I'd guess the people most likely to be offended by the infamous Michelle Obama/ape montage are people with severe burns to the face, but hey...
It's a pretty rubbish montage anyway. Whoever did this one was much more sophisticated about it:
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Everybody's offended by something
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I don't remember the same MSM fuss over the Bush chimp photoshops...
We emerged from a decade of Bush baby, Bush ape, Bush Hitler and Bush brainless jokes without generating a complaint from a single monkey. The variations were sufficient to fill a journal of equivalent Presidential thickness.
Then just as we thought American politics lacked colour......
apropos of nothing, googling "Obama breaks promise" - in quotes - returns 651,000 hits
There is a section for it. Here in R/S they take everything personally like we are slamming them...I have a friend that does that to and she gets very offended over even things that have nothing to do with her lifestyle. The best thing to do is pray for them.
Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 had a take on this today. Discussing whether or not Google had a responsibility to 'suppress' such images with various prelates and lefty journos ( they agreed almost unanimously " yes ").
They then went on to discuss whether other subjects should be similarly censored, such as...
Kiddie porn
Racist piss-takes
Beheadings of British people
Violent strangulation porn
Religious hate cartoons
Climate skeptics
Uho, excuse me Jeremy, is that really the sort of company we keep ?
That is TOTALLY offensive! It is racist due to the systematic dehumanization and exploitation of Africans worldwide. Hence, to equate a person of African descent with a monkey is historically an aggressive actof dehumanizing and demoralizing that person; due to the historic meaning associated with the imagery. It is abusive and irresponsible characterization of a first lady. To be ignorant of the meaning behind this offense is tragic.
Stacie,
You must be ultra offended by these..
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=bush chimp cartoon
No Stacie, it is just an offensive cartoon and we were not born into a world that guarantees a right not to be offended.
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