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Racism ? What's up with that ? First Mel Gibson. Then Survivor [see Additional References below]. Now "Kramer."

It seems to me that the "Us against Them"  moments are spreading. Seinfeld was "a show about nothing.” It seems like the bull market's laid back attitude is fading.
--John

A button on the site, labeled “see other prejudiced celebs,” takes viewers to a rogues gallery of racist offences from a list of celebs that  that includes Gibson, Paris Hilton, Omar Shariff, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen owns the No. 1 movie, Borat. As his alter ego, Borat, Cohen fears Jews, women and homosexuals and agrees with Mel Gibson: “Jews started all wars. We also have proof that they were responsible for killing off all the dinosaurs. And Hurricane Katrina - they did it.” Schwarzenegger sparked a minor media tempest a few months back by calling Cubans and Puerto Ricans feisty and temperamental. Yes, Gibson was drunk. The latest edition of Survivor isn’t all that popular. Sacha Cohen is just being funny (he’s Jewish himself), and the politician Schwarzenegger was discussing didn’t take offense. But taken together and compared to the past, the rising number of racist incidents and entertainment certainly could be the front edge of the move “toward anger, intolerance, disagreement and exclusion,” as discussed in past issues.

September 2006, EWFF
The emergence of a bearish twist on the concept of becoming an instant millionaire is another important connection to the summer of 2000, when the first leg of the bear market was in the same wave position as the current decline is now. The July 2000, EWFF stated that one key pop culture clue that “hints at a 180-degree turn” was Who Wants to Be A Millionaire’s June 2000 ratings loss to an emerging new show called Survivor, a “reality” program that offered $1 million to the lone survivor of a grueling jungle contest. The socionomic implications of the latest Survivor series are even more starkly bearish. In the current edition of the show, contestants for the $1 million prize will be divided into four teams - blacks, Asians, Latinos and whites. The racial format has “enraged” many who say it promotes divisiveness. As we said in March, the “coming trend of negative social psychology will be characterized by polarization between and among various racial” groups. Protestors want the show banned, an impulse that also betrays the shift of the trend from up to down. As EWFF said in July 2000, “one of the most visible images of a mood shift” is being broadcast on network TV.