Here we go again: Now it's a McGill University student who has forever enshrined his personal jackassedness via new media.
We're sure it won't get much coverage, because the student in question is neither a blonde female nor flashing cleavage on YouTube. But it's probably more serious than that stupid girl's anti-Asian rant at UCLA, because it involves threats.
The student, a lamebrain named Haaris Khan, tweeted angrily about fellow students who were watching a political documentary he disagreed with. "I want to shoot everyone in this room," he said. "I should have brought an M16. The jihad starts today."
It's not as if the atmosphere wasn't already kind of charged: Khan posted his tweets during McGill's annual Israeli Apartheid Week, in which students organize events in support of the Palestinians. As you'd expect in such a potentially incendiary situation, the university and Montreal police are investigating. And Khan now is groveling and penitent.
We cats say to the officials of McGill: Toss this jerk. In the wake of horrific shootings like Dawson College in 2006 and the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989, idiots like Khan — and all the morons who have shot their mouths off on Twitter and YouTube — should learn a lesson.
Free speech is not just a precious right. It's a tremendous responsibility. Grow up.
(IMAGE: The 14 women who lost their lives to a woman-hating gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique.)
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