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June 03, 2005

General grievance

Strong words from an editorial in one of Toronto's alternative weekly magazines deserve wider attention. Eye Magazine comes to the defense of Fashion Cares, an annual AIDS fund-raiser that this year has chosen a Bollywood Cowboy theme much to the consternation of some rent-a-grievance progressives. But then the good folks of the puritan left never did care for camp fun any more than the good folks of the puritan right.

Activists have a hard enough time of it trying to convince the rest of us that the world's going to end if we don't stop buying cars, or that pornography creates rapists, without the sophomoric likes of the people at the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAP) reinforcing the stereotype that activists are hyperbolic knee-jerks who throw around potentially powerful words like "injustice" and "outrage" like verbal confetti.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 3, 2005 08:54 AM

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Let's face facts: there are those who like to enjoy life and have fun, and there are those who prefer to be in a perpetual state of indignation over trifles.

Ok, maybe there's a third type, too. People who would ordinarily be in the former category until the people in the latter category stir up enough sh*t that they have to speak out against them. And then they keep on going. :-)

Posted by: Ben at June 3, 2005 09:28 AM