Item A: Italian politician, Signor Berlusconi, apparently is in trouble for describing our new president as "handsome and tanned." Actually, he looks a little pale to me. And I have never thought he was handsome. He's no Michael Vick.
Americans of African descent do in fact respond to the sun just as all humans do. Amazing! My ex, a black man of rather dark complexion, certainly looks darker after a day out in the sun. And blacks can get sunburned, too. It's human skin, not teflon. Are we not human, do we not tan?
(HT once again to Bobaccio.)
Berlusconi is apparently famous for "controversial" statements, such as, get this, remarking in the wake of 9/11 that Western civilization was superior to Islam.* Can you believe it? And right after 9/11....how insensitive is that?! The nerve.
Item B: Jerry Lewis (who knew he was still alive?) has apparently also been a bad boy. He recently described cricket as "a fag's game". Outraged outrageees demanded that he apologize "to gays, to cricketeers and to comedians". I suggest he be sent to the same re-education facility that Isaiah Washington went to, somewhere in Ecotopia.
Where will it end?
Item 3: *While we're at it, if you can't call one culture better than another...how can we have all the critical moral autopsies of how evil things were in the past? Does cultural politeness only apply to currently existing cultures? I mean, if all cultures are good, then they must have always been good, or at least equal. Or did all cultures just become equal only recently?
Or is the whole idea total bullshit?
I report, you decide. I'm off to spelunk for a few days.
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