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Seems to me (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm sure with the interviews lined up for Radio 2 and Absolute Radio he'll be able to set the record straight and flatly denying that he is related to Adolf Hitler despite living in Switzerland and probably having a Swiss bank account.
I'm sure at the time of Mao's cultural revolution if Morrissey was alive he wouldn't be now.
"You can't help but feel that the Chinese... (Score:1, Troll)
Idiots are taking his words out of context. Viva Moz.
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Another fairly even-handed one (Score:1)
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What a stupid thing for him to say... (Score:0, Troll)
i don't usually (Score:1, Troll)
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I do wonder... (Score:0)
http://features.peta.org/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp
Me too (Score:1)
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Now what's he going to say about Lady Gaga's antic (Score:0)
Gaga, 24, who is known for her off-beat fashion style, has posed for the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan wearing a “bikini” made from raw meat.
But the singer’s latest eyebrow-raising “outfit” has reportedly not gone down well with animal rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
President of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, told US newspaper the New York Daily News: "Lady Gaga's job is to do outlandish things, and this certainly qualifies as outlandish because meat is something you want to avoid putting on or in your body.
"No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal.”
She added: "Meat represents bloody violence and suffering, so if that is the look they were going for, they achieved it."
Re:Linder did it first (Score:2, Insightful)
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Cruelty (Score:0)
me play joke
me put cat pee in Morrissey's coke.
Asian Rut (Score:2, Informative)
"...Even when examples as stark as the creation of millions of Untermenschen in China to satisfy our consumer demands are raised, we have a tendency to deflect responsibility from ourselves towards obvious bad guys like politicians and CEOs. At a subconscious level we deny our dependence on unequal and abusive relationships because it challenges our sense of ourselves as ethically consistent beings. In an activist scene that emphasises external problems, privilege, the enemy within, is often neglected. It is less challenging and makes us feel better to be attacking the evil Apple corporation than it does to be unpicking our own attachment to the comfort and convenience we derive from the neoliberal economic system. Morrissey’s sporadic outbursts are easily dismissed as thoughtless bigotry or cynical self-marketing. What is harder to dismiss is the enforced brutal poverty of millions of the world’s population that is justified through the idea that they are some kind of “subspecies”; that they are not worthy of the same rights as people in our Me-First World. It is cowardice and ethical inconsistency to reject the former without rejecting the latter. No matter what privileges we might lose if we were to successfully challenge the dehumanising force of global capital, it is a necessary step in undermining a way of life that makes monsters of us all." - http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/2010/09/diary-of-a-domestic-morrissey/ [ceasefiremagazine.co.uk]
Here's a fairly intelligent reflection from a writer who,..."Living in Asia, I can absolutely attest to everything Morrissey says about the way the Chinese treat animals. At local Chinese markets you see hundreds of animals stuffed into tiny cages, treated in the most horrific ways, skinned alive, limbs amputated while still alive, tapped for liver enzymes (bears) and much much more. The Chinese, like many Asians, do not treat animals like many westerns do or expect the rest of the world to do and, yes, it is inhumane.
However.......saying the Chinese are a 'sub-species' doesn't really help the situation, nor is it true. The Chinese, and many other Asians' way of badly treating animals, is a cultural norm and nothing more. It's how they grew up, it's how they have farmed animals for meat, and it's been this way for centuries.
Animal rights groups are popping up all over Asia, with some Asians (and these include Chinese Asians) desperate to show the rest of their country how animals should be treated. Things are changing but, when you're fighting against centuries of tradition, it takes longer than a few years to change it.
Morrissey, therefore, instead of spouting off with his usual racist-style remarks when he's angry about something would be better served by doing something about the treatment of animals in China. Funding a Chinese animal rights organization, filming PSAs against the unethical treatment of animals, throwing a concert in China and talking about the ethical treatment of animals - all of those things would have much more of a positive outcome, rather than calling the Chinese a 'sub-species'.
Seriously, Morrissey,"Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference:". - http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5771918/is_british_singer_morrissey_racist_pg2.html?cat=9 [associatedcontent.com]
The Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh was interviewed by The Guardian while visiting the UK recently: "...[He] talks about capitalism as a disease that has now spread throughout the world, carried on the winds of globalisation: "We have constructed a system we cannot control. It imposes
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Boycott all "sub-species" that torture animals ! (Score:1)
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Everybody belongs to some racial sub-species! (Score:0)
So technically Mozzer is right the Chinese (as the foremost representatives of this mongoloid branch) ARE a sub-species, as are Blacks (negroids or congoids) and White people (caucasoids) of whom Morrissey is a shining example. Can't see that anything Mozzer said is enough to trigger ANY comment really even amongst the most neurotic "anti-racist"........
Huffy Video etc (Score:1)
Seeing tree, not wood: http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/09/morrissey-describes-chinese-as-a-subspecies/ [newcomm.org]
On balance: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/bands-we-like/three-reasons-to-hate-morrissey-and-four-reasons-we-still-love-him-despite-himself/ [ocweekly.com]
PETA: http://prime.peta.org/2010/09/steps-toward-responsible-stewardship?=cppenews0910 [peta.org]
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You can't help but feel (Score:0)
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Because, of course, skinning a cat alive or cutting off an animal's limb when it is alive and having no aninmal welfare legislation so that these and other such abuses are cultural and endemic - it's all, what? Well worth getting offended on behalf of the Chinese - and it will be the overwhelming majority - who condone such appalling practices?
Yeah - right on brother/sister. Let's get offended by someone saying "You can't help but feel
Not - "I believe that all Chinese people are a subspecies", but, "You can't help but feel". All those idiots calling racist are too thick to spot that Morrissey's remarkes were an instinctive, visceral reaction.
You know that they are human - but you can't help but feel that they are a subspecies.Yes, I can't help but feel. That feeling may be fleeting or short-lived, but it's there, along with disgust and revulsion.
Like the Nazis, the IRA, Islamist suicide bombers, rapists and every meat eater alive - I know, rastionally, that they aren't a subspecies... but you can't help but feel.
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Re:Morrissey is a self-righteous bigot (Score:0)
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Re:Morrissey didn't help a single animal in China (Score:1, Insightful)
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Re:leather runs smooth (Score:0)
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Morrissey helps animals in China by..... (Score:0)
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