The Perils of the Internt

This post at HuffPo has gone viral. In short, the poster, Katie Vyktoriah, let her son wear a pink headband to Walmart. There, the child was slapped by a guy in camo who called him a fag and took the headband and was generally reprehensible. There are almost 11,500 comments at HuffPo alone, all (at least all that I read) very sympathetic and most outraged. I have to admit, I bought it at first. (It's the meds. It has to be the meds.) Then I ran across a comment at The New Civil Rights Movement that brought up Katie Vyktoriah's past history. And thinking back, there are lots of holes in her story -- she didn't call for help, didn't report it to the checkout, didn't ask for a manager, didn't even yell back at the guy, nothing. (I mean, if some big burly stranger walked up and attack your two-year-old, would you just stand there?) She went home and wrote a blog post about it the next day. I did some checking and ran across this story from a local paper. And then found this post.

Word is also out that HuffPo moderators are dumping any comments that question the veracity of the story. I left one to the effect a while ago, which seems to have been disappeared.

But then, it's HuffPo. (I consider HuffPo a mediocre site for news, and even less interesting for commentary -- sort of a middle-of-the-road Fox News at this point. One more reason I should have known better than to take that story at face value. And now they seem to have adopted the right-wing policy of deleting any unfavorable comments. Choice.)