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Once upon a time, I would have been thrilled that my show was the first TV show ever to get invited to the UN. In retrospect, considering how faily I tought the finale was particularly on issues such as race, gender, religion, colonialism, etc., it wasn't quite as awesome for me as I wanted it to be (read: faintly embarassing) but I know that's both my opinion and hey, the UN couldn't have known that at the time?
So then EJO says things like, "There's only one race! The human race!" and some UN person - I apologise I can't remember the exact words, basically says something diplomatic along the lines of, "Yes, and that's a lovely thought but it's not useful to dismiss people's very real experiences of racism," to which EJO replied, profoundly, "When a bug doesn't like you, that's racism." TO THE UN, PEOPLE. TO THE UNITED. NATIONS.
Which was - UNTIL TODAY - my all-time all-encompassing symbol for everything I found off-putting about the guy's public persona.
YOU GUYS. EJO IS CLAIMING HE - OR RATHER HIS APPEARANCE AT THE BSG UN PANEL - IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGING THE UN CHARTER.
This would not be so bad, if there were any evidence at all that it had been changed.
I do not even know what to do with this information, y'all. I just cannot process it.
I found this link through fandom grapevine; I believe it originated with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greycoupon? I got it from asta77 in any event:
http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/6569
There's the link, though since it's written by Michael Hinman and I don't really want to increase his hits, the article is reproduced for posterity below.
( WARNING: May cause severe reactions. )
So there you have it folks. Palestinians and Jews just haven't watched enough Battlestar Galactica.
I just. Text is inadequate to conveying the level of WTFery this engenders in me. There are no words, people. No. Words.
So then EJO says things like, "There's only one race! The human race!" and some UN person - I apologise I can't remember the exact words, basically says something diplomatic along the lines of, "Yes, and that's a lovely thought but it's not useful to dismiss people's very real experiences of racism," to which EJO replied, profoundly, "When a bug doesn't like you, that's racism." TO THE UN, PEOPLE. TO THE UNITED. NATIONS.
Which was - UNTIL TODAY - my all-time all-encompassing symbol for everything I found off-putting about the guy's public persona.
YOU GUYS. EJO IS CLAIMING HE - OR RATHER HIS APPEARANCE AT THE BSG UN PANEL - IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGING THE UN CHARTER.
This would not be so bad, if there were any evidence at all that it had been changed.
I do not even know what to do with this information, y'all. I just cannot process it.
I found this link through fandom grapevine; I believe it originated with
greycoupon? I got it from asta77 in any event: http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/6569
There's the link, though since it's written by Michael Hinman and I don't really want to increase his hits, the article is reproduced for posterity below.
( WARNING: May cause severe reactions. )
So there you have it folks. Palestinians and Jews just haven't watched enough Battlestar Galactica.
I just. Text is inadequate to conveying the level of WTFery this engenders in me. There are no words, people. No. Words.
