below is an email I just wrote to the editor of the online edition of mother jones magazine (MOJO), regarding the opening header of today's "MOJO Headlines" email I received. in the header, MOJO compared finding fault in palin, as, well... read the opening line:
"Easy as shooting pit bulls in a barrel"? Really, MOJO? The pun is there, but the visual - to this owner of a silly and loving pit bull - is just disgusting and wrong.
I dislike Palin's stances on issues and her use of colloquialisms as much as the next liberal. Basic political policies and speech-reading aside, I will forever detest the fact that she used a stigma that pit bull owners across America have been trying to overcome for years to make herself look better. To me, it served an underlying purpose of flippantly waving "well-known" stereotypes in our faces, akin to making racist remarks about Obama's character per "well-known" stereotypes of African-Americans. Good dogs are good dogs, good people are good people - no matter what their breed, color, or relations - and I think you're doing your mission of "seek[ing] to inform and inspire a more just and democratic world" a major disservice by keeping any kind of stereotype alive.
Please find another way to poke fun at her blunders and sound bites - or, in my mind, this magazine's attempt to inspire informed voting and open discussion of social justice issues is becoming as closed-minded as its opposing media and campaigns.
I mean, really - isn't my bubba cute?
so, I won't stand for it. even if I weren't already voting for obama for every other reason on the planet, this one's a definite deal-breaker.
conservatives: keep your laws off my body, your words off my rights, and your prejudices off my dog.
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