Friday, November 05, 2004

"Thou Shalt Not Kill? YOU RACIST!"

You see, this is why I'm glad I don't live in Europe. Political correctness has always annoyed the piss out of me, even back in the 90s, when I was much more of a tree-hugging hippie. But the American version of it is just that; an annoyance. I look up and see a big banner at Wal Mart advertising "The Holiday Season" instead of Christmas, or see how everyone is now (insert group here)-American, instead of just a plain old 'Merican, like it should be, and I get annoyed. But across the pond, where our more nlightened (sarcasm) neighbors live, they take it way too fucking far, and here's an example. A guy in the Netherlands makes a movie about the shitty way women get treated under Islam that pisses off a lot of Muslims. No big deal so far, since it doesn't take much to piss off a lot of Muslims these days, and no one's ever argued that women don't get a raw deal there a lot of the time. But then, one decides, "fuck this guy, I'll kill him," and he does. Now, you've got a big deal. Well, in his own little attempt to make a statement about how we all need to get along and good stuff like that, a guy paints "thou shalt not kill" on a wall nearby. Okay, that's from the Bible, but it's not too bad, since not killing motherfuckers is something we can all agree on, right? BZZZZZZ, wrong. The head of the local mosque declares it, "offensive and racist," so the authorities come and sandblast it off the wall. Offensive? Maybe, in the annoying hippie-assed, "it's from the Bible, and that offends me, blah blah blah, something about Bush" way that we're all used to. But just off that, it's still an "Offensive? Nigga, please." kind of situation. But racist? Calling a set of well-meaning words that mention nothing about any specific subgroup of homo sapiens "racist," is a lot like calling a grilled-cheese sandwich a "weapon of mass destruction." It makes no goddamn sense. Over here, someone would have politely told him his accusations were groundless, in a statement possibly containing the phrase "you dumbass," but over there, they buckled and got rid of it, to please someone who probably just doesn't like the suggestion that we shouldn't murder folks. Well, fuck that guy, and whoever made the decision to get rid of the mural. And just a little bit more, fuck Europe, and over-sensitive people just in general.
America: Fuck, yeah.

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