dogma protests

depressed@collegemail.com
Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:25:41 +0000

Has anyone on the list seen the new Kevin Smith movie Dogma?
The Catholic League has been protesting a lot, telling people not to see it.
I haven't seen it, but I've read the script on the internet and I think it's 
great, says a lot of things that are true. It's as if catholic people can't 
stand people pointing out the stupid things in the bible. What's your view on 
censorship? I know this has nothing to do with salinger, but hey, you were 
talking about australian movies. And censorship, catcher being banned, 
salinger, err... that's kind of a link. Or maybe not.

Still, I started thinking, if this was a movie about muslims, or allah or 
something, and made a lot of fun of their religion, everyone would probably go 
crazy and say the moviemakers were bigots and racists or something. 
It's the same thing as it's ok to make fun of white people, but if you make fun 
of black or asian people you're a racist. I've seen a lot of black stand-up 
comedians make fun of white people, but never a white one making fun of black 
people. And I'm not at all a racist or a white-supremist, I just started 
thinking about this. Were there any black people in salinger's stories? I don't 
remember. (There, tied it nicely to salinger ;) 

-Grant-


"And then he spun a twisted tale
 about a child who cried his name so many times
 that even when he yelled, no one ever came"
                                  (grant lee
buffalo)

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