Opinion: Sherwood Park blast shows online hate is selective
In the last few days, I have been thinking about an old folk tale from the 13th century Turkish satirical mullah Nasruddin, about the apocryphal “wise fool,” Hodja.
Hodja gives his son a jug to fetch water, but before he gives it to him, Hodja slaps him. As his son starts to cry, a bystander asks, “why did you feel the need to hit him?”
“In case he drops the vase,” Hodja responds.
It has become a cliched observation that a news story is “headline-wo
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