SICKNESS OF OUR SOCIETY ( Anna Nicole and E-bay)

[BayCityProgressive]

they have on CNN right now that everyone is already selling Anna Nicole stuff on E-bay with titles like "Anna is DEAD, buy this keepsake!" She has not even been dead for a day. Please tell me this is not the best social and economic system that humanity has to offer...:-(

[villager]

1. It is not... but....

we won't get to the next 'til this one collapses...

[cynatnite]

2. They do that with every dead celeb...

Blood suckers they are, but it's not unusual.

[DRoseDARs]

3. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO EXPRESS ANY SYMPATHY OVER ANNA!!!

How dare you feel anything but contempt or total indifference for that creature. Celebrities aren't real people, so even the energy to post a thread about her or her death is wasted.

:sarcasm:

It amazes me that any DUers can be that tone deaf.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. it is a disgusting system

that builds people up just to use as punching bags, distractions from real issues, and profit, then drop them like rocks. Then when they are dead or destroyed, someone else moves in to profit again. Sick sick sick.

[BayCityProgressive]

6. not to even mention

the classism involved in calling her trailer trash because of her roots in poverty, the sexism of treating her like a thing to be owned, and then pooh poohing her as immoral for first modeling nude (even though millions enjoy porn) and for drug use, AFTER our media and some sick people stalk these celebrities and ruint heir lives putting them into deep depressions.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. The throwing around of terms like "trailer trash" today on DU has made it a very

dark day for me as far as DU is concerned. I wasn't a fan of Anna Nicole but I don't personally wish her ill just because our society turned her into a celebrity. You're absolutely right. Calling someone trailer trash is dumping on the poor and is truly beneath anyone who calls themselves a liberal or a progressive. It's just fucking ugly.

[BayCityProgressive]

8. agreed

yet Heffner is looked upon as a hero. I hate the sexist double standard. I also find it laughable when people in the middle class call others trailer trash whent he difference int heir incomes is probably about 10k a year. Instead of focusing on name calling of the less fortunate, perhaps we should be focusing on the filthy rich who exploit others.

[Raine]

9. This and any other day when someone

dies and makes the news is a dark day in DU because it brings out the hate and ugliness in some DU posters. :-(

[karlrschneider]

5. Playboy supplement only $1,000.00 (plus $4.10 shipping)

No shit:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Anna-Nicole-Smith-play-boy-supplement-1996_W0QQitemZ330086775179QQihZ014QQcategoryZ86QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[HuffleClaw]

10. yer kidding right?

there were tv ads for memorabilia for that dead race car driver before his body hit room temperature and when john lennon died, record stores collectively RAISED the prices of beatles stuff about five minutes later.

[Karenina]

11. America is a VERY SICK PUPPY.

[BlooInBloo]

12. The true sign of the sickness of our society...

... Is that annanicolesmith HERSELF is not considered a sign of the sickness of our society.

[Obamarama]

13. Please...that is exactly the sort of shit she lived for....idolization.

I'm sorry Anna's train wreck of a life ended up leading to her early demise, but get real. She can marry an 80+ year old billionaire geezer for financial gain, but people can't peddle a few cheap, tawdry Anna tchachkes on the Internet to make a few bucks? Furthermore, the people who are selling this stuff are probably some of this poor woman's biggest fans. What do you expect from people who would idolize such a non-entity?

[BuyingThyme]

14. Some people live to be remembered this way.

Let 'em.