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...other faiths in attendance to claim they celebrated Holi in order to re-enact Hindu myths. Even for many Hindus, throwing colors at Holi has little connection to religious figures, and instead represents the coming of spring. We understand that covering religious events is challenging, and we would gladly comment on future captions or articles in order to achieve factual accuracy and broaden understanding of our religion. We appreciate your continuing sensitivity to the concerns of cultural and religious groups. MIHIR GUPTA ’10 March 15, 2007 Cambridge, Mass. The writer is a freshman representative at Dharma, Harvard...
...also live in a culture in which racially and sexually edgy material is often - legitimately - considered brilliant comment, even art. Last year's most critically praised comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, won Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing a Kazakh journalist who calls Alan Keyes a "genuine chocolate face" and asks a gun-shop owner to suggest a good piece for killing a Jew. Quentin Tarantino has made a career borrowing tropes from blaxploitation movies. In the critics-favorite sitcom The Sarah Silverman Program, the star sleeps with...
...That context is not as kind to Imus. He comes out of the shock jock tradition, but all shock jocks are not created equal. If Opie & Anthony or Mancow had made the "nappy-headed" comment, it wouldn't have been a blip because future Presidents do not do cable-news interviews with Opie & Anthony and Mancow...
...Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is probably the best example of this, playing a constant game of "Can you top this?" with herself, as in March, when she told the Conservative Political Action Conference that she would have a comment on Senator John Edwards, "but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot." Coulter is only the most egregious example - from Bill O'Reilly on Fox to Glenn Beck on CNN, offense is the coin of the cable realm...
...shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed to relax about "some idiot comment meant to be amusing." Shockingly, they did not, and by the next day, Imus had tapped an inner wellspring of deepest regret...