Cameron Diaz has touched off a minor international incident - by sporting the wrong accessory.
While visiting Peru this week, Diaz was seen carrying a trendy bag emblazoned with Maoist symbols, and the slogan "Serve the People" - one of murdering fiend Mao Zedong's favorite sayings. Ms. Diaz may have only thought she was being hip - but the people of Peru, who suffered for years during a Maoist guerrilla insurgency, did not think her accessory was very cool. Said a Peruvian human rights activist:
[The slogan] alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims. ... I don't think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology did so much damage.
This story reveals, strikingly, the perils of mingling fashion and politics. One person's trendy look is another's heartbreaking reminder of death and mayhem - which is the main reason these asshole fashion designers should stop putting things like Maoist sayings, and pictures of people like Mao on their clothing, accessories etc., (never mind the crass-minded lameness of reducing a major historical figure to a logo and selling it to retarded fashionistas).
I ask you, fashion-people - where is your vaunted sensitivity? Or are we only supposed to feel "sensitive" toward people/ideas that have been officially sanctioned by magazine editors and other so-called "taste-makers." Should we reserve none of our thoughtfulness for people who may have had their lives destroyed by cruel dictators and/or their worldwide devotees? Why not just cover t-shirts with pictures of Hitler or Idi Amin? What a bunch of vile hypocrites these people are, with their endless preaching about "caring" for things. Apparently, caring does not matter when someone has a "cool" idea for a line of bags for rich people. Sensitivity goes out the window when the bottom-line is at stake.
None of this excuses Ms. Diaz, who is a featherhead, but nonetheless responsible for the bag she totes. Grow up Cameron, and learn something about the world instead of just treating it like your personal playground. Those people who delight you with their "nativeness" are human beings too, with feelings. Going to their country is not like going to SeaWorld - you're not gaping and giggling at a bunch of trained animals. They live there. Bad things have happened to their people in the past. Crack a book, you silly, zit-faced whore.
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