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August 25, 2002
McCommies need to get lives
McDonald's has put out a limited time promotional sandwich in Norway called the McAfrika, some kind of pita concoction supposedly based on an African recipe.
Naturally, decent people are OUTRAGED. There are people starving in Africa. This is so insensitive. "It's inappropriate and distasteful to launch a hamburger called McAfrika when large portions of southern Africa are on the verge of starvation," Linn Aas-Hansen of Norwegian Church Aid told the newspaper Aftenposten.
Protesters from Norwegian Church Aid have been handing out "catastrophe crackers" - aid-package subsistence biscuits, to customers coming into McDonald's restaraunts in Oslo.
Yet if you looked up some of these self-appointed Norweigan guardians of "sensitivity" and slapped the taste out of their mouths, YOU would be the bad guy. Apparently it is now somehow off limits to eat any form of African cuisine, because... well, because they say so. What logic is there to this other than that McDonald's customers should feel guilty because they aren't starving too?
What good does this do for starving Africans? McDonald's naturally offered some hush/protection/donation money, but they were having none of it. A few bucks might actually feed some starving people. But no, these Norwegian commies would rather have an issue to embarass McDonalds.
It appears that simply spiting rich folks and parading your supposed moral superiority is more important than anything to do with actually ameliorating the suffering of Africans. To whatever extent that the "Norwegian Church Aid" organization represents Christianity, this only re-inforces Nietzche's theory that resentment is the core value of Christianity. In fairness, though, you really can't hold this particular foolishness against, say, Pat Robertson.
posted by Al at 8/25/2002 01:00:00 AM
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