Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Heh
I'm sure they tried to find a pro-smoking dude to rebut this. If they needed someone, they could've asked me.
Naphtali Offen: Fans of the Rep must choose between supporting the theater company or disassociating themselves from an industry of death. I would love to see the production, but my associates and I have made the decision to not support a production sponsored by a product that kills its customers.
Blah blah blah, no one's forcing them to kill themselves. Besides, a lot of products "kill" their customers in this definition. Most food companies, equipment manufacturing companies, etc., should be on the receiving end of these folks' anger, too.
DC: "Brundibar" is historically significant because it was performed in concentration camps during the Holocaust as evidence that inmates were well-treated. Has the play's background influenced the protest?
NO: First of all, I am a Jew. For my part, I have avoided raising the issue of the Holocaust because I find that it denigrates the event to use it as a political football. One might say that funding this family opera, as the Rep describes it, with the profits of an ongoing holocaust, five million tobacco deaths annually worldwide, is the real shande. That is Yiddish for shame.
"I'm not going to use it as a political football... but let's just say..." Real smooth.
NO: I try to personalize it. I remind people that the funding comes from the deaths of our loved ones. Most people know at least one person if not many who have suffered from tobacco addiction.
Wouldn't they suffer more if they weren't allowed access to tobacco? Isn't that how addiction works? Oh, well, smoking is a convenient target.
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