5. Stairway to Heaven backmasking.
Everyone's heard this one. The one that if you play part of Stairway to Heaven backwards, (the bustle in the hedgerow part), you'll hear a satanic endorsement. What's even more impressive is that people I know actually believe it. I've listened to it and to my surprise, it sounds like reversing tape. You could make anything out of it. I heard something about mayonnaise on camels. The guy who found it was a priest or something who was purposely looking for satanic things, so of course he heard it. Don't bother with this, its just people looking for an excuse to be whiners.
4. Banning 1984
George Orwell's novel 1984, has been banned from multiple libraries around the country. The parents and politicians who banned it claimed that it glorified rebellion and challenging the system. Books are always banned from libraries, but the stupid thing about banning 1984, is that the book itself is can be used to prove you wrong. It's all about censorship, and the system trying to stop ideas. Idiots.
3. Janet Jackson at the Superbowl
You remember this one right. The night where Ms. Jackson got a bit too nasty. Yeah so Justin Timberlake tore off part of her suit, showing her nipple for like less than a second. Everyone was up on arms about this one, and I think someone said that it showed we were devolving as society. For what, we saw her nipple, I mean, yeah, you can't be naked in public but it lasted less than a second. And second of all, look at the kind of stuff people show on TV. This country allows some violence on TV that that would make most nations shake their heads. Yet we can't get over something like partial nudity. Someone needs to sort out viewing priorities.
2. Transformers 2 Stereotypes
This is a recent one. For the few that missed out, in Transformers 2 had two ridiculously annoying robots named Mud-Flap and Skids. I certainly found them irritating, but a lot of people in the mainstream media said that they were racist. A lot of people said they were stereotypes of black people. First of all, at no point in the movie did it say that they were black or a minority, nor were they voiced by black actors. What made people say they were supposed to be black? They said it was because they had gold teeth, couldn't read, and spoke jive/hip-hop. Wow. So what they were saying was, only black people can have any of those qualities. People of all races can have those qualities, not just black people. By applying traits to a certain people, you are being racist. And they try and act all sensitive.
1. Columbine High-School Shootings
Marilyn Manson is a lot of things. He's creepy, he's an artist, and he's the Alice Cooper of our time. But in 1999, he became the center of attention around something he was barely involved with. Two students open fired in their high school killing several people and wounding others. It was tragic and I found it heard to sleep after hearing about it. But then, in the ultimate slimy move, parents, journalists, and politicians all decide to start blaming Marilyn Manson for their problems. Apparently, the kids who went on the shooting spree were fans of his, and thus, people said it was his fault for being a bad role model. This was nothing but an excuse to persecute people the system had been trying to bring down. Also, the problem is much more the fault of personal problems with the kids, with idiot parents who just want to find scapegoats. Nothing is worse than exploiting tragic events to get your views across. Marilyn Manson was asked what he would have said to the kids who did the crime if he could. He answered "I wouldn't have said anything. I would've listened to them. Because no one did that for them." Hats off to you sir.
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