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?
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.
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.
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
It is horrible what they did to Paula Dean and we and my inlaws have refused to watch the Food Network since they dropped her. Completely unfair. So maybe we are okay with boycotts.
On the other hand, this guy is an idiot and might be a true racist if he actually said this. He should explain himself.
Might this unenlightened one ask the outraged how many cases of fine Italian wine are purchased by American low information Blacks?
we can call people savages, or beasts, or animals, or even scum, or filth...
but we can’t call them gorillas?
They call us crackas, honkies, white-ass whatevers, white boy, caspers, white bread, whitey, and everyone in the media and police can’t seem to somehow come to grips with these things being expressions of racist statements...