Down With. . . Whatever This Represents!!

Just when you thought that only informed people took up their signs and girded their loins, to show genuine concern for something, stupidity strikes again, to remind you that most protest in ignorance. Hooray for protest in ignorance! Last week, Cuban exiles protested in Miami, apparently outraged at the historical drama "Che," about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. Benicio Del Toro, who plays Guevara, even had something to say about it, "... a lot of the people protesting the movie hadn't seen it." Are they afraid that Marxism will be shown in a positive light? Or that what Guevara and his peeps did was cool? Somehow I doubt it.
Does any of this sound familiar? There was a large outcry against "Brokeback Mountain," due to it's wrangling with homosexuality. Here in Utah, there was at least one major theater that refused to show it, only drawing more attention to it. Mormon-Heaven forbid you show a gay love story, although they had no problem showing the horrific and violent "Saw II".
And how many of those Bible-shaking homophobes who thought Brokeback was complete moral degradation and an utter travesty for portraying homosexuality as anything other than a horrible social problem actually went and saw it? Few, I'm certain. It's much easier to complain about something you know nothing about than to take the time to find out what the truth is.
Hooray for protest in ignorance!