Tuesday, July 12, 2005

the british know 'racism' when they see it.

from the bbc:



Denmark jails 'racist' pizza man

Aage Bjerre acted in protest against the French and German governments' opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.

He will now serve an eight-day sentence at a minimum security prison, the Associated Press reports.

"I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States," he said. He refused to pay a 5,000-kroner (£461;$800) fine.


there is scant a literati who hasn't griped about the pervasive missaplication of quotes, that's for sure. but when a british journalist puts racism in quotes to describe anti-german and -french sentiment, be sure that they are used quite intentionally.

2 comments:

jhaddock said...

That's impressive that you can actually be briefly jailed for 'racism' in Denmark. I guess too many US social interactions would end in arrests if that were true here...

jhaddock said...

You ever notice that in the days we only have one posting, it usually garners a ton of comments, yet in the days with multiple front-page posts, we get almost no comments? What does that say about things?