Friday, March 17, 2006

Metaphor-challenged Dunleavy speaks

If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?
New York St. Patrick's Day Chairman John Dunleavy

It doesn't take much to deconstruct this quotation. Neo-Nazis hate Jews and wish them harm. The Klan hates African Americans and wishes them harm. According to Dunleavy's logic, gay Irish citizens hate the Irish and wish them harm.

And I thought they just wanted to march in the parade because they were Irish.

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