This Just In: Italians are whiny stereotypes

Today’s Daily News contains a guest op-ed from a local PR consultant who hates The Sopranos. Hates hates hates The Sopranos. Why? Because, of course, it stereotypes Italian-Americans.

First off, wasn’t this old like back at the end of Season 1? I mean, it was three and a half years ago when Sopranos cast members were banned from marching in the Columbus Day Parade. Second off, uhm, dude, I understand and mostly agree with the whole media-perpetuates-stereotypes thing, but, uhm… it’s Italian-Americans. Yes, they’re being kept out of the unions! No Italians need apply!

Anyway, apparently, Italian-Americans are the greatest group ever. He mentions how not all mafia members are Italian. And how “Italian-Americans have constituted little more than 5 percent of the fugitives on the FBI’s most wanted list.” And how an Italian-American discovered the AIDS virus, how two Italian-Americans signed the Declaration of Independence — no, I’m not making any of this up — and how the Jacuzzi was invented by an Italian-American.

Then, he pulls out the ultimate trump card, 9/11:

IN FACT, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, an ex-crime-busting prosecutor named Rudy Giulianni rallied the nation and set an example for all others to follow.

Finally, the word “Mafia” itself is nothing more than an ethnic slur. The term was first popularized in this country in 1891 in New Orleans as part of a violent campaign of hatred directed against Italian immigrants who were wrongly accused in a murder plot.

Oh, just shut up. Go choke on some spaghetti, you greaseball.

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