Curious George, I read. Strange, but I guess it could work. An association between a beloved figure of childrens' literature and a person who may likely prove to be a beloved figure in childrens' lives. Adorable!
Imagine my chagrin whn, after reading the text, my eyes drifted to the photo. This adorable toy turned out to be a monkey. Yes, a monkey. Holy. Fucking. Shit. They actually compared Barack to a monkey. Excuse me for a moment while I open up and chug my
Here comes the highbrow, intellectually heavy stuff: Just because all "A"s (monkeys) come from "X" (Africa), and all "B"s (black people) also come from "X", it does not logically follow that all "A"s ARE "B"s. Who would have thought?
SIDENOTE: If you actually needed that explained to you, please remove yourself from my genepool immediately. You can find interesting ways in which you may accomplish this here.
So, given my indisputable mastery of rational thought, it follows that either the manufacturer or the people who designed this and paid the manufacturer to make it are fucking bigots. Barack Obama is a monkey? Sure, I guess, if they are giving Harvard Law degrees to monkeys these days. Although, since Dubya went to both Harvand AND Yale, we know that they admit trogolodytes. Oh well.
Apart from this, I don't really know what else to say. I realize that racism exists and that it is an ugly thing. I'm not trying to trivialize it. I'm trying to trivialize the idiots who come up with shit like this.
Man, I'm so damn angry. I'm so angry I just assaulted my bartender. And I was only on my
Cheers!
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