People are just vile

[holymoly56]

Numerous stories about the tragic air India crash all over my socials at the moment. The comments sections are fucking grim. Racist jokes, racist comments, conspiracy theories about the sole survivor, not to mention the gutter press posting photos and names presumably before passengers have been formally identified and families informed.

It’s as though people have become so detached from reality they just don’t care. The fact so many people actually died in such a horrible way seems to be lost on them. No sympathy, not even a respectful silence…they all just want to stick their two penneth in. It’s really bothered me today.

The May Day call was because of lack of thrust and power failure, an open door wouldn’t cause that. I saw a video of a guy who was allegedly on the same plane on its last successful flight directly before the doomed flight and he said nothing was working on it - lights, steward call button, tvs, which would confirm it was struggling with power already!

Totally agree.
Some bitch put 'good' under a post. They should get done for that and any other racist or nasty remarks. Vile specimens 😡

I’m on FB and haven’t seen anything disrespectful. The thing I didn’t like was the publishing of the photo of the sole survivor in his hospital bed , where’s the dignity / privacy .

Absolutely this. The lack of respect is appalling.

Why? There are news stories everywhere understandably. My feed or algorithms don’t dictate what people comment.

If I had infinite time and resources I would try to alert the employers of these people and see how funny they think it is then.

Never heard such rubbish!

I deleted my Facebook account last year never had Instagram, twitter x whatever it is. I left because I couldn't cope the utter vitriol I was seeing. I think it's horrible how some people behave online.

This is the online world.

Racism is the norm especially on comments on news articles

Yes I agree OP. One of my colleagues was on the plane and I’ve seen multiple posts sharing his ‘story’ which is completely fake information. A fair few colleagues learnt of his passing via Facebook and The Daily Mail articles. The local news has even gone and interviewed a neighbour about him. Absolute gutter press. Hundreds of disgusting racist comments on Facebook posts. It’s been very distressing for people who had friends/family/colleagues on the flight.

This is false.

Everybody gets the same comments on news articles.

X is the most toxic of them all.

I haven't seen that but it doesn't surprise me one bit, it's always the way I am afraid.

People are just horrible nowadays, both on and offline.

Well you aren't missing anything. I've seen a number on Facebook already - especially the conspiracy theories........ It's gross in my view

It has always been thus, but of course social media makes it more obvious. I remember working in a department full of "fine, upstanding middle aged men" in the 1980's. They made vile and utterly sickening jokes about both Lockerbie and the Zeebrugge ferry disasters amongst other things. It disturbed and upset me for a very long time - still does. These men were public school educated, pillars of society in positions of power.

I'm guessing most aren't employed.

I haven't seen anything other than shock and sympathy. I don't really look at news on social media though, so it doesn't come up on my feed.

But yes, there are some vile people in this world.

I'm so sorry to hear this.
It's heartbreaking
Just saw a pic of a family and their little dcs so excited on the plane before takeoff 😢

It’s such an awful tragedy. I can’t stop thinking about all those lives lost 😞 How anyone can make any comment other than a compassionate one is beyond me. These are human beings, they have loved ones!

Have to disagree with you on that. I only have following on my Twitter feed and it's mostly okay. However I did venture into one comment section because the post is from someone I like, just to give sympathy and some of the posts were horrendous - racist and homophobic. I've been doing a fair bit of blocking.

My Facebook is friends and family I know only. I don't venture into a post I don't know and strangely there's been a lot of them.

I agree @holymoly56 it's vile. Take care x

I've not see anything like this, but not surprised. In the UK, Reform are gaslighting people and whipping up racism. So, I guess it's not going to get any better. In fact, the nastiness is going to get worse, I think.

Anyway, OP, the social media algorithms think that you will enjoy this kind of content ... if you don't want to see this, then just stick to traditional media outlet websites and ignore the comment sections.

If you follow the right accounts racism is almost non existent. Maybe an odd stupid random comment in the replies by attention seekers but that's about it.

I maintain the worst are the woke left, 100%. It's currently in the process of eating itself.

I agree, beyond awful. Those poor families, just heartbreaking.

Some of them will be bots and some are trolls who just jump on any bandwagon for clicks. But sadly, many are walking among us and present as nice people in public.

You think ‘the worst’ racism online comes from ‘the woke left’?