Social Justice Warriors and the Professionally Offended

[Natebishop3]

So to you blackface isn't racist?

Just to clarify, do you consider dressing up as a famous black person as "blackface?"

So like.... if someone decided to dress up as Obama for Halloween, would you consider that racist?

 

[Denny Crane]

If you want the most technical term, our country is a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic. Our form of government, the constitution limits the power of government. We elect representatives, so it's not a pure democracy. But we do elect them by majority rule so it is democratic. And the form of, the infrastructure, the total form of government, is republican, it is a republic.

Great. I'm glad you agree we should limit government.

 

[Denny Crane]

Yes. Even though it was funny as hell, Dave chappelle did a racist thing.

Why is it RACIST and not just RACIAL or ETHNIC?

Black face is one thing and has a history rooted in all things evil done to slaves and former slaves.

The others? I'm not so sure.

 

[santeesioux]

 

[Natebishop3]

Well those are just historically accurate reenactors, right?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Comedians get a free pass imo, at least as far as their act goes. If they are actual racists then that's a different thing, but joking about tiny Asian cocks is always hilarious.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

 

[blue32]

I don't understand any of those costumes for kids.

Whatever happened to dressing up like cartoon characters and super heroes and shit.... sheesh.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I don't understand any of those costumes for kids.

Whatever happened to dressing up like cartoon characters and super heroes and shit.... sheesh.

I've never seen any of those costumes on kids before besides the native one lol

 

[speeds]

It is an attempt at liberalism that is so utterly self-absorbed that it comes back around to being something intensely Orwellian. An offshoot of white knighting, these beta males and fat-faced arch-feminists define themselves by the intensity of offence they register at the most benign triggers. It's part of the hipster subculture born of college campuses who think sticking up for what amounts to a damsel in distress caricature culminates in validation as a cultural sensitivity paragon. In a free society you have no right to not be offended. The reality is that the "PC Culture" that aggrieved middle-to-late aged white men moan about is not nearly as prevalent or effectual as they suggest (another aspect of victim culture). Don Imus still has a job. The nature of these cultural vultures is to move on to new targets before the old ones are fully consumed.

 

[speeds]

Comedians get a free pass imo, at least as far as their act goes. If they are actual racists then that's a different thing, but joking about tiny Asian cocks is always hilarious.

Depends on how funny they actually are. Don Rickles ate shit for the last decade on Letterman, Conan, etc. The Polak over there is doing this and the Jew in the back is telling the black guy to do this... in fifty years Dave Chapelle's white guy voice might be just as flat. Hard to say.

 

[santeesioux]

It is an attempt at liberalism that is so utterly self-absorbed that it comes back around to being something intensely Orwellian. An offshoot of white knighting, these beta males and fat-faced arch-feminists define themselves by the intensity of offence they register at the most benign triggers. It's part of the hipster subculture born of college campuses who think sticking up for what amounts to a damsel in distress caricature amounts to validation as a cultural sensitivity paragon. In a free society you have no right to not be offended. The reality is that the "PC Culture" that aggrieved middle-to-late aged white men moan about is not nearly as prevalent or effectual as they suggest (another aspect of victim culture). Don Imus still has a job. The nature of these cultural vultures is to move on to new targets before the old ones are fully consumed.

I really wish Opie and Anthony was still a thing and not washed up so we could hear them rip these people to shreds every morning.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

 

[speeds]

I really wish Opie and Anthony was still a thing and not washed up so we could hear them rip these people to shreds every morning.

There are several cultural critics doing a middling to poor job of this at the moment, like Gavin McInnes, Lauren Southern, Joe Rogan, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Richard Dawkins' clumsy Twitter doppelgänger. People criticizing victim culture without also participating in it.

I think Sam Harris is the brightest of the bunch but he really doesn't have time to address it often enough.


As an aside, The Oqie Show and TACS are beyond resuscitation.

 

[santeesioux]

There are several cultural critics doing a middling to poor job of this at the moment, like Gavin McInnes, Lauren Southern, Joe Rogan, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Richard Dawkins' clumsy Twitter doppelgänger. People criticizing victim culture without also participating in it.

I think Sam Harris is the brightest of the bunch but he really doesn't have time to address it often enough.


As an aside, The Oqie Show and TACS are beyond resuscitation.

Joe Rogan seems like the best of the bunch. I've heard that Gavin guy on the free weekly hour long podcast Anthony gives out in the rare instances I'm bored enough to listen to his crap these days and he seems like a real tryhard douchebag. I know of that Milo guy and you can just tell he's in it for the clicks and comes off as very fake.

I haven't listened to the Opie and Jimmy show, but I have heard bad things, and Anthony is a complete mess that is washed up.

 

[dviss1]

No:
See this:

Racist:

1. synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacist More
   a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another

adjective
noun: racist; plural noun: racists; adjective: racist

1. 1.
   having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another

Painting your face white or black and joking about a culture isn't racist, unless the jokes, or talk is of course racist in syntax.

Yeah we're going to listen to the white people define racism...

 

[dviss1]

That's actually pretty spot on really. I think even Tosh.0 gets shit for barely being racist

No that MF says some racist shit... That's his whole shtick...

 

[speeds]

Joe Rogan seems like the best of the bunch. I've heard that Gavin guy on the free weekly hour long podcast Anthony gives out in the rare instances I'm bored enough to listen to his crap these days and he seems like a real tryhard douchebag. I know of that Milo guy and you can just tell he's in it for the clicks and comes off as very fake.

I haven't listened to the Opie and Jimmy show, but I have heard bad things, and Anthony is a complete mess that is washed up.

McInnis and Yiannopoulos and some others occupy a space that Dennis Miller was in a decade or two ago. They realized that in their profession being counter-culture meant pretending to be conservative and watching people lose their minds over it. I don't know what predicated McInnis' ousting from Vice but apparently he got to be too much of whatever he is to be around (not that Vice is perfect). Yiannopoulos is a shit disturber who is in it for his own amusement.

O&J is a trainwreck and if (edit: resident coot) had a live broadcast it would be TACS.

 

[santeesioux]

McInnis and Yiannopoulos and some others occupy a space that Dennis Miller was in a decade or two ago. They realized that in their profession being counter-culture meant pretending to be conservative and watching people lose their minds over it. I don't know what predicated McInnis' ousting from Vice but apparently he got to be too much of whatever he is to be around (not that Vice is perfect). Yiannopoulos is a shit disturber who is in it for his own amusement.

O&J is a trainwreck and if (edit: resident coot) had a live broadcast it would be TACS.

I kind of stopped watching that Vice HBO show because the hipster hosts they have are unwatchable, and the website is a complete trainwreck these days, so I'm kind of shocked that Gavin guy had anything to do with it at this point.

Not even Norton can prop it up? I had to stop listening to the show several years before Anthony was even fired because he was so far off the reservation, and it's even worse now that he's cooped up in his hugbox with his yes men and teenage girlfriends.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I was going to post another response but I deleted it. This way the only truly offensive thing in this thread is having Dave Chappelle equated with White Chicks.

Fucking hideous, that Wayans garbage should be scrubbed from the internet.

 

[blue32]

Yeah we're going to listen to the white people define racism...

First you don't know me, and you don't know what race I am. Typical reply from your soapbox though.

Secondly, I didn't define it. The dictionary did. So if you have a fucking problem with it, maybe its you. But what I posted is certainly right.


Lastly, I find it highly ironic/hypocritical, that you'll sit there and scream racist on every white person around, but you'll give a free pass to Dave Chappelle for his racist acts; oh but its okay if its racist, "It was damn funny".

For all the bullshit you spout off in here about racism, you certainly do not help the situation at all.

Edit: sorry for the aggressive tone. Pre morning caffeine.

 

[speeds]

I kind of stopped watching that Vice HBO show because the hipster hosts they have are unwatchable, and the website is a complete trainwreck these days, so I'm kind of shocked that Gavin guy had anything to do with it at this point.

Not even Norton can prop it up? I had to stop listening to the show several years before Anthony was even fired because he was so far off the reservation, and it's even worse now that he's cooped up in his hugbox with his yes men and teenage girlfriends.

Pete Davidson is the best thing about O&J right now because he hearkens back to when comedians would come on and lay waste to everyone in studio. When he's not around and they don't have Colin or someone call in the show is a comedy black hole (not a Sherrod joke but he is also a black hole). Apparently the Stangles are gone in a few months but I have low expectations that Opie will let everyone off the leash since he is an oversensitive power hungry hack. Jimmy has been in worm mode since the break-up and wallows in the morning zoo show they've become.

 

[speeds]

Side note: Killin' Them Softly came out almost 16-years ago. Using it as an example of modern racial comedy is a stretch.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Side note: Killin' Them Softly came out almost 16-years ago.

One of the best stand ups I've ever seen. His second special where he talks about people wanting to know what ja rule things about a worldly tragedy was gold too

 

[santeesioux]

Pete Davidson is the best thing about O&J right now because he hearkens back to when comedians would come on and lay waste to everyone in studio. When he's not around and they don't have Colin or someone call in the show is a comedy black hole (not a Sherrod joke but he is also a black hole). Apparently the Stangles are gone in a few months but I have low expectations that Opie will let everyone off the leash since he is an oversensitive power hungry hack. Jimmy has been in worm mode since the break-up and wallows in the morning zoo show they've become.

I haven't heard the Stangles yet but they're apparently a comedy vacuum.

 

[MarAzul]

listen to the white people

Oh no! Can't do that shit! Ha!