Thursday, November 14, 2013

flame off


My paper is on the war in Syria, and the only video I could find is a 17-minute video of Syrians fighting throughout the country. The first comment I made was "I am glad the US did not enter this war. There is no win there for us, only casualties." Most of the comments on there were either derogatory towards Americans, or derogatory towards Syrians. I decided to go with this comment to introduce my stand on the topic, and hopefully get some responses. My Next comment was a reply to a person who thinks the United States is backing the terrorists, I said, "you are sadly mistaken if you think the US supports them, the US Citizens did not want to go to war, and you think we support them? Ridiculous. " I decided to start an argument with this guy because he seemed to have a very strong opinion, but had the most ridiculous statements on the war. They were vulgar and I do mot feel comfortable sharing them on the blog. My next comment was another reply, to a man who said "fuck terrorists and fuck Americans." My reply was "What do Americans have to do with this? The one time the US doesn't go the aid and now you say that? Please tell me why." I did this because I thought it would start a good argument on the war. He seemed very aggressive and filled with emotion, and that is the type of person I can easily win an argument against. My fourth comment was quite different than the others, instead of trying to start an argument I agreed with a person. He stated that a video this violent should be flagged as inappropriate, and i replied saying "Agreed, this type of violent stuff should not be posted on a media such as YouTube, where it is very easy for kids to get on." I felt it was a good idea to do this and maybe others would join in and start a heated debate on whether a video like this should be able to be posted on a media like YouTube. My last comment was a general comment, I said "Why is everyone focusing on whether the Syrians are good shooters or not? It does not matter, what is happening there is a tragedy, and people should never have to go through something like that." This statement is a reply to everyone who commented on the fact that the soldiers are not trained well and they look like idiots shooting their guns. It seemed like half the comments were talking about this so i decided this would be a good thing to bring up and hopefully start a strong argument. This was a pretty difficult thing to do especially since YouTube made it so you can only reply to comments that were made within the last week, and my video was already pretty old. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8NM6mdgb4k

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