By Nanci G. Hutson
Staff writer
Hutson starts off this article by giving background knowledge on both Christmas and Hanukkah. But mainly she goes through how Jewish people will spend Hanukkah; she pulled quotes from people in different areas of CT that the Danbury News Times cover. What Hutson really tries to show is how the Jewish religion and Christian religion are incomparable and that Hanukkah should no more be called a “Jewish Christmas.”
But if I’m being honest, the real reason why I choose this article to blog about is because of all the comments this article got. If you are unaware with what comments means, it is with any online article for the Danbury News Times(and most newspapers) you can leave a comment on the article. This article has already had 75 comments by noon. The majority of these comments were not to tell Hutson how much they like her writing or how they loved the topic of discussion but to cowardly fight online about religion and the celebration Hanukkah and Christmas. This comments were racist and downright mean.
Quotes like this is what is wrong with America, espically around the Holiday Season.
“Jesus was a Jew. You pray to a Jew. You worship a Jew. If Jesus wasn't killed, you'd have no Christian religion. Next time you meet a Jew, go up and say Thank You. Until then, go crawl back under your rock, you puny-brained religious bigot.”
“Hannukkah Chanukah, how many ways are there to spell 1 holiday? or is it holidae? who knows. All I know is menorah's stink, dradles are boring, and Jews love pennies because it's the closest thing to gold they have. I heard an old folk tale that the grand canyon was created by a few Jews looking for a quarter. It just might be the truth”
2 comments:
Oh my gosh - I cannot BELIEVE some of those comments! The people who post such hateful messages behind the veil of anonymity that the Internet provides are nothing but cowards, and I'm honestly disgusted. If anything, this time of year should be more about tolerance and love. Clearly these readers didn't get the memo.
These comments definetly show how non-confrontational people can be. Have you ever heard of people yelling things like this in front of each other? Nope. This is definetly a big example that shows how people can say what they want anonymously over the internet- but can't say things to people directly.
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