tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162798.post3118664379252977668..comments2023-05-10T04:16:22.249-04:00Comments on Matthew 2.0: Not easy at allMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382637543517859063noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162798.post-38320165386277994252010-12-02T10:42:00.046-05:002010-12-02T10:42:00.046-05:00Ha ha--just double checked my facts. I had always ...Ha ha--just double checked my facts. I had always considered it a southern state, culturally. And indeed, it is. But it didn't secede (which is why I had lumped it with the North--when we went through KY this past summer, many of the sites we stopped at, esp. Lincoln-related, emphasized the Northern connection). But we also saw what is claimed to be the "old Kentucky home"--and my, Anduril Elessarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474061732139199931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162798.post-15058931089298466822010-12-02T10:35:25.569-05:002010-12-02T10:35:25.569-05:00I remember there was some controversy about a genu...I remember there was some controversy about a genuinely offensive "blackface" schtick that was done recently (i.e. in the past couple of years), in Australia. The people who did it were all doctors and so on--who would have known better here, in North America. What was interesting was that they seemed genuinely surprised, when it went viral, that this was in any way upsetting to watch-Anduril Elessarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474061732139199931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162798.post-14882737886262732332010-12-02T08:50:34.944-05:002010-12-02T08:50:34.944-05:00Take a commercial for KyoChon, a Korean chicken ch...Take a commercial for KyoChon, a Korean chicken chain that suckles from the teat of racism, considering it has close to zero black customers:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5DiZVNlndM&feature=player_embedded<br /> <br />But I think the Australian one is harmless and shows the crowd doing nothing that an Indian or English wouldn't do and, unless KFC's marketers are stupid, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com