Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Miley Cyrus Being Sued.

This has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/luxe-life/2009/2/13/miley-cyrus-sued-for-4-billion-over-slanted-eye-photo.html

Apparently a Ms
Lucie J. Kim is so offended a by a Picture of Miley and her friends making faces where they pulled their eyes slanted that she is suing for 4 Billion Dollars, or 4,000 per potential claimant.

Kim claims that Miley Cyrus "should have known that her image would be
publicly disseminated via the media, which Cyrus knew focused on her
private life."

I'm sorry, don't we have a whole industry of people who make fun of minority's for a living? They're called comedians. No one's suing them.

The ability to laugh at each other and laugh at ourselves is a cornerstone of a peaceful society. If you can't listen to a comedian and laugh when he makes fun of you, there is something wrong, cause you know you were laughing when he was making fun of other people.

There are lines that shouldn't be crossed, words that shouldn't be said, that are too.. emotionally loaded still, but I hardly think slanting one's eyes is anywhere near that line, especially since there is an Asian in the same photo widening his eyes to look round.

But hey, I'm not Asian, If I'm wrong, and this is like having a shoe thrown at you, someone enlighten me.

But even if it is the worst thing ever done, why should anyone be held responsible for the actions of Tabloids? Your First Amendment right to be a idiot shouldn't be suspended because you happen to be being stalked by reporters wherever you go.

Really we should be doing something about the stalking of underage performers by tabloids and the like. The rate at which child performers reach 18 with a semblance or normality is scarily low. Frankly putting your child on TV nowadays borders on Child Abuse.

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