WIN!
So much win!
Season 1, Episode 5: “A Shirt Story”
I know, this is not a sweater, but it is the most important piece of clothing ever worn on the Cosby Show… Denise Huxtable’s version of a Gordon Gartrell!
Oh wow! I have complete and total memory of this shirt.
Miley Cyrus posts link to “we are all starstuff….forget Jesus, the stars died for you,” video (you know the one). Crybaby shitstorm ensues.
Aww, well poor Miley Cyrus. Somehow she missed the fact that posting something blatantly offensive, religiously intolerant, and completely unrelated to the physics of dying stars might be a stupid move for a celebrity. I might have sympathy for her getting death threats or being told to go to Hell, but not for the level of social ignorance that led to the reaction in the first place.
1) In what way is it offensive or intolerant? Is saying “forget Jesus, the stars died so we can live” any more offensive than a Muslim saying “praise Allah?” The level of Christian propaganda you seem to suggest must be enforced rivals that of Parent’s Television Council wackadoos. Did you see the Lion King? They started the movie off with a religious-type ceremony, BUT IT WASN’T CHRISTIAN!!!! Isn’t that just as offensive?
2) OK, you’re going to challenge the scientific accuracy of the claim that we’re all made of starstuff, but not the nonsensical claim that a magical ghost from another dimension impregnated a human woman through magic, not sex and the baby that was born was really him who grew up and was murdered, but it was all part of his original plan because he needed to sacrifice himself to himself in order to forgive us for some shit that he originally fucked up on in a story about a magical fruit?
3) Your comment about “social ignorance” is a irrelevant. The horror here is not that some people got offended by something that she didn’t even fucking say, she just linked to (for fuck’s sake). The horror is that she’s being threatened for expressing an idea. That’s something that Christianity’s been doing for 2,000 years.
1. Yes… yes it is more offensive to say ‘forget Jesus’ than to say ‘Praise Allah.’ One is the endorsement of one’s own religion, the other is the denigration of someone else’s. To the next sentences, you’re insane. I would happily(and have) watch other religious ceremonies or participate in them when invited. What I wouldn’t do is make insulting comments about them with no fear of reprisal. Those are two different concepts… how is it you don’t get that?
Except that saying something is wrong is not the same as insulting it. Had she said “Jesus was a dick”, then yes, that would have been insulting. Even then, though, free speech .
Of course, God could just have not made you sick in the first place…
Day still pretty, though.
SAD.
