Is it too much to ask that a moratorium be called on invoking Michael Vick EVERY FUCKING TIME a celebrity who is NOT Michael Vick get's into legal trouble?
You hear this shit all the time now: "If you {{insert felony recently committed by famous person}} you get a slap on the wrist... BUT IF YOU KILL A DOG!!!..." the implication, of course, being that what Vick did was so unimportant as to make his 18 month punishment an instant laugh line. There's also a sick undercurrent of cultural pandering frequently involved, as though dog-murder is one of those things "you wouldn't understand."
Chris Rock - who's usually above crap like this - was the most recent offender in this regard, with the comparison in question being (who else?) Roman Polanski. Now, granted, he's probably mostly joking, but still. Honestly, are there NO better martyrs to "unfair" incarceration than this guy?
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