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I ran across this video on The Onion in my archive. It’s a spot-on depiction of the shallowness of clueless media/entertainment types, here about the efforts on behalf of Darfur. Does anyone remember Darfur, or has Hollywood become “Darfur-weary” after many years of genocide? The “recommendations” in the video for raising public awareness in Darfur about the efforts by Americans to remember the genocide are intended to be satirical, but they so well expose the thinness of the intellectual and moral veneer that covers the preening and posturing by the majority of celebutards that the line between parody and reality becomes faint, indeed.
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