The violence in South Sudan has escalated recently, with hundreds killed in the fighting. Recently, freelance journalist Hannah McNeish wrote a post for Yahoo! News which had witness accounts of the violence, in particular a massacre of over 200 men, where the only 12 survivors were able to escape by hiding under corpses for days.
However, instead of eliciting sympathy and horror, the majority of the comments to the article were of a very different tone. den c wrote, "just more blacks. same as in the us." Commenter mark said, "no different than any other black neighborhood," while user Santiago Curse declared, "Monkeys."
Only a few of the commenters declared their sympathy of the victims, while one lone user, Tom, stated, " I've read a lot of unpleasant, ignorant, inhumane, misanthropic idiocy on comment boards before. This one really wins though...You should be disgusted with yourselves."
A very Merry Christmas indeed.
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