Video coming - Weg Met Amerika - Raymond van het Groenewoud
A video of Raymond van het Groenewoud's "Weg Met Amerika."
More from Beth and Doug (not the Redskins QB) and Luc Saint Kansas.
Lemme quote from Luc:
"Down with America" is the title of a recent song by the popular Belgian musician Raymond van het Groenewoud. Written in Dutch and published by EMI , "Weg met Amerika" ("Down with America") will be available in record shops as of next week, and was played on Belgian state radio last Thursday and Friday....
Incitement to hatred against people based on (i.a.) nationality is a crime in Belgium. In practice however, this law is only enforced when Arab, muslim or African minorities are criticized. Hate speech against the Americans or the British remains unsanctioned, as was recently shown when the leftist newspaper De Morgen published an article that complained about the British, "with their unique mixture of wantonness and arrogance, their pathetic addiction to drink, their bad taste, and actually just their ugliness and thickheaded presence"....
More and more, it seems that racist or semi-racist expressions are punished when they originate from popular culture or from right-wing politicians and are directed against muslims, Arabs or Africans, but that similar expressions remain unpunished when they come from 'progressive' artists and leftist intellectuals and are directed against the Americans, the British or the Dutch....
Unfortunately, the song isn't catchy enough to get US radio airplay. We gotta get somebody to remix it, then we gotta get Paul Hogan to star in the MTV video. Let's make Al Franken put the song in heavy rotation.
My philosophy is that stupid ideas are best subjected to heavy exposure. (In other words, quote my blog frequently.)
Comments
The article forgot to specifically mention the notoriously horrid-looking teeth of the British. I suppose that falls under 'just their ugliness'.