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The whole issue is a tempest in a teacup, IMHO. I've never heard of the nut cases (from NY I believe) prior to this incident. Jackasses making veiled threats
by sgoraya 16y ago
The whole issue is a tempest in a teacup, IMHO. I've never heard of the nut cases (from NY I believe) prior to this incident. Jackasses making veiled threats and TV networks obliging the jackasses by censorship.
There may have been a slight issue if South Park was singling out Islam, but they have not. They have gone after everyone and everything, many times in bad taste, but that is their appeal and that is why I sometimes watch the show.
- seertaak 16y ago> Jackasses making veiled threats and TV networks obliging the jackasses by censorship. Yeah, well: it's all fun and games until someone gets knifed on the street, as happened to Theo Van Gogh. I'm sure the guy who did that was a jackass, too. My point is that we shouldn't equivocate or relativize on the jackassery of the various parties. What the TV networks did was lamentable but, in light of recent events, comprehensible. What 'jackasses' making veiled threats and those that carry them out do is utterly reprehensible and doesn't merit the lightness of the word you chose. The two types of jackasses you mention are totally different. Ass-covering is surely not so big a sin as killing or threatening to.