Boat people proportionality in comment field – Aftenposten

Up to 900 refugees are feared dead after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean sun. Only 28 of those who were on board survived.

The case – and the situation of the many refugees who choose to cross the Mediterranean – has received wide international attention, but not everyone has sympathy with the refugees.

2 TV reports that they have deleted a number of racist statements on the matter from his Facebook page. VG has removed clergy posts from their comment fields.

One of the newspaper’s readers writes that Europe will drown in refugees unless refugee flows hit stopped, while TV 2 has rendered a post from a reader who describes refugees African fortune hunters .

– There is a huge gap between those who believe that these refugees

should drown, and those who believe that Norway should help in the rescue. There is a very polarized debate with a big hole in the middle, says responsible for user involvement and social media in VG, Oyvind Solstad, told the newspaper.

Published: 20.apr. 2015 10:42 p.m.