MTV's Real World Heads to Auschwitz U.S.A. (Denver, Colorado)
The 18th Season of MTV's "The Real World" series will take place in Denver. The season has already been cast, but has yet to be shot and aired.
"Denver has absolutely everything we could hope for -- diversity, activities, energy and nightlife," said Lois Curren, executive vice president of MTV Series Entertainment.
Both Colorado Governor Bill Owens and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper expressed their support for the series."This is a tremendous opportunity for Denver to showcase our cultural and recreational vibrancy to a very large, young audience," Hickenlooper said.
Oh, yeah, this is a tremendous opportunity for Denver to showcase its cultural vibrancy, all right. Or, rather, its bigotry and canine genocide. This is the opportunity for Denver to showcase 1,086.* That's the approximate number of "Pit Bull" looking dogs Denver has killed since it resumed its breed ban in May 2005 after winning a lower court battle to thwart the new state law prohibiting breed discrimination, making Denver analogous to an Auschwitz for canines born of the wrong breed.
Denver has a lot to showcase. 1,086 carcasses. 1,086 broken families. 1,086 dogs killed, not because they did anything to merit a death sentence, but because they were born with the wrong looks in the wrong city.
MTV, if this is part of what you were hoping for, then you got it.
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* Note: 1,072 is the actual number of Pit Bull type dogs killed in Denver as of April 7, 2006. That amounts to an average of about 100 dogs killed per month, breaking that down further, that leads to an estimated additional 14 dogs euthanized between April 7, 2006 and April 11, 2006, the date of publication for this blog entry.