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Thread #98381 Message #1947288
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
24-Jan-07 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS - Reeducation Camps
Subject: BS - Re-education Camps
I think I am beginning to see an unseemly trend in this country, and it has nothing to do with conservatives. A star of Grey's Anatomy (a show I never watch) outs a fellow cast member as being gay, and even uses a no-no word to describe him. A star of Seinfeld (a show I seldom watched) goes off on a couple of black hecklers and shouts a no-no word multiple times. An actor/producer of films in archaic languages (movies I've not seen) is stopped for a possible DUI, and goes on an anti-semitic rant. Each of these people are called out for their action and express contrition for their bad behavior. This is not accepted, so they make pilgrimage to 'offended groups' and apologize some more, but it is still not good enough. Each has 'entered' into some sort of rehab to show he is truly contrite, where he will be analyzed and forced to renounce his deep (or perhaps temporary) alienation from from the way good people think. I don't know how this strikes you, but it sure smacks of the re-education camps of the lamented Soviet Union or Pol Pot's Cambodia to me. George Orwell warned us about things like this; McCarthy must be laughing at his detractors who now act much as he did.