Ethiopian Review

These lynch mob members make it impossible for our community to come together, to them, there is no middle ground, you are either with them or against them.

by Teddy Fikre:  Posted:  Thursday, July 29, 2010

If you have been on enough Ethiopian related websites, you will invariably notice one phenomenon.  Irrespective of the article, there will always be one or a few internet thugs, card carrying members of the lynch mob, who are intent on fracturing the community.  These folks carry some of the same traits, they usually use an amorphous name like “One Ethiopia, Konjit, Ethiopian Worrier [sic]” to name but a few . They usually call people idiots while misspelling every other word, and will accuse someone without proof of being a traitor or their favorite ethnic slur in the process.

The lynch mob usually comes out in force when the article is about a person.  If that person does not agree 100% with their stance, that person is automatically branded an enemy.  There is a cottage industry of people who do nothing more than live to “expose” the enemy.  Usually, their aim is based on politics in Ethiopia.  For what it’s worth, I have written ad nauseam about the current regime in Ethiopia and the fact that it is a repressive government.  However, I have chosen to focus equally on things which I stand for as well as making it evident that which I stand against.  However, for the members of the lynch mob, their only aim is to be against anything and everything.

There are actually groups who have a “mission” to expose and destroy the members of political factions in Ethiopia.  One particular video that they posted on youtube goes as far as “exposing” college students based strictly on their ethnicity.  As much as I do not support the current regime, I am equally disgusted by folks whose only aim is to destroy people by spreading innuendos and rumors about people while refusing to stand behind their words.  These lynch mob members make it impossible for our community to come together, to them, there is no middle ground, you are either with them or against them.  In this climate of anger and retribution, there is no middle ground; there is only room for…continued…

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