So, what exactly is Joel-asshead-Stein's point?
1) That its heart-breaking for him to know that he can't anymore be the petty thug and thief that he once was in his own hometown?
"The Pizza Hut where my busboy friends stole pies for our drunken parties is now an Indian sweets shop with a completely inappropriate roof. The A&P I shoplifted from is now an Indian grocery. The multiplex where we snuck into R-rated movies now shows only Bollywood films and serves samosas. The Italian restaurant that my friends stole cash from as waiters is now Moghul, one of the most famous Indian restaurants in the country. There is an entire generation of white children in Edison who have nowhere to learn crime".
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2) That American schools don't include 'How to be an anti-social element' in their curriculum?
"In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if "dot heads" was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose".
What really bugs me is this - what is a guy like this doing in a magazine like 'Time'? He neither seems intelligent nor original (Compiling all the Googled racial slurs and prejudices against Indians into a few paragraphs does not maketh a column leave alone a humour column.
1 thing is clear - Even Time needs cheap publicity tactics to sustain itself
