JOAN OF IRK

Virginia_1776 rode up the stony hill, banner crackling in the wind, lance dropped and centered on her foe. She rode for honor. She rode to defend saltspring from a charge of being a bigot. Her steed stumbled as her lance splintered against the brick of the windmill, followed shortly by her face. Unfortunately for our heroine, there was no Sancho Panza around to clean her up and hold her as she limped off the field of battle.

Virg got all hot and bothered when I told her flat out that saltspring is a bigot against muslims and arabs. He constantly denigrates them collectively as an inferior culture. His ideas and policy proposals clearly reflect that, despite his oft-professed love for oppressed arabs, he regards their lives as virtually meaningless. No policy saltspring proposes can be trusted, because inherent in each is the ghoulish notion that arab/muslim life is expendable. If you confront salty with this, all he will do is insist that arabs have done worse to each other. Of course. Now I see the problem. You're a bigot.

Virg was valiantly throwing up defense after defense of salty as he tried to explain himself on mic. Suddenly, salt let fly with the epithet, "muzzie." Talk about stopping a conversation dead in it's tracks. On my end, I twitched, my eyes wide, and then began to laugh. Soon, the whole room was bantering about it. Oh my, salty, dreadful faux pas, old chap. Better luck next time, Virg.

Just a little advice. If you're going to stake your credibility on defending a bigot, you might want to make sure he isn't actually a bigot first, ya know?

JC