Yellow Vests Canada Members' Reaction To Ethiopian Airline Tragedy Is As Bad As You Would Think

Sometimes there are no words to describe just how horrible the membership and supporters of the reactionary Yellow Vest movement in Canada truly are.

On Sunday, an Ethiopian Air flight crashed six minutes after taking off killing all 157 on board. Among those killed were 18 Canadians and included the following:

• Calgary accountant, leader in local Kenyan community, among Ethiopian Airlines plane crash victims
• Canadian woman, 24, headed to UN conference among dead in Ethiopian Airlines crash
• Friends mourn Vancouver Island man and others with B.C. ties killed in plane crash
• Six members of Brampton family among the dead in Ethiopian Airlines crash

Individuals from 30 countries died in the tragedy including a number of United Nations staff members and aid workers who were to attend an environmental summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

The reaction of most thinking, feeling, humans would be varied. There would be some "but for the grace of God" reactions. Others might think about loved ones and how they would react if faced with the worst news imaginable. Some might also wonder about the safety of the class of Boeing 737s that were involved in this and another recent crash. But I think that, almost universally, decent people from all sides of the political spectrum would feel deep sympathy for the victims and their families.

This in not the case of the Yellow Vesters who have taken the opportunity to spread conspiracy theories and celebrate the deaths of other human being while hoping for more:

1. Ethiopian flight truthers. And if they aren’t truthers, they’re celebrating the loss of UN employees.

Just like with the Halifax house fire, these horrid people will take any tragedy and make it about them.

THREAD#YellowVestsCanada #cdnpoli #EthiopianAirlinesCrash pic.twitter.com/Ig3uNX6LDv

— Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) March 11, 2019

2. No shame. #YellowVestsCanada #cdnpoli #EthiopianAirlinesCrash pic.twitter.com/XDplznfXzt

— Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) March 11, 2019

3. Do these people have any humanity left? #YellowVestsCanada #cdnpoli #EthiopianAirlinesCrash pic.twitter.com/R0UGGL961W

— Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) March 11, 2019

4. Note one commenter says they hope a plane flies into a UN building.#YellowVestsCanada #cdnpoli #EthiopianAirlinesCrash pic.twitter.com/2Kos6rayjO

— Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) March 11, 2019

I've been involved in some form of anti-racism activism for more than 20 years now and have run the blog for almost 11 and a half years. It really is rare to shock me any longer. Still, the callous and thoughtless hatred of the Yellow Vest Canada reactionaries has me shaking my head.

ARC echoes the sentiments of the good people behind Yellow Vests Canada Exposed:

5. Our sincerest condolences to all affected by the losses. We’ve read the stories of the people on board, and we grieve with you. #EthiopianAirlinesCrash

— Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) March 12, 2019