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Facebook 'Kick a Ginger' campaign prompts attacks on redheads
The Telegraph, London, UK ^ | 2008-11-23 | Matthew Moore

Posted on 11/23/2008 2:21:20 PM PST by rabscuttle385

The teenager behind a "Kick a Ginger" group on Facebook is being investigated by police after reports of attacks on redhead children.

Nearly 5,000 people joined the online campaign which urged members to "get them steel toes ready" for a day of booting this week.

The website appears to have been inspired by a recent episode of the cartoon South Park, in which a young character called Cartman describes people with red hair as evil and soulless.

Dozens of children left messages on the page claiming to have carried out attacks on "National Kick a Ginger Day" on Thursday, and a girl in Alberta, Canada claimed that she and her 13-year-old sister were punched and kicked by pupils at their school.

The 14-year-old boy from Vancouver who ran the Facebook group has apologised and insisted that it was only meant as a joke, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has launched an investigation and warned that those involved could face charges.

"We do treat this sort of thing seriously," a police spokeswoman told the Vancouver Sun newspaper. "This is sort of inciting hate. It's a hate crime, really."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alberta; assault; blamecanada; britishcolumbia; bushsfault; calgary; cartman; facebook; gingers; hatecrime; internet; kickagingerday; rcmp; redheads; sick; southpark; vancouver
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To: mbraynard; rabscuttle385

Superior to Asian girls ? Naah. And I can already tell the collar doesn’t match the cuffs.


81 posted on 11/23/2008 9:46:46 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’ll have to warn my husband and daughter ;)


82 posted on 11/23/2008 9:50:26 PM PST by Trillian
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To: mbraynard
No idea who she is, but I'd never kick her out of bed!

My first college girlfriend was a fiery redhead. I need a shower just thinking about her.
83 posted on 11/23/2008 11:57:22 PM PST by rmlew (The loyal opposition to a regime dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution are accomplices.)
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To: Salamander

I saw this thread yesterday , but my shibumi-sense told me you’d find it without my help.


84 posted on 11/24/2008 3:43:05 AM PST by shibumi (...so if it's organic, where are its organs?)
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To: Tamar1973

Better hide! LOL


85 posted on 11/24/2008 10:21:57 AM PST by dynachrome (Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: rabscuttle385

Someone being prosecuted for a hate crime against a white person. That’d be a first.


86 posted on 11/24/2008 10:37:05 AM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; retrokitten; Tax-chick

Ginny Weasley is a Biker Chick. She’ll rip out their heart and eat it before their rapidly dimming eyes.


87 posted on 11/25/2008 5:41:02 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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To: CholeraJoe

Anoreth would settle for tearing an arm off and beating them to death with it. (But she can’t get a motorcycle if she wants her inheritance.)


88 posted on 11/25/2008 5:44:37 AM PST by Tax-chick ("And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day." (Is. 2)
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To: Tax-chick

My daughter isn’t a redhead but she threatened to do that to a hockey player who told her women shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the military. I believe he was genuinely afraid.


89 posted on 11/25/2008 5:47:57 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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To: CholeraJoe
I believe he was genuinely afraid.

Well, to be fair, there isn't much socially acceptable resource for a healthy young man attacked by a rabid girl :-).

I have warned Anoreth, who is 5'1" and 105 lbs. fully dressed including hiking boots, that no matter how mean she is, men are bigger and stronger, and so she needs to keep her Attitude Problem in check for her own good.

90 posted on 11/25/2008 5:52:51 AM PST by Tax-chick ("And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day." (Is. 2)
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To: LiberConservative; MathDoc
Want to know the real, true, first and undeniable sign that father time is not just marching but goose-stepping all over you?

The day that you realize that the Ginger/MaryAnne debate must now include Lovey Howell.

91 posted on 11/25/2008 5:53:38 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Tax-chick

My daughter (age 20) is fully grown at 5’2” and 120 lbs and knocked 6’ women unconscious during her soccer goalie days.


92 posted on 11/25/2008 6:03:41 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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