National Kick a Ginger Day
p2pnet news view | P2P:- “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 site in question is, Yup, Facebook.
And the story is isn’t even in a Canadian newspaper.
It’s in Britain’s The Telegraph, which points out November 20 was a Canada-wide Kick a Ginger Day thanks to the South Park episode which ridicules red-headed children — “Ginger kids. Children with red hair, light skin and freckles.”
But there are Canadian posts, one of them the Vancouver Sun, which states »»»
When Nanaimo [Vancouver Island] high school student Aaron Mishkin appeared for classes Thursday, he heard his classmates talking about “kick-a-ginger day.”
It was the first the 13-year-old redhead had heard about the online phenomenon, and initially he thought nothing of it.
“But then I left the class, and we have seven minutes to get to the next class, and I was amazed by the amount of people that kicked me along the way,” said Mishkin.
Over the course of the day, Mishkin figures he was kicked or hit about 80 times, all because of a Facebook group, apparently inspired by an episode of the satirical cartoon South Park that urged members to “kick a ginger” on Nov. 20.
In Sooke, west of Victoria, more than 20 students at Journey Middle School were suspended after shocked teachers received complaints they were kicking redheads.
South Park also featured a Kick the Baby episode.
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The Telegraph – Facebook ‘Kick a Ginger’ campaign prompts attacks on redheads, November 22, 2008
Vancouver Sun – ‘Kick-a-ginger day’ left redheads with legs covered in bruises, November 22, 2008
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November 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Let’s have lick a ginger dat now
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
These moron high school kids should have been sent home for a week.
If their parents can’t put up with them at their age why should a high school. Leave them at home to torture their parents I say.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Umm, is South Park technically liable for this event? It’s sad that people would do this do…
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:04 am
That episode of South Park aired back in 2005. And in the episode it NEVER said to kick ginger kids on a certain day. The line above can be meant to say that the show did.
These social networking sites need more moderators to shut down these types of groups. Blaming South Park for something like this is stupid. They need to find who first created the group and kick them off of Facebook and do the same to anyone that would join a group like that.
Its only when Facebook and sites like that start doing more things to punish its members that people will think twice about starting groups like that.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
I guess national mimic a ginger day didn’t go as well as planned.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
HAHHAHAHAHAH Good job cartman
November 27th, 2008 at 7:09 am
South park is supposed to be funny not imitated!! Fucking Morons trying to show off to all their friends how they can gang up and beat up one person.