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Originally Posted by tuffa
hey i just listened to the show. chemda was wondering why companies would associate themselves with people from jersey shore. well take a look at this.
New marketing trend: "Unbranding" - Boing Boing
"Simon Doonan at New York Observer says that celebrity swag has become anti-swag in the case of some downmarket sub-lebrities. Using Jersey Shore's Snooki as an example, Doonan says that luxury houses are allegedly sending out competitors' products to keep their own brands from being associated with people in the news who don't match their brands' carefully-crafted images. Sounds as if Mary Bale is going to have a new wardrobe next week!"
also, i disagree with keith about the mosque. and i think the argument about people wanting to draw mohammed being hypocritical is wrong. the correct side of both the mosque debate and the depiction of mohammed debate is the side of first amendment freedom of expression. that is an american value we should recognize as such.
am i wrong that keith has a problem with hypersensitivity when it comes to his opinions on that gay dude but doesn't have a problem with hypersensitivity from mosque-protesters? |
Go kick it with Dr. Laura, then.
Freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequences. The debate is not over the legality of drawing Muhammad or building a mosque on private land.
One can recognize that building a mosque near Ground Zero is perfectly legal, and well within one's rights, but that it is also going to offend some of the people directly affected by 9/11.
Now, one is allowed to not care how their construction process hurts the feelings of others, in the same way that one is allowed to not care how their speech or drawings hurt the feelings of others.
That is one's right as an American.
However, it isn't a right that we MUST exercise. We can choose to hold ourselves to higher standards of conscientiousness, regulating our behavior within certain limits so as to enrich the lives of those around us.
And with our rights to free expression we can criticize those who don't.