Lego complains about UN anti-racism poster
Danish toy maker Lego today said it felt wrongly accused of being racist by a UN anti-discrimination poster showing what looked like one of the company’s famous
building blocks.
The poster reads “Racism takes many shapes” and shows the picture of a jigsaw puzzle next to a red brick.
It was launched by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
“We feel that the message of this poster can be interpreted as if we are a racist company,” Lego spokeswoman Charlotte Simonsen said in Copenhagen.
Sandmonkey tells all here and IMHO, despite the best and the brightest, the UN is unapologetically fatally flawed.
And the Dhimmi of the Day award goes to:
Prince Charles
criticizes Danish cartoons
UPDATE: Dhimmi of the day is a TIE between The irrelevant Prince of Londonstan and UN Special Rapporteur
Doudre Diene says " Denmark is a xenophobic country, ruled by racist overlods, read it here The irony here is that Denmark is perhaps the most liberal, open, and least xenophobic country on that continent but why should facts get in the way of UN logic, eh? - Atlas
[Oh and btw, where does the UN get all those bullshit titles? Rapporteur? I mean, really.-They have waaaay too much money to burn, so many idjuts on the payroll, so little airtime -- Atlas]
Dhimmi runner up: I am a Muslim before I am a woman. So is that the M chromosome?
""I'm a Muslim, a woman and also Dutch," she continued. "What upsets people is that I'm a Muslim first."" More here too
UPDATE 3/22/06: It appears likely that Europe will be the next major battleground in the Long War.
The Jihadis, following public humiliation on their own home ground, will need a means of proving that they’re still in the game, and Europe is vulnerable. It abuts directly against ancient Muslim homelands at several points, has a substantial and unintegrated Muslim population, has offered active Jihadis sanctuary within its borders, has pursued reckless immigration and security policies, and has supped with the Devil through its open support of Saddam Hussein (paid for with Iraqi oil funds) and Muslim terror organizations such as Al Fatah and Hamas.
Many observers believe it’s already too late, that Europe is one with Sumeria and Byzantium, that all that remains is the funeral procession. They point to the numbers of native births – below replacement level of 2.1 children per couple in almost every country—compared to those of Muslim immigrants, which are two to three times higher, and echo Bernard Lewis’s now-famous prediction, “Europe will be Muslim by the end of the century.”
Europe in also unfortunate in that its overall government, the European Union, has established itself, in defiance of the experience of the past century, as the kind of managerial superstate proven unfeasible just about everywhere else on earth.
Denmark xenophobic? Still they are first on the "commitment index" for the third year in a row...
Denmark On Commitment Index 3rd Year In a Row
By the way: "Special Rapporteurs, who are unpaid and serve in a personal capacity, receive their mandates from the UN Commission on Human Rights."
Serve in personal capacity and unpaid? That´s why "objectivity" cannot be assured!
What a disaster...
"Freelance Rapporteur Doudou Diène"
Posted by: sugiero | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:39 PM