[AccessD] OT: Friday humor

Steven:

Nothing legitimizes Weird Al or anyone for incorporating lyrics that promote 
negative racial stereotypes.

>From my perspective, Weird Al is an entertainer and his goal is to entertain 
so I don't think his true intention was to promote negative stereotypes.  
However, if the artist is anonymous, you don't know what his intensions are. 
  So the question is, should DatabaseAdvisors allow FridayHumor emails that 
contain content where racism was the true intent of the original author 
(Weird Al or anonymous)?  Naturally, this leads to the next question: so, 
should we be culturally sensitive or insensitive?

I don't condone what Weird Al has done and sometimes I find it very 
questionable the way he chooses to entertain or the words he chooses to 
include in his songs.  But some people will do anything to entertain.  
Shock-comic Tom Green is another example.  If you know who he is, you may 
find his stunts are disgusting and tasteless but he does it for the shock 
value.  He's performed groteseque stunts like drinking milk straight from a 
cow or played with dead-animal road kills solely to get TV ratings for his 
show or promote his image.

This stuff does not belong anywhere on TV, radio or any media but what can 
you do?  If you are going to make fun of cats, why do you have to include a 
restaurant in it and why does that restaurant have to be Chinese?  Sometimes 
it's difficult to get insensitive about this but you always have to stand up 
for what you believe in.

Hope that clears things up.  Database advisors is a fine database community 
populated with generous people who are understanding, helpful and noble.  
I've been on this list for many years and I have learned a great deal from 
many of you and I hope that this list will contine to be successful and 
thrive.

Kindest regards,
Billy


>From: "Steven W. Erbach" <serbach at new.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving"<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday humor
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:34:13 -0500
>
>Billy,
>
> >> But if that song was done by someone else other than Weird Al, some
>people
>may find that song offensive as it promotes a negative stereotype towards
>Chinese. <<
>
>Why would it make a difference if the song was done by someone other than
>Weird Al? It wasn't, by the way; but what legitimizes Weird Al as opposed 
>to
>somebody with too much time on their hands?
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Erbach
>Scientific Marketing
>Neenah, WI
>
>"I think we should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael
>Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it." - Dennis Miller
>
>
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