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[sophiaserpentia]

Boycott Absolut! Because they dared - ZOMG how *could* they!? - to remind modern Americans that before Texas and California belonged to the US, they were part of Mexico.

By bringing up pesky historical facts they are *interfering* with the now-popular "Mexicans are invaders" meme. Americans might even get the funny feeling that maybe it's the US who is actually the invader. So now what? Now Pat Buchanan and all the other fearmongers will have to say Mexicans invaded the United States by cleverly settling the area beforehand. Johnny-who-can't-read-a-history-book will probably buy that.

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[mlfoley.livejournal.com]

Your link does not seem to go anywhere except back to the page that one is visiting now (i.e. when I viewed this in my friends page, it went to mlfoley.livejournal.com/friends, now it is going to this particular entry's reply function, etc.

Also, those people needed to be invaded. They were brown and non-Christian. How can you possibly defend *that?!*

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Arghity-argh-argh! Fixed.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

The Unapologetic Mexican has a few interesting points about the legality of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and offers a suitable-for-America version of the ad:



EDIT. I FAIL AT HTML TODAY. GUH.

[mlfoley.livejournal.com]

rotfl, brilliant ad.

[demonista.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahaha

[witchchild]

Hey, if Absolut was good enough for my grandfather to get drunk on, it's good enough for me. :)

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Vodka is too hard on me these days. Tsk.

[witchchild]

Oh, that ad is so awesome.

The "Reality-Based" Coalition

[ineffabelle]

What I might boycott them for is pulling the ad because some right wing idiots complained. Somebody has to stand up to these people, sooner or later.

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

If I could drink, I'd be buying Absolut right about now. Absolutely! :-)

[herbgurl82.livejournal.com]

But doesn't ignoring history makes it go away? I might have to have my grandmother pick up a bottle of Absolut from the N.H. liquor store on her way up to visit this weekend.

[seshen.livejournal.com]

Boniface is of Mexican descent, and has this argument all the time. A Mexican co-worker of mine, when presented with the "you should go back to where you came from," said, "my family is in the same spot we've lived for generations. Ya'll moved the border on us!"

[seshen.livejournal.com]

"Mexicans invaded the United States by cleverly settling the area beforehand"

You mean like Satan planted the dinosaur bones to fool people into believing in evolution? ;)

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Yes! And don't forget Satan designed pagan myths before the birth of Jesus to have elements of what was to be the narrative of Christ's life in order to sow doubt in the minds of future Christians! (This argument dates to Justin Martyr in the second century CE, BTW.)

[demonista.livejournal.com]

too bad they've had misogynist ads...that one was effing brilliant. they shouldn't back down on the sentiment, let alone pull the ad.