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It's a moronic article, full of politically correctness SHIT.
The father of italian poetry in the Renaissance Age was Dante Alighieri, I don't know the equivalent for USA (maybe for importance Walt Whitmann?) but for Europe is one of the greatest poets of all ages. He wrote, among others, the mystic poem [i]The Divine Comedy[/i] where he painted the world after the death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
In the Hell he put, among the false prophets, Muhammad, the father of Islam.
Should this considered "racist" and forbidden?
Should the beauty of this poem be ignored for this?
Should we Italians renounce to our cultural heritage because of this?
I say THE HELL NO!
I am a strongly opponent of antisemitism, but I cannot renounce to appreciate the beauty of the Wagner music: If I did this I'll be only a political correct ASSHOLE OBSCURANTIST. I've ENOUGH brain to be open and fair to other people ANYWAY.
But maybe this journalist has not enough culture (and nothing better to do...) to distinguish an give a REAL SUPPORT to tolerance.
This man forgot that to indicate what is "correct" to read and what is "not" is only the first step toward dictatorship...
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HEY PAOLO! I think what you're missing is this attitude in the US to hate yourself for what happened hundreds of years ago, by a world that thought it was ok to enslave others. Just look at the Africans, they were enslaving eachother WAY before we (the British) got there.
The recent trend in America is to wipe out all traces of past indiscretions, so we aren't reminded of them. Such is the case as the recent support down south for renaming a school, which bears the name of one of our ex presidents, who happened to be a slave owner. It makes no fucking sense, but they do it anyway, just to be "politically correct."
Personally, I think the author is the real racist. How many people here watched LOTR's III and saw blacks, arabs and indians? Well, i guess you can say I saw them as being Arabs, but that's besides the point! I could not imagine seeing the faces and thinking, "well, that one looks black" or "that one looks indian." It takes a WARPED mind to really look for that, then to ACTUALLY SEE IT! Trust me when I say, this author is the actual racist and he is trying to cope with it by denouncing his own racism. This really is more of the "hate whitey" crap, lets just hope he hates himself enough to do something about it.