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To: Gay State Conservative
I have no problem with an African (which this guy is) thinking Aborigines are ugly.I have no problem with Aborigines thinking that white people (Caucasians) are ugly.

There is a scene from the 1980 South African movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where Xi, the !Xhosa leader, sees Kate, the first time in his life he has seen a tall, buxom blonde woman. The narrator describes the experience:

"That morning, Xi saw the ugliest person he'd ever come across. She was as pale as something that had crawled out of a rotting log. Her hair was quite gruesome; long and stringy and white, as if she was very old. She was very big - you'd have to dig the whole day to find enough food to feed her."

38 years ago, that made an audience laugh, and then think about how beauty is, not in the eye of the beholder, but in the eye of the culture of the beholder. That is what good comedy does. Today, there is no longer good comedy, because the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution, and any comedy that impedes the revolution must be silenced.

21 posted on 07/23/2018 7:45:53 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Good point - beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder


46 posted on 07/23/2018 11:39:37 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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