Shocking doesn't describe some of the comments I saw on Twitter around the time the pilot was downed when I did a search by keyword. The amount of vitriolic hatred and anger was incredible. Way way worse than, say, the "raghead" kind of thing after 9/11. And it was all patriotic team A vs. patriotic team B kind of stuff, nothing I noticed coming from someone angry about years of injustice. It was all about hurt pride. Like they all have a fucking inferiority complex and are going to kill the other side until they give some respect, gonna show them what's what.

As far as the politeness and kindness topic goes, I was just talking with someone the other day on that, it came to me, with the cavaet of judging from immigrants, that inherent in the whole culture, both sides, is a tendency that the women are trained to be kind and loving and the men to be assholes.

oh look, I had left the NYT comments window open and when I went back to close it, here's the first one I see, geez, you think Israel/Palestine is bad...the species is so doomed:

Sujeev

Toronto1h ago

The only solution to the Kashmir issue is elimination of Islam from South Asia. Every other suggestion is a red herring, intended to mask the increasing pace of Islamization of South Asia. As the Pakistani experience indicates, complete Islamization of South Asia will NOT bring peace to Kashmir. Only Hinduization of all of South Asia has the ability to bring lasting peace, not only in Kashmir, but all across South Asia.

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