Once again, Italian Americans are depicted in a negative way. This time, the bigots are the creators of Law and Order SUV. They are working on an episode based on Dominique Strauss-J'accuse but they changed the character to an Italian. read below.
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Italians offended by DSK likeness
J'accuse! The chairman of the Italic Institute of America is not happy with "Law & Order: SVU" producers' decision to depict a character based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn as an Italian. Rosario Iaconis, who describes the institute as a "think tank devoted to the continuity of Italian culture," tells us that "SVU" creator and producer Dick Wolf "slanders Italy" by "transmuting" DSK, "the frisky French pol accused of sexual assault" into a "lascivious" — and, we predict, Berlusconi-esque—Italian dignitary played by actor Franco Nero for an upcoming episode.
Instead of "recycling hoary stereotypes," Iaconis says producers could have based their "DSK doppelganger" on a number of scandal-scarred public figures including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards or Moshe Katsav, the former Israeli president who is serving seven years in prison for rape.
A spokesman for the show said he was unable to comment by deadline, but noted that the program is fictional.
FOR THIS, LAW AND ORDER SVU IS IN OUR HALL OF SHAME
