I'm surprised the fake liberal news hasn't interviewed her/ asked her about her forthcoming book yet.
Pulitzer board will be getting horny, Hollywood is salivating, and dem politics beckons. Maybe Shillary, the Pant-Suit Butcher of Benghazi, will meet her.
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She lived in Phnom Penh with a Mexican witch. They were always sweeping their rooms with their brooms. They were Spic and Span.
Forbes on the witch absurdity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erinhale/20 ... f4a731513f
But it was a "joke"...
But it was a "joke"...
The absurdity of the article has already prompted 386 reactions (emojis) on Facebook and 160 shares. Cambodian officials and Prime Minister Hun Sen are known for their oddball comments, but this might take the cake as the strangest in print. Major General Heisela later backpedalled on the quotes claiming they were a “joke,” according to AFP’s Jerome Taylor, but considering the internet never forgets, it seems clear the damage has been done.
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Never struck me as anything other than a joke, or actually less a joke than, as Felg put it, "taking the piss." It's obviously absurd, (it would raise eyebrows even by deep country, totally uneducated, black magic, 'don't know where Europe is' standards,) and the Daily quoting it as if it were serious seemed a bit like making the mistake of citing an Onion article as if it were real. If a westerner had said it, I wonder if anybody would have taken it as anything but a joke. Back in the day the Daily not only cited these sorts of 'crazy quotes' but they used to translate them into bad English, complete with missing articles and prepositions and wrong tense, presumably to highlight the 'uneducated Khmerness' of it. I think they eventually realized that sounded kind of racist, and became more generous in their translations. To what degree does it require a racist (or at least orientalism) mindset to believe that this quote was serious, or for "internet to become baffled" by it, or to claim that the major general is now "backpedaling" by pointing out the obvious, i.e. that it was a joke? Though it looks like I am in a minority, it seems to me that it is the Daily and the believers who were caught out here, not the major general.Joon wrote:Forbes on the witch absurdity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erinhale/20 ... f4a731513f
But it was a "joke"...
The absurdity of the article has already prompted 386 reactions (emojis) on Facebook and 160 shares. Cambodian officials and Prime Minister HE are known for their oddball comments, but this might take the cake as the strangest in print. Major General Heisela later backpedalled on the quotes claiming they were a “joke,” according to AFP’s Jerome Taylor, but considering the internet never forgets, it seems clear the damage has been done.
I agree, but should the chief of investigations at the general department of immigration not be taken to task for taking the piss in the face of allegations against himself and his department, for fear of sounding racist/paternalistic/colonial?LTO wrote:Never struck me as anything other than a joke, or actually less a joke than, as Felg put it, "taking the piss." It's obviously absurd, (it would raise eyebrows even by deep country, totally uneducated, black magic, 'don't know where Europe is' standards,) and the Daily quoting it as if it were serious seemed a bit like making the mistake of citing an Onion article as if it were real. If a westerner had said it, I wonder if anybody would have taken it as anything but a joke. Back in the day the Daily not only cited these sorts of 'crazy quotes' but they used to translate them into bad English, complete with missing articles and prepositions and wrong tense, presumably to highlight the 'uneducated Khmerness' of it. I think they eventually realized that sounded kind of racist, and became more generous in their translations. To what degree does it require a racist (or at least orientalism) mindset to believe that this quote was serious, or for "internet to become baffled" by it, or to claim that the major general is now "backpedaling" by pointing out the obvious, i.e. that it was a joke? Though it looks like I am in a minority, it seems to me that it is the Daily and the believers who were caught out here, not the major general.Joon wrote:Forbes on the witch absurdity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erinhale/20 ... f4a731513f
But it was a "joke"...
The absurdity of the article has already prompted 386 reactions (emojis) on Facebook and 160 shares. Cambodian officials and Prime Minister HE are known for their oddball comments, but this might take the cake as the strangest in print. Major General Heisela later backpedalled on the quotes claiming they were a “joke,” according to AFP’s Jerome Taylor, but considering the internet never forgets, it seems clear the damage has been done.
The twitter glee on show is over the top, but if the press don't publish, where does that leave things?
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Yes, sure, he certainly left himself open to criticism for not taking the situation seriously enough. But that doesn't seem to be what "baffled internet," or what the media took him to task for. If they had taken him to task for not taking things seriously, it wouldn't have been racist. He's not "backpedaling."epidemiks wrote:I agree, but should the chief of investigations at the general department of immigration not be taken to task for taking the piss in the face of allegations against himself and his department, for fear of sounding racist/paternalistic/colonial?
The twitter glee on show is over the top, but if the press don't publish, where does that leave things?
Yep, it was much more 'silly man from silly country with silly government says silly thing'LTO wrote:If they had taken him to task for not taking things seriously, it wouldn't have been racist. He's not "backpedaling."
They believe in witches that fly in Africa, paint protection symbols on trees in India why not here?LTO wrote:Never struck me as anything other than a joke, or actually less a joke than, as Felg put it, "taking the piss." It's obviously absurd, (it would raise eyebrows even by deep country, totally uneducated, black magic, 'don't know where Europe is' standards,) and the Daily quoting it as if it were serious seemed a bit like making the mistake of citing an Onion article as if it were real. If a westerner had said it, I wonder if anybody would have taken it as anything but a joke. Back in the day the Daily not only cited these sorts of 'crazy quotes' but they used to translate them into bad English, complete with missing articles and prepositions and wrong tense, presumably to highlight the 'uneducated Khmerness' of it. I think they eventually realized that sounded kind of racist, and became more generous in their translations. To what degree does it require a racist (or at least orientalism) mindset to believe that this quote was serious, or for "internet to become baffled" by it, or to claim that the major general is now "backpedaling" by pointing out the obvious, i.e. that it was a joke? Though it looks like I am in a minority, it seems to me that it is the Daily and the believers who were caught out here, not the major general.Joon wrote:Forbes on the witch absurdity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erinhale/20 ... f4a731513f
But it was a "joke"...
The absurdity of the article has already prompted 386 reactions (emojis) on Facebook and 160 shares. Cambodian officials and Prime Minister HE are known for their oddball comments, but this might take the cake as the strangest in print. Major General Heisela later backpedalled on the quotes claiming they were a “joke,” according to AFP’s Jerome Taylor, but considering the internet never forgets, it seems clear the damage has been done.
I'm surprised you think the people in the countryside, or even some in the town don't believe in witches.
Most Cambodians seem to be only too happy to go along with what they are told when it concerns barang.
As the head of immigration and speaking on its behalf, do you really think he should be joking in an official statement especially when his department have been accused of videoed assault on a woman. That's what people should rightly be laughing hard at him for. He has brought ridicule to himself. his government and his country. He doesn't give a f though I'm sure. What person involved in the CPP (or others) ever does?
That's why his and others ridiculous statments on serious subjects will continue as usual.
They are a laughing stock because they make themselves one. It's about time they caught on. But despots really don't care what people think of them obviously. They use fear and coercion to rule not democratic debate. Unless you consider breaking every law and blaming others for breaking laws democratic.
I don't know if you've read some of the African politicians articles (all lies of course, but extrememy erudite ones). They make the CPP's statements look like malicious children have written them.
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The fact that reasonable people could even debate about whether a guy in his position was joking or not pretty much says it all doesn't it, regardless of whether he was joking or not.Abou-Gor wrote:They are a laughing stock because they make themselves one.
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Now come on LTO , this still IS a place where sorcerers are beaten to death on at least an annual basis and belief in them is not uncommon. I'm with Shitegeist here.LTO wrote:Contrary to the joke, this is not Africa.
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Do people still believe in magic here? Yes. Do government officials believe that women in Spain fly around on brooms? No. And if you managed to find some ignorant villager that did believe that women flew around on brooms, he'd never have heard of Spain. It was obviously a piss rake.jm wrote:Now come on LTO , this still IS a place where sorcerers are beaten to death on at least an annual basis and belief in them is not uncommon. I'm with Shitegeist here.LTO wrote:Contrary to the joke, this is not Africa.
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