The Star Wars Kid Is Back

An anonymous reader writes "It was eight years ago that Ghyslain Raza slashed his way into our hearts with his Star Wars Kid video. Sadly, Raza suffered from severe bullying and abuse for his video and eventually ended up in a psychiatric ward for children. However, his video was seen 1 billion times and multiple thousands of geeks came immediately to his defense. While those must have been the worst years of his life, things are now looking up."

Didn't he get an iPod?

[wandazulu]

As I recall, there was a group of people who contributed to buying him an iPod as a way of trying to show that not everyone who saw the video was laughing at him. Any idea whether he got it? TFA doesn't mention it.

Re:Hmm...

[zwei2stein]

Of course, he is lawyer now.

Ain't this fate of most bullied nerds? They get attractive ... jobs later. (And opportunity for "lolno, not dating you" to what where popular girls at school)

Re:Those who can DO

[Shakrai]

Yep, they're all evil until YOU need one to help you navigate the law, or until the EFF uses them to fight for your rights.

Speaking as someone who got charged with a crime he didn't commit, my lawyer saved my ass.

There's also NewYorkCountryLawyer to consider. Not all lawyers are evil ambulance chasers you know.....

Re:Wow, how sad is it that

[Lumpy]

It's because they are submitted on time, but the editors are so fricking lazy that things will sit waiting for submission for a week at a time.

Honestly, it's not that hard to dig through the submissions, I have looked at the firehose and they are not getting 80 submissions a second.

Re:Those who can DO

[Jeremi]

So why do we keep electing these bozos?

Douglas Adams explains it [williams.edu] much better than I ever could.

Re:Wow, how sad is it that

[Forge]

Slasdot's Admins and Editors don't read Slashdot anymore. If they did, they would have noticed the criticism years ago and mended their ways.

Re:Glad things turned out well

[theshowmecanuck]

What is sad is that he has joined an organization to maintain 'cultural heritage' in Quebec. In Quebec people who like to maintain cultural heritage like to implement things like Quebec's language law. A law already rebuked by the UN human rights courts that force parents to send their kids to all french schools, force store owners to put only french signs on their store fronts (or be fined into bankruptcy), and yield any of your own cultural heritage to the fancophone Quebec majority. Think 'A French Version of Right Wing Texas North.' Except as extreme left wing... bringing it closer to the same ideological enforcement as other historical societies. There are even cases where french cultural extremists have firebombed or tried to firebomb businesses that tried to defy the language laws and put English (and other language) signs on the front of their buildings. In Quebec, cultural heritage takes on a darker meaning. I'm not saying he is this camp, but be wary when you hear 'cultural heritage' in reference to Quebec. It is possible it refers to their ubiquitous mind police.

Re:Wow, how sad is it that

[Wyatt Earp]

/. has never been a news breaker, except for things like CmdrTaco's proposal, Segan's meltdown over bombing Iraq and CmdrTaco's forced WoW name change.

I've been here since it was Chips and Dips