Offending the politically correct
The president of the University of Pennsylvania is catching flack for posing for a Halloween photo with a student dressed as a suicide bomber. In addition to the ruckus in The Daily Pennsylvanian (Penn's student paper), this has evidently made news elsewhere (including Israel).
Here's her apology.
OK fine, it's bad taste to wear a suicide bomber costume. Also, it's politically foolish for Gutmann to pose for a photo with one. Finally, I know people have high expectations that Ivy League Presidents be politically correct. But seriously people...last time I checked, Osama Bin Laden masks were a huge Halloween sale. So what makes it ok to be a guy responsible for thousands of deaths, but not a garden variety suicide bomber?
Here's another tip. The reason terrorism works is because we get our panties in a bunch over it (ie we get terrified). Are we really so afraid that a college student's costume stirs up this much trouble? Or is it just cultural sensitivity? Yes, I realize terrorists are a serious business, but if we had the stones to laugh at them we would steal half their thunder.
(I feel like I'm not getting something here. I must be a bad person or something.)
posted by Lanky_Bastard @ 2:15 AM
2 Comments:
kind of related (or maybe not related but funny-ironic-and too pc for words...)
there's an article in this month's _vanity fair_ written by someone who tried to auction a portrait of stalin at christie's. they wouldn't take it, siting that they don't to stalin or hitler. at all. so the guy calls back and tells that this his pal damien hirst just painted stalin's nose red and signed the portrait. outcome: christie's accepts it, jacks up the price, and calls it "a damien hirst".
in a world of ever-fluctuating morals, it's fun read about people who know how to teak the system....
That is funny! Guess we like our demons properly demonized. I imagine the original artist is rolling in his grave somewhere.
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