Imagine.
You have a best friend. He's an arsehole to most people and most people hate him, but you know that he's actually a good kid at heart. You know a side to him that nobody else does. He gets hit by a car and is hospitalised. The people who hate him feel happy because then he can no longer be an arsehole to them. You, however, are devastated because he's your best friend.
For you, Jade Goody is just some face on a tv screen or on the internet or in a magazine. You've never met her, never spoken to her. So for you, she's just another "annoying" celebrity face. And you could say that actually for you she isnt really real. She could be make-believe for all you know because you've never encountered her IRL. That's why maybe you dont feel anything about the fact that she's been diagnosed with cancer. It's not going to affect you and your life, and you know she's just so annoying you can go and laugh and celebrate the fact that she has cancer.
It's like when people see the poverty in Africa, or the fighting in Iraq. It's in a far away distant land that we will never encounter so we cant relate to it and cant feel as much emotion as if we were actually placed in the situation.
She appeared on an Indian Big Brother show, which means travelling all the way to India, despite knowing that something was wrong with her.
And she has two sons. Their mother has cancer. Think about them.
She apparently lost consciousness and lost quite a bit of blood not long before the scheduled trip. I find this to be more than enough reason to not go, and I'm sure the people she intended to work with over in India would have understood. She's not trying to "patch up" anything, she's trying to fixed her damaged image, ergo she's still a racist.
Also, I fail to see why her kids take precedence over the millions of other kids who lost their non-racist, non-idiot mothers by even worse means (murder, for instance). Just because she's famous doesn't mean I intend to give a !@#$% about her kids who are most likely as dumb as she is and will probably be a lot better off than some of the more innocent kids in the world.
All I'm saying is; one should not celebrate another's misfortunes.
No matter how annoying she is.
No wonder this world is such a !@#$%-hole, the people in it are so !@#$% cold.