The following is an excerpt from an editorial letter from The Toronto Star. Cannot even describe how much this, well, annoys me (it angered me too, but I waited until I calmed down a bit until I wrote this). Basically, the newspaper published photographs of young children who were injured in the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan on the front page yesterday. Today, some numbnuts wrote the following which was published in the 'letters to the editor' section.

"What are you trying to do — shore up sympathy for those people over there in that country? Are you trying to put those Afghan civilians in the same category as the victims of the senseless violence of Sept. 11? That's ludicrous. Those kids are probably going to grow up to be so many more terrorist, fundamentalist extremists anyway, better to do away with 'em now. If we start sympathizing with those people then where would that leave us? ..... Might is right, and if the U.S. of A. says we should bomb 'em, then we should. This is no time for dissent and so-called "critical thinking," we're trying to protect our democracy.

Right. So as a Chinese Canadian teenager living in the city of Toronto, I will most definitely grow up to be a drug addict? Or a loud, rude Chinese woman, who spits on the floor and picks her teeth on the bus? Or maybe I will become a "fundamentalist, extremist" Protestant. Gotcha. I guess I can forget my plans for university. Heck, I might as well even quit high school. Why bother? "Better to do away with 'em now", right? (end sarcasm here).

Honestly, it boggles the mind. I can't believe that anyone could write such a callous, unfeeling... ignorant letter. But now that I think about it, there are probably more letters like that, since the Toronto Star only published one. Now that's a little scary.