More on The Pussification of America
Posted By matt on January 7, 2006
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Basically, go to buy a DVD. It says “buy similar products”. So, you go to purchase “Planet of the Apes” and get “African American” Titles, such as:
“Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/Assassination of MLK” and “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.”
Now, for starters, I'd call those “history oriented” titles, just like Gettysburg and JFK. Make a movie about a white historical figure and it's history (albeit often politically motivated, especially if you're Oliver Stone). But, make a movie about a black historical figure, and somehow it's no longer history, but rather a “black title”. Come on people, we're all Americans here, let's stop with this while “embrace diversity by pointing out how we're different and thus accentuating the us vs. them mentality”. We're all Americans; you just happen to wear a different skin than I do.
For second; why is this a big deal? Yes, their system gives piss poor recommendations. That's it. Stop reading in to it. Stop getting offended over random chance + a hell of a lot of meaning that isn't there. If you want to go get offended about something, go get offended about how many of us are going to get raped by the Alternative Minimum Tax and the government isn't doing a damned thing about it (simple solution – kill it. It was a stupid idea and a waste of taxpayer money anyway. Hell, I'd love to see the ROI calculations on that mess). Or how about how we can't safely visit our nation's capitol, because even Marion Barry got robbed at gunpoint. (The real gems here are not that he got robbed at gunpoint in a gun-free town, but rather that he wants to increase penalties for posession of illegal guns in DC, but DOESN'T want to press charges against the people who robbed him. Riiiight – make something more illegal, but don't enforce what is the real crime (robbery) and already VERY illegal. The second gem is a statement that he made about how this isn't supposed to happen to him because the word in the street is to leave him alone because he's a good guy. What, now he's shocked because there's no honor amongst theives?)
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