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4.16.04
Promotional Correctness
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That's Annoye
Picture a high school television drama featuring a wheelchair-bound shop teacher, multiple gay students, a redwood-hugging sea turtle saver, a cancer-addled media studies teacher and a Bollywood-themed semi-formal dance. It's Degrassi, the newest installment of the sappy Canadian series that began in the '80s as Degrassi Junior High. Not only is it one of my favorite guilty pleasures, it just might be the most P.C. vice I'll ever have.

So, I had to chuckle when the writers managed to employ a ridiculous Italian immigrant stereotype in an attempt to expose the evils of stereotyping queers.

At The Lowbrow Lowdown, we know better than those beer-swillin' Canucks not to use ethnic or cultural stereotypes, ay:

  • Extra Self-absorbency
  • Separation of Merch and State