Are you American? Smoke a Cuban cigar abroad, and you can win the exciting opportunity to spend 10 years in a federal prison.
Eh? No wonder we think they’re mental. And no, I’m not proud of the nastyness some Americans say they’ve experienced in the UK recently. Although none of the Americans I’ve met in the last few years, of any ethnic or religious persuasion, have any similar stories: once they mention the fact that they didn’t vote for chimp-boy, all is forgiven [*].
Even if the stories are true (the one from Frontpagemag is unlikely to be, given that Frontpagemag is actually listed in the dictionary under ‘crazy mad right-wing made-up shit’), people need to develop a sense of perspective: being an American over here is not like being a Jew in Nazi Germany, and claiming it is is rather offensive to all concerned. And poking fun at the heartland’s sartorial inelegance does not count as disgraceful racist behaviour.
(Cigar lunacy via Ben Hammersley…)
[*] If they *did* vote for chimp-boy, then they deserve slating, just as one would slate a UKIP voter. This isn’t racism; a British Bush-supporter would rightly be treated in the same way.
The frontpagemag article is rather amusing. Author’s idea of heaven is wearing a flagpin? That just says it all.
And it’s true; slating Bush-supporters (whatever nationality) isn’t racism by any stretch of the imagination (and anyway, it’s lots of fun). I think most Bushites believe it’s just European envy anyway, so better to leave them to their self-delusions.