So a marketing consultant who works for Mayor Bloomberg just resigned after getting into hot water over some stale jokes she made about Mexico at the Huffington Post.
Now, to be clear: the jokes that Betsy Perry made in the post were about Mexico. Not Mexicans.
There is a difference, people.
The jokes included a bit about “drinking the water,” a line about as old as Montezuma, and his revenge. She also brought up the drug gang problems, as well as the kidnappings and, of course, the swine flu. Now, the stuff she said about all this was neither particularly insightful or funny – but the last time I checked, that is not a cause for losing your job. If that were the case, Janeane Garafalo would be living under a bridge.
And that’s what bugs me: the lady resigned because the things she said hurt people’s feelings – not because the things she said were racist, or even totally incorrect. I’ve said this before: Mexicans are the hardest working, most decent people I’ve met in my life – but Mexico is not my ideal destination when I get a week off. Usually, I head to Thailand – where they’ve named a chair after me.
The point is – we live in a culture crumbling under the brutal weight of political correctness, in which a joke about the runs means you think Mexicans are bad people.
It actually makes me sick to my stomach.
But that could be the burrito.
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