Moz on Radio2 -4th October
Radcliffe and Maconie have just had a small discussion about the Simon Armitage interview and said that Morrissey is due to come in for an interview on 04/10/10-which is of course Bona Drag’s UK release date.
(Discussed in the last 10 minutes of the show).
wird sicher von einem fan für die leute ausserhalb Uk „ge-save-t“
reaktionen zum guardian interview
Morrissey: Chinese People Are A ‚Subspecies‘ – The Huffington Post
Morrissey racist? He’s just stirring the storm in his proper English builder’s tea cup – by Neil McCormick, Telegraph.co.uk. Link from Noel Westlake.
When Will People Realise Morrissey is No Racist? – by Barber, The Music Magazine.
Morrissey reignites racism row by calling Chinese a ’subspecies‘ – by Alexandra Topping, The Guardian
Morrissey, this joke isn’t funny anymore – by Tom Clark, The Guardian
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Open Letter to The Guardian
by Adam May,
To the editors and staff of The Guardian,
The alleged poet Simon Armitage wrote:
The tone of voice reminds me of a recent email he posted to a [Morrissey] website-TTY, a tender and poignant citation for a girl who wasn’t much more than a regular face in the crowd at his concerts, but whose devotion and death had clearly touched him. In fact, he talks movingly about all his fans, as if they were blood relatives, or even something more intimate.[…] I can’t understand how a man who apparently shuns emotional involvement and physical proximity of any kind can write with such passion and desire. If it isn’t personal, is he simply making it all up?
ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/03/morrissey-simon-armitage-interview
First of all, the citation was for a woman, not a girl. She was a nurse. She was one the ten people on this planet whom I am most happy to have known. She was much more than a face in the crowd; she was a friend to many of us who span the globe, and frequently amused Morrissey with her cute gifts and witty comments from the front audience row.
She also happened to be Chinese-American.
She, too, abhorred the typical treatment of animals in China. We had discussed these abuses — skinning still-living dogs and cats, amongst a roll call of horrors that animals suffer in modern China — and she believed that these horrors are on par with the human rights abuses that the thuggish Chinese government perpetrates at any given moment. There is no way on Earth that Morrissey considered her to be part of a subspecies, based solely on her birth heritage.
The atrocities exacted upon animals and people in China are subhuman acts. Much like Canada’s annual slaughter (using spiked clubs) of baby seals for the fur industry, China’s tortuous conduct is something that all caring, thoughtful human beings should denounce. When we are apathetic to the suffering of animals, creatures who have no voice, we are behaving in a less-than-human manner. China’s barbaric treatment of animals typifies a culture that does not belong in the modern human species.
Armitage’s dismissive and ignorant commentary towards a moment of true compassion was as offensive to us, the broader family of „fans“, as his obvious manufactured racial controversy. Perhaps, rather than trying to paint a caring and courageous, outspoken man as a racist, The Guardian should have a look at the savagery that is commonplace in „modern“ China. Readers may then conclude whether this behaviour is worthy of the zoological title Homo sapiens.
Regards,
Adam May,
Atlanta, GA
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