Rachel Marsden, former SFU student, blazed into the fuzzy mascot debate with a decidedly untactful and provocative whine about poor white people being disrespected. John Semley provides a nice riposte to Marsden
Over the past week or so, frothing conservative columnist Rachel Marsden has been carving out an editorial niche for herself criticizing (and criticizing, and criticizing) the 2010 Vancouver Olympics logo and mascots. Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Canada’s ex-pat answer to Ann Coulter described the logo as “some sort of native Indian stone carving resembling a bloke with massive oedema of the legs” and the Games’ cartoon mascots as “various hybrids of legendary native indian [sic.] animals that could only ever exist only after a good toke-up of Canadian weed.” Continue reading here: Maisonneuve | Too Many Crazy Pills