Lawrence says:Would the Voice have dared to make fun of blacks in the same way that he makes fun of heterosexuals? I bet he wouldn’t have.
There are a few groups that it is still acceptable to make fun of in the US today. The most common example, of course, is working-class white men (AKA rednecks, greasers, white trash, trailer trash). Of course, you’ll find as many decent, friendly, intelligent working-class white men as you’ll find among any other group of people. But it’s OK to make fun of them as a group. Of course, their ancestors were the guys at Guadalcanal and Normandy. Not that that matters or anything.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Lawrence…Read my other responses…
Now then, Does the fact that My Uncle, born in Italy, but brought to america in the 30’s and raised as an American citizen is a decorated HERO who survived WWII, Korea and 'Nam? That he was in battles in Italy where he may well have killed his cousins, Uncles? That my great Grandmother in Italy was killed by American bombs during that war…and that my Grandmother didn’t know her mother was dead until after the War? Or on my mother’s side, that my Uncle died from injuries received at Dunkirk? That all his wife had to remember him by was his name on a monument at Buckingham Palace? That Both of my family’s countries were bombed ~~ The UK by the Axis, Italy by the Allies? Does it matter that my uncle was en route to Japan until the Bomb was dropped?..What about the fact that I was born and raised in the projects (hosing for veterans, they called it) and during the Viet Nam War that I saw US Army Officers arrive time and again to say to a woman in her 20’s or 30’s – with her little children all around, or go to a parents door to say, “The US Army regrets to inform you that…”??? Or that it was only us NOT anyone named Bush, or Kennedy, or Clinton who died in that disguusting War? And can you please explain what this has to do with Lampooning a part of the Hetero Population?
And since YOU brought it up,I’m sure that you are well aware that Gay’s were forced to wear Pink Triangles in Nazi Germany and were exterminated in concentration camps. That that is why the PINK Triangle is the Gay symbol? Or how many Gay men fought in every war, especially WWII? NO, I am sure though you love those sissy boys Ronny “I have an ear-ache” Reagan who dodged WWII, along with John "my knee hurts’Wayne (Or that when shown John Wayne films during the War, the Gay men would yell out, “Hey, Marion! Where’s your skirt?” (Marion, of course being his real name)I am also sure that you are aware that land that AMERICAN citizens of Italian descent owned, was taken by the Government the same as they did to Japanese Americans? While German POW’s in this country were treated like visiting Royalty? (At USO show’s, it was White American Soldiers, German POW’s and BLACK Americans who were segregated in the back of the venue?) That my Grandfather had to escape the Fascists, came here, worked in a coal mine, was ordered to shave his mustache and refer to himself as Frenchie, because Italians were not wanted?
Don’t talk to me about the War, sir. I have a lot of graves to visit that remind me of it every day. How dare you.