Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has recently announced that its vacation cruise stops in Haiti will continue, despite the recent massive earthquake. Haiti's Labadee peninsula, a scenic area which has remained unaffected by the recent tragedy, continues to welcome cruising vacationers. Many online bloggers and message board posters have expressed outrage, pointing out the irony of vacationers enjoying themselves while people continue to suffer and die elsewhere in Haiti. As per usual, these bloggers and posters are wrong. I went mining the internet for moronic quotes on this issue; it didn't take very long to find some. It also didn't take very long to discover facts that completely shit on their retarded opinions:
From CNN's 'Connect the World' message board, which may or may not be renamed the 'Connect the C-minus World' message board:
"Having a beach party while people are dead, dying and suffering minutes away hardly makes me want to cruise that particular line..."
First, the port of Labadee is a private resort leased to Royal Caribbean International, approximately a hundred miles away (not minutes, check a map dickhead) from the massive destruction in Port-au-Prince. Second, I doubt you would ever wish to visit anyplace other than overpriced hotels in Paris, where small-minded over-judgmental douches such as yourself can get together in lounges to discuss how much you care for people you know nothing about.
I came across another website, jaunted.com. I found this to be a quite helpful spot, as it looks like idiots with opinions have conveniently begun grouping themselves together. Here's a quote from Cynthia D., who I have no doubt wears some slimy, foul-smelling Birkenstocks and is years overdue for an armpit shave:
"... cruise ships are continuing to stop at their 'private' beaches in Haiti, effectively swatting aside human suffering and the need for the power of the almighty dollar..."
Cynthia neglected to point out that Royal Caribbean employs 300 local Haitians at its Labadee resort and allows another 200 or so local merchants and hair-braiders to sell their wares to tourists. The company also pays Haiti six dollars for each tourist that visits Labadee. Royal Caribbean is now delivering emergency relief supplies and foodstuffs from its visiting cruise ships and has pledged a one million dollar donation to further relief efforts. I guess people like Cynthia believe the 'almighty dollar' is evil though, even if Haitians benefit from it.
From that ridiculous website I found the link to another promising (e.g. even more retarded) site and one with an even dumber name to boot: gothamist.com.
Here's edEx's take on the situation:
"Absolutely disgraceful. How many other Caribbean islands are around that can be used for fun and games? Is it that hard to make a change in course?"
Yes it is that hard; you can't just park a cruise ship anyplace on short notice dumbass, but that's beside the point. Why does it matter if people vacation a hundred miles or a million miles away from where the disaster occurred? Does that affect the amount of dying going on somehow? Do you need to be reminded that Labadee is a privately owned area completely unaffected by the earthquake? Again, do you touchy-feely holier-than-thou types ever consult a map? You're already on the computer; broaden your horizons beyond benandjerrys.com and your own dumb website.
Some people care and then some people actually do something when tragedies such as the one in Haiti strike. Some people post their outrages in order to congratulate themselves on how much they care. Such small minds shit on Royal Caribbean, a company that is single-handedly propping up tourism in Haiti, a place that needs its business more than anyplace else in the Caribbean. Ironically, these pinheaded snobs are precisely the types of people who would text five-dollar donations to Yele Haiti, currently all the rage among young shit-skulls. It appears that nearly 70% of such donations will actually find their way into Wyclef Jean's personal piggy bank, but that's a whole other rant that's already been covered by The Smoking Gun.
