Tianjin Explosion

          I believe by now everyone's heard about the Tianjin explosions... Well. I honestly did not expect it to hit me as hard as it did. The first I'd seen of it was a video filmed by some foreigners (Americans I'd guess) and I felt rage. Some girl in the background was giggling about it and I just thought... What the hell. People are dying. Families. Children. And you stand there looking at it like it's some sort of light show made just for you?

          A bit after this I went on reddit to see what other news there was, and I saw the same video so I went to read the comments, expecting people to complain about that giggling girl too. Nope. Joke upon joke upon joke about bootleg fireworks and Chinese stereotypes. I sat there, watching the video, and I cried. I wasn't there, I was nowhere close to there. I was watching a video, 30 hours later, and I cried. Yet that girl was just a few blocks away and she was laughing about it? How? Are Chinese people not people then? Does it all of a sudden become an ok thing to joke about JUST because it was China?

          Some people have said the laughing was a panic response. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that. She was laughing from the very beginning of the video, when there was just a small fire. When there was absolutely no cause for panic. So why was she laughing?

          Absolutely sickening. Up until now I didn't believe the American stereotypes about how they think America is the whole world and nothing outside of it matters. Obviously, it's true enough for the most part. Then they defended themselves by saying 'We're not trying to laugh at the incident, but hey, what's life if you can't laugh about it ROFL'.

          NO. Do you think a joke 1 day after the Boston Bombing or 9/11 would be received with thousands of upvotes? I don't think so. It certainly wouldn't have been the top comment.

         I'm capping today off with my respect for Reddit significantly diminished. What used to be my favourite community now just seems like a bunch of callous, insensitive pricks.