Round-up

1. I don't know the full background of this story but here "gay pornographic actor and activist" Mike Lucas defends comments that he apparently made about Islam during a talk at Stanford University, after which several leftists unsurprisingly called him a "racist". The piece is strongly worded...but it is also right.

Incidentally, I note that Lucas is the "CEO and founder of Lucas Entertainment, a New York-based gay adult film company." I sincerely hope no one ever gets Lucasfilm mixed up with Lucas Entertainment when renting or buying a DVD, or it's going to be a somewhat...surprising night for them...

2. An award-winning BBC reporter has accused Lenny Henry of insulting her white colleagues by calling for affirmative action employment polices at the corporation. “Lenny Henry calls for a black dg (Director-General). Any black dg?”, Olenka Frenkiel wrote in the BBC magazine. “Regardless of merit, or who they are or what they might have done? What about a Polish dg? Lots of Poles in Britain today. What about a dg with frizzy hair? Or one who’s disabled? Or incredibly small.” Ms Frenkiel concluded: “For goodness sake, campaign for a person to be dg - not for a colour. I am still offended by Greg Dyke’s lamenting of the BBC as ‘hideously white’. Why is it okay to vilify white people for their colour not black ones? It’s insulting.”

Yup.