In my opinion, these manufactured Political Correctness controversies pop up again and again for two reasons: for the financial gain of the journalists who catch some "celebrity racist", and to make the rest of us think such opinions deserve punishment. It has the opposite effect on me, perhaps because I have opinions similar to Morrissey's on immigration and other issues.
Here's an interesting quote from the video interview I posted above:
Quote:
Interviewer:
Who are your heroes?
Morrissey:
Living, nobody; dead, thousands. Sir John Betjeman I think he would be my personal vote, maybe George Best; there's so many people. But living ... I think we live in not terribly sophisticated times and so at the moment for me there's nobody that I would be insane about really.
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