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The internet machine: adding kindling to the fire.

It started with a tweet.

“Serioulsy!! A church group just had a protest outside a gay couples house on my street. I live in Toronto in 2010. ” via

Then there was a video of said protest.

The video had not that many views, and not that many people were doing much about it. It wasn’t all that exciting either, but it was a visual. A real “it just happened” example of homophobia being practised in my city. This is Toronto after all. Tolerance is the rule here. How can this happen?

So I sent the tweets and the video to the torontoist a local news blog, hoping maybe it could get a bit more exposure and information on what happened.

That was two days ago. Then, the video had maybe 50 views, no comments (the first comment is mine), and the story was renegated to a local newsblog.

Now?

Xtra has a story. The National Post has a story. The Star does too.
As do a bunch of others. And the blog has about 1000 comments and 75000+ views.

When I first saw that video, I was glad the neighbourhood came out to support each other. Though, lets be honest, it wasn’t the most polite way of doing it, the video doesn’t really preach tolerance does it?.

Now the church group is denying that they were targeting a couple, all they were doing was preaching (In the street, in front of some random person’s house??). In their words “[they would] never stoop to target any group such as gay people. That’s very low.”

What seems like one big misunderstanding, now went viral.

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