its nnot bloody fair cos gingers are just normal people and we do feel pain and we have a soul just like everyone else so back of ginger haters gingers rule!!
any way im not scared cos im gonner form a ginger gang 2morrow and were gonner gang up on anyone who kickes a ginger so wach out lady manners hear come the gingers!!
oh yeah as if we would form a ginger army and take over the world the school maybe
see yeah soonxx
October 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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November 30th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I’ve taught my kid to beat the living shit out of anyone who touches him. I seriously hope some dumb-ass retard tries to EVER touch him because of his red hair. I will laugh the entire time my kid is expelled from school for beating senseless the douchebag that touches him. Then I will track down the little shit(s) who tried to do it and beat the hell out of him as well. Double Jeopardy bitches!
Stupid South Park fuckers.