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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (37618)	7/23/2005 9:30:07 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Americans are a really strange sort. No other culture in history seems as dedicated to its own denigration. It may be a minor thing, but a rerun of "Law and Order: SVU" that we happened to catch part of on a cable channel really exemplifies the extent to which some Americans will go to self-vilification. In the episode's story, two Arab-American women are killed as they are on their way to attend an interfaith meeting for the purpose of promoting harmony between Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The killer, of course, is a blond-haired patriotic-type who is full of hate at anyone who isn't a white American. The caricature of the vengeful American is exaggerated to the point that no one can help but loathe him (and presumably the patriotic principles he is meant to represent). As the producers of the show are well aware, not a single Muslim-American lost their life in this country in revenge for the murder of several thousand innocents on 9/11, which would have been absolutely unheard of in any part of the Muslim world. Rather than celebrate this fact, however, NBC went out of its way to manufacture the ugly American, so full of hate and rage that he would murder the innocent (on their way to build peace and harmony, no doubt). Ironically, the rapper Ice-T appears in the same episode portraying a "good cop." In real life, Ice-T made money from the song "Cop Killer" which actually inspired the murder of at least one innocent police officer, so producers wouldn't have had to look too far for actual examples of violent rage if they had so chosen. What is behind this odd propensity of Americans to disparage their countrymen, even to the point that fictional characters and murders are created when reality doesn't cooperate with the stereotype? How does this make us look overseas, where the echoes of our trivial misdemeanors are often amplified into egregious crimes by government controlled media outlets? If the Islamic Republic of Sudan, which has killed and enslaved millions over the last two decades thinks it should be lecturing the U.S. over Abu Ghraib, then clearly there is an enormous level of insidious distortion that should be taken into account by a television network before arbitrarily manufacturing hateful caricatures that are sure to arouse the scorn of anyone not familiar with the truth of American society. thereligionofpeace.com