Bigots R Us!

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Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

I read about this on the BBC website --

The 20 “castaways” in the 13th season of CBS' Survivor will be divided according to their ethnicity. The contestants will be segregated into four “tribes” of blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos when the hit CBS programme returns on 14 September…

-- and people thought I've been out of my mind keeping this (and the previous) blog, that racism, racial strife, and ethnoxenophobia is still in FULL effect in Amerikkka.

CBS is completely reckless and socially irresponsible to sanction this kind of competition, because it's going to certainly justify certain racial/ethnic stereotypes about cunning, shrewdness, physical attributes and "get-along-ability." The contestants were smart, they'd work the white people off the Island first (I wonder what happens to the ratings when that happens... like the CBS/Survivor brass would allow that), then have the various ethnic groups go at it.