Posted on 09/15/2013 6:38:43 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Paula Deen, move over. Next to esteemed Italian winemaker Fulvio Bressan, you’re a small fry when it comes to dishing racist slurs.
In a shocking Facebook tirade that prompted a storm of online protest, Bressan called Italy’s first black government minister, Cecile Kyenge, a “dirty black monkey” and referred to illegal immigrants as her “gorilla friends.” Not that it matters, but the vintner was responding to Kyenge’s suggestion that taxpayers’ dollars be used to house undocumented aliens in hotels.
Although the remarks have since been pulled, Jelena Bressan, his wife and business partner, confirmed the substance of the posting to me in an e-mail, saying Bressan was not available for comment. She also drew my attention to an “apology” posted a week later in which Bressan declares he is not a racist and that he intended the remarks to be directed “exclusively at [Kyenge] and not at all people of colour.”
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I don’t drink wine, Just do not have a taste for it. However if I were a wine drinker I would not boycott it for that.
The man has a right to his own opinion even if it is racist.
I still watch movies with Morgan Freeman in them and he is racist.
Another hidden secret: Europeans, Asians and South Americans are MUCH more racist, on average, than North Americans. Always have been, probably always will be.
Rassiss wine made out of rassiss grapes? Should be interesting! Gotta try it.
Should we boycott actors and musicians who make flagrantly racist statements?
Sounds like sour grapes.
Sounds like wine whine!
Obviously his wine is not selling and he had to get some advertisement, good or bad. He went for the bad and his sales will probably increase.
Of course if the wine is bad, no difference, but if good his sales will go through the roof. Just another way to get noticed.
I saw things in the French Army that were shocking and even done in front of a black officer by the Regimental commander, the French are very racist.
Thanks. I’ll have some cheese with the whine.
Everyone’s bigoted to an extent, based on judgments, past experiences and common sense. If people avoided buying stuff based not on the worth of the product but on the opinions of its maker(s), they’d soon starve to death, naked.
It’s practically impossible to buy anything made by a large corporation (or a small one benefitting from products made by large corporations) today where your payment won’t be used to fund abortion, stem cell research or homosexuality. For you to be able to avoid this, you’d need to have total control over the path your money takes as it changes hands, which is impossible.
When the left boycotts al sharpton, Jesse jagoff and the black congressional cuscus I’ll worry about racism, but not today.
Should we watch Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Angelica Huston, ad nauseum, movies?
What about the inverse? Should we patronize a business simply because like a political ideology?
Should I turn away customers because of their ideology or life style?
Bastiat said that where goods and services cross the border (free trade) armies do not. Will people be more accomodating if we simply see the green of their dollar rather than their ideology, orientation, race?
What might happen if Blacks, instead of boycotting, became his best customers? What if his livelihood depended on those he denigrates?
I understand wanting to boycott, in fact I do so in some instances, but I also understand the horror of trying to pass a political litmus test with my customers everyday at work. Not a pleasant existence.
I am pretty sure I would not buy this wine as a gift for any of my Black friends or acquaintances.
The idea that taxpayers should foot the bill to put up foreign invaders in posh hotels probably merits some foul language, which I don’t use though.
If a child molester becomes a movie star, I will boycott.
Please get over it! We got over the hula hoop craze, the Twist and the Mashed Potatoe, let’s get over this 20th century invention of (some say) Leon Trotsky, that’s got everyone Left and Right running scared, apologizing, confessing, bowing down. Here’s Dee Dee Sharp singing “Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes””.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0ZWo2BTZI
Which one were you referring to? Not arguing, I feel the same, but Polanski has not been convicted ((no real excuse) mom was also an idiot for leaving the child with him and should have been charged with endangerment), Jack and Angelica were at the party (do they bear responsibility? I thnk so.). Woody was never married to Mia and is not the adoptive parent of the child in question.
I do not boycott racists whether of African, Asian or European heritage. I do not care so much for their views, but you can not boycott everyone.
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