From: notemmanuel@mail.fr   
      
   The True Melissa  wrote in   
   news:MPG.4397bdd6a76db614989761@news.eternal-september.org:   
      
   > In article <10gki31$1h5to$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > notemmanuel@mail.fr says...   
   >> Putting the tacked on racism angle aside, it's ironic that RTD chose   
   >> to parody and lampoon an entire age demographic as being vapid and   
   >> shallow, especially when the show was supposedly trying to appeal to   
   >> that demographic.   
   >   
   > It's the "you're different" pitch. "*Most* people in your   
   > category are terrible, but you're special." It's amazing   
   > how far you can get by insulting *the other* members of a   
   > group to which the listener/viewer belongs.   
      
   Indeed.  The tacked on racism makes it easy to pretend the story is only   
   about that specific type of tribe/bubble/echo chamber, as opposed to how   
   all groupthink bubbles are problematic.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)