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• Sunday, December 10, 2006 07:25 AM

  Bad Assumptions is an excellent title!

  Because you made several.

  A) Being unflattering to a black person is racist?

  **Yes, it can be, especially in a comparative light. "Unflattering" is the word you chose. Yet a sentence later...

  The article made it clear that she thinks Baldwin and Fey are funny, and Banks evil.

  **"Evil." Hmm. So you see "evil' and 'unflattering' as synonyms? Syllogism #2: Thanks for making my point. She does quite clearly think the two white people are funny and the black person isn't. It's easy to say that without literally demonizing the black woman, isn't it? It's not enough to say she doesn't like Tyra Banks, she has to cast her as literally one with Satan. A bit overkill, if you ask me. Finally, if she makes it clear in the article, that proves the point I raised, moron.

  Horns aren't so inappropriate.

  **No, they're entirely appropriate if in the article you have to make anything you dislike evil and then you wish to further drive home the point with the photoshop equivalent of graffiti. You're not getting this, are you white boy?

  B) I'd be surprised if the writers were responsible for the artwork.

  **Ta-da! And we end up with a 'pass-the-blame' after thrice defending the author's choice. Yeah, I'm sure Salon's layout artist 'just happened' to have a montage as posted lying around and 'what a coincidence' someone happened to write an article favoring the two white performers and demonizing the black one. I'll bet you believe in astrology, too.

  Thank you, theross, for proving you don't have to be a homophobic redneck to be a racist.

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