I'm sure there a myriad of things at work here but let's first consider YouTube comments. Go on YouTube, find just about video that has more than 10 or so comme

I'm sure there a myriad of things at work here but let's first consider YouTube comments. Go on YouTube, find just about video that has more than 10 or so comments. It will inevitably devolve into some hate filled tirade, usually racist or sexist in nature. I think basically what it boils down to is that there are a lot of really ignorant (any political site, especially right wing), and angry, hateful people out there that want to burn someone for anything. Now couple the fact that there are so many deranged people and then give them a place to blabber away, the Internet, and you have a recipe for constant demagoguery and witch-burning. It's kind of like "letters to the editor." It's mostly the idiots that are whipped up in enough frenzy to even care to write these kinds of letters; Facebook pages and Twitter campaigns are just another form of this phenomenon.