Bowling for Columbine - again.

[billydkid]

I only caught a little bit of it on HBO and I have a question - what was that bit about "Africanized" bees. I'm sorry, but was Michael Moore seriously using people's fears about africanized bees as an illustration of American racism? I am not clear on this - is that the point he was trying to make? Are Americans racist because they use the term "africanized" and because they are scared of the bees? God, I hope not. Even Michael Moore can not be that much of a jackass.

 

[geni]

I think it was just another media drive scare in his list I don't think there was anything more.

 

[rockoon]

Yes he can.

 

[Skeptic]

1). Yes, he CAN be that much of a jackass;

2). Shows you how much what he says can be trusted.

 

[LucyR]

I only caught a little bit of it on HBO and I have a question - what was that bit about "Africanized" bees. I'm sorry, but was Michael Moore seriously using people's fears about africanized bees as an illustration of American racism? I am not clear on this - is that the point he was trying to make? Are Americans racist because they use the term "africanized" and because they are scared of the bees? God, I hope not. Even Michael Moore can not be that much of a jackass.

Hmm...I haven't seen the film, but from what you say it does sound a bit odd. "Africanized" is, I think, a logical description.

 

[UserGoogol]

He was being cute. He was making multiple points. One is that the media stokes up people's fears to get ratings, another is that one of these fears is the fear of black people.

The first point was obviously true, the whole "killer bees" thing was definitally the media scaring people over something that ended up being not all that important. The second one was just sort of "alluded" to, that this shows that the media, at least in the vaguest sense possible, portrays things as Africa as "dangerous."

Partially, it was just a pun, and it wasn't really meant to be taken too seriously, and the stories of black people killing people were his real evidence.