"God Bless Sweden!" -- The Producers

According to Fox's Brian Kilmeade, the problem with Americans is that "We keep marrying other species and other ethnics." Other species and other ethnics. The eloquent Kilmeade goes on to compare Americans with your garden-variety Scandinavians (the nerve!): "The Swedes have pure genes because they marry other Swedes because that's the rule. [Except Tiger Woods. They'd do anything for that dude] Finland, Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society." He completes his dissertation with the declaration, "In America, we marry everybody, Italians, Irish."

Damn those filthy Italians and those dirty Irish. Marrying OUR species? What an outrage! I'll never look lustfully at another pizza pie or draught of Guinness again.



You know, Mr. Kilmeade, back in the good old days, there used to be a Solution to problems like these (genius idea, just sloppily executed). You just round up all the people who don't look like us and send them to these "camps." At best, you just remove them from our society so we can have a pure married society in America. At worst... who knows? And really, who cares?




...At least I could take solace that you and I would be on opposite sides of the fence.



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Morning-after note:
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Okay, so probably a little bit of an overreaction. I don't think Kilmeade was intimating some idiot's version of a Final Solution. Just ran a little too far down the rabbit hole.

What really gets me, though, is how people sort of laugh it off when they say such putrid, offensive things, as if to say "Oh, ha ha. How silly of me. You don't take that seriously, do you?"

Maybe not. But we live in a society that once considered slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps, and cross burnings to be socially, morally acceptable institutions. That stuff is much less overt nowadays.

So maybe I am not oppressed or profiled, and I'm no where close to being black. Maybe that allows you to think that such public yearnings for a "pure society" are harmless drivel. Maybe to you, it's just "harmless."

But don't think I'm not paying attention.