Wed Sep 1, 2021 – 2:36 pm EDT ANALYSIS
TORONTO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – On August 26, the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, filled its front page with vitriolic and mocking comments collected from social media toward people who have not taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine.
“If an unvaccinated person catches it [COVID] from someone who is vaccinated, boohoo, too bad,” the front page of the Toronto Star read, in extremely large text.
“I have no empathy left for the wilfully unvaccinated. Let them die,” the second statement blared, this time bolded.
These inflammatory comments were accompanied by an article written about the purported growing disdain for the unvaccinated.
After receiving immense backlash, the Star changed the incendiary front-page and issued a statement addressing the retraction.
Article accompanying controversial front-page arguably bolstered the incendiary statements
The article accompanying the dehumanizing statements was not an exposé on such opinions, but instead appeared to affirm the comments.
The article referenced survey results and quoted from “professionals” indicating a widespread hostility towards the “unvaccinated” throughout Canadian society.
“According to a recent Angus Reid poll most vaccinated Canadians are indifferent to the unvaccinated getting sick with the virus,
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