farmerman wrote:sorta not hypocrisy though. Here we have primarily the Boston Archdiocese getting all torqued up over the ad. They of whom, the body of a little boy is but a plaything for a small percentage of priests and bishops.
I think they oughta just shut up and play bingo. Im not all full of charity to the various Archdiocese' latent sanctimony.
No issue with that. However it doesn't alter my point. The ad exploited nuns and the diocese reaction was understandable. I don't pretent that the matter is particularly important though - and I doubt that they think so either.
farmerman wrote:Besides george, your statement about "protected minorities" is,(IMHO) probably a Limbaughian scrambling for some high ground. I think if you look at comedy, youd find the groups youve identified have all been suitably stereotyped in humorous fashion with no big deals made ("JEWS IN SPACE"> BLAZING SADDLES_"THE BIRDCAGE"--"QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY") etc etc.
. I strongly disagree. There are two standards for what is acceptable for insider self parody and exploittion or mockery by outsiders in our PC world. The examples you cite are all by insiders. OK for a hip hop 'artist' to utter the (gasp) "N" word, but let someone else use it.... !!!! The same double standard exists for all "protected" groups. However no such protection exists in this case --- and that is hypocritical.
