People are just vile

Any news article shared on social media about the crash and victims has plenty of these sort of vile racist comments underneath. There's no point in pretending these vile racists don't exist when they're growing in numbers and getting bolder by the day.

My first thought when I heard there was one survivor was: ''If God saved a life, it is to bear witness to what has happened''.

Why do some people express grief by saying outrageous things?

The overwhelming majority will be bots created by nefarious influences (eg Russia) keen to create social instability in the UK

I’ve only seen one tweet that says something along the lines of “not being funny, but why is everyone so bothered about a plane crash in India” and everyone else commenting is outraged.

I closed my Facebook account about two months ago because my mental health was definitely being affected by the content. I felt that if I read it that I was then responsible for making sense of it and it's impossible to make sense of the absolute crap thats posted. Also Facebook do not monitor the online abuse that takes place. I feel so much better for not trawling through crap everyday and wasting my time and emotions.

This is the problem with social media it has become toxic. I don't believe the majority of people hold these views, it just feels like that due to the toxic nature of these platforms and the bots / fake accounts that stir up hatred. We need to do all we can to protect our children from some of the worse sites

I've not seen them but that's the sort of thing that would stop me reading a particular outlet/ social media source. I wouldn't go on X or Daily Mail for example as comments are always vile. You cam control what you are exposed to, and as others have said once you start looking at unpleasant content algorithms serve you more

I would refuse to read comments like that and I certainly would not wade in with any comments of my own, this just encourages these sick people.

It's very sad that some people in this life have no empathy or respect whatsoever. 😪

There absolutely is a problem with racism and it's getting worse again. Just a few years back people wouldn't have dared express such things in public, now they're proud of it. We are heading in such a bad direction as a country.

The whole situation is horrific. I hate to think how the survivor will be feeling. I hope he gets all the support possible and is kept of the media.
it’s the same on morning radio, they actually play the 999 calls made before tragic events. We really have no right to intrude on what could quite possibly be the worst moments of someone’s life.
the media are scum. But they are like that to feed the public so in many ways they just reflect us.

There wasn't even a Reform party till ten minutes ago, who were these people voting for then?

I agree, some of the comments haunt me.
I’ve been involved in politics for ten years, have had a lot of doorstep conversations and am well aware most of us live in a bubble.
But these cross lines I thought were uncrossable in this day and age.

Reform voters.

" have no more capacity to think critically than a slug."

Good remark.

Racist jokes/comments? That was going around after the Grenfeld disaster as well. Sadly we have to accept there are a lot of scum in society who take advantage of the fact that they can say what they want without fear of having their skull smashed in. An unfortunate side effect of living in a civilised society.

What does that mean - receipt keeping?

Yep.
Or anything referring to a black/ brown / non-white person as Brit / Scottish / French / Swedish etc is full of comments saying “no they’re not - SEND THEM BACK”.

Anybody objecting to that is apparently “Wokey Left”.

Absolutely appalling behaviour. I work with some really amazing, caring and highly professional colleagues from India and they are all quite unsurprisingly devastated. Some of them have recently flown with air India and know people who have lost loved ones in the tragedy.

To make vile racist jokes or twist it into conspiracy theories is, as you said op, vile.

Guarantee the shoe would be on the other foot if it was a plane full of white brits.

Glad they got chucked out of the surgery.

Racist made the usual noises about ‘but I didn't mean you, you are ok?’

GP reported racist to the police under hate crime.

Racist deregistered from surgery (by the surgery) as relationships have broken down.

I agree with this so much.

Because of social media, there are so many people labouring under the delusion that free speech means their thoughts are important and worth sharing, even if they are pig ignorant and unpleasant and have no more capacity to think critically than a slug.

The new thing seems to be “send them back” on any photo of someone who isn’t porcelain white and has a name that isn’t smith or jones
like he was born in Manchester, where the fuck do you want him sending back to?!

they should probably do their family tree and realise if we had “sent them back” they wouldn’t exist then they might STFU

I have been shocked by the same thing OP.

Suggest you don’t look at social media and read a book instead

That’s helpful. Thanks for that.