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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:05 am
to Islam and then suing
The parents of a nine-year old French boy called Islam are to sue a television company for discrimination after it allegedly refused to let him participate in a game show unless he changed his name.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... lam116.xml
Oddly, if this is right I would agree with the parents, but Bridget Bardot should have the right to be a cranky old lady.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
