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Zoeller's remarks not only reflect bad taste and poor judgment, but also illustrate how some people's conception of humor is a flippant reference to a crude stereotype. It is even more discouraging to note that Zoeller does not seem to understand that he did not merely make a bad joke, but that what he said was racist. Zoeller has not demonstrated any true remorse for his statements or even expressed an understanding of why he should not have attempted to make a wisecrack about fried chicken. His "apology" could have easily been prompted by his publicist...
While the suggestions listed above are offered only semi-seriously, there is nothing flippant about the goal of maintaining a vital and relevant civic culture. Civic institutions such as national holidays and national anthems must have meaning in order to bind our country together...
...Holocaust denial and historical "reinterpretation" and "reconstruction," Glazed Pork Loin's flippant attitude cannot be dismissed simply as being in poor taste or excused as "politically incorrect" or "culturally apathetic." He gives us a sobering reminder of the work that awaits all those who would seek to preserve and to (now) re-dignify the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the infamous and inhuman acts of the German people and their cohorts. His is an attack upon the hallowed memories of all Jewish martyrs who are not alive to reply...
Justin Elliot Jones' letter regarding Mel Gibson's speech requires a response that is as "flippant and crass" as Gibson's speech itself: lighten up! Unlike Mr. Jones, I did attend the speech, and I found it amusing and entertaining. Maybe Mr. Jones doesn't realize that those things have some value in themselves...
...talking to several friends, I think I have a pretty good idea of what went on. Gibson had no point to make, no themes to discuss and no message to send to the Harvard youths that could grow up to shape the world. Instead he was flippant and crass. He littered his speech with profanities that I don't need to quote here. Now, I don't mean to sound overly pious, but I believe that usually when a man must stoop to using profanities it is because he does not have the intelligence to express himself in any other...