Online discourse in this country

I should be marking, but this piece -- or rather, the comments on it -- caught my attention. Let me say from the outset that my secondary-school self was never especially fond of Ong Teck Chin (or Drong, as we used to call him) as a person. But his resignation, welcome though it may be, isn't the issue here. The issue is just how ridiculously bad some of the comments on the piece are. I won't dignify them by citing them, but they run the gamut from tangential homophobic rants to blatant factual errors to unsubstantiated accusations to...well, see for yourself. To be fair, there are a couple of sensible posters, but in situations such as these, the trolls always tend to win.
Posted by kungfuzi at 7:59 pm | 0 comments