Being a place with a very
high concentration of tourists,
Wicked Campers cleverly make sure they have shedloads of campers going
around, and they're cheap enough for lots of young tourists to use them.
Vilified to the extent that even Wikipedia refers to their slogans as
"disgustingly sexist or racist", the company just ignores the complaints and
revels in the publicity.
On a very rare occasion of being stuck in traffic a couple of days ago, I heard
my wife suddenly crack up laughing, then point to the Wicked Camper that made
her laugh. It was one of those slogans referred to as disgusting sexist.
I laughed as well.
Now, the heavy brigade has been called in the form of rampantly elephantine
Assistant Minister of Tourism and 2IC of the government's all-girl hatchet
squad, and
she is pissed off.
At the same time, we have the enormous tub of lard - and absurdly self-named -
Cat Pause,
berating New Zealand for not treating people who can't even treat themselves
with respect, with respect. (If you want a really good laugh and don't find
fatist comments disgusting, there's some funny stuff in the comments - and note
the ratings!)
To me, this is exactly the kind of bunkum driving the rise of Donald Trump.
It's like Newtonian physics is at play in the populace - the harder the
hand-wringing, hemp clothed, sandal-wearing PC brigade push, even reasonable
people begin to want to push back, and when the pendulum reaches a certain
point, they do.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it at all. The way to stop sexism/racism/fatism/ageism/shortism
isn't forcing people to stop laughing..
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