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No, really? And comedy isn't?
by fleddr 5y ago
No, really? And comedy isn't?
- krapp 5y agoNo. Comedy and fiction are separate concepts. For instance, what we're discussing in this thread is comedy being used in a non-fictional context, which makes your implication that we should be more concerned about violence against fictional characters seem like a comparison between apples and a picture of an orange. The reason no one is up in arms about people getting killed in Squid Game is that it isn't real. The trans community, meanwhile, does actually exist.
- fleddr 5y agoNo harm was inflicted in the comedy. It was a joke. Jokes can offend. Some people are extremely easily offended, some laugh at the harshest joke at their expense. Get over yourself.
- falcolas 5y ago“You should go kill yourself [insert slur here], loljk” This will always be fine to say since it’s a joke, right? Of course it’s not. Shit being couched as a joke still smells, looks, and tastes like shit.
- fleddr 5y agoIt's not a funny joke, but yes, that too falls in the range of comedy, distasteful and harsh at it is. It's dark comedy. Yet it seems to me you purposefully escalated it 10 levels above the supposed insult in the show. I play a fair amount of games and pretty much every day I see in chat something like this: "I hope your mother dies of cancer". This does nothing to me. It doesn't upset me. Because context matters. It's some anonymous kid cowardly saying the nastiest thing they can think of. Which in male to male dialogue means going for the holiest of holiest: their mother. Who cares? Even if it would offend me...so what? What happens next? Nothing. You don't have a right to not be insulted.
- loudtieblahblah 5y agoThe problem is, someone will always find offense at something especially once culture teaches them it gives them power over others. Once you give in to the extreme end, you'll be giving in to more and more and more. People tried canceling Weird AL bc he said "spastic" in Word Crimes, and that's supposedly ableist. What's he to do? Tell you its only a joke so you can come back with your retort about "these types of people" for whom it's "always a joke" Power has been given to the mobs and they keep moving the line and we're at their mercy of what is allowed and not allowed to not only be funny but be said at all Even more maddening is that this little group of authoritarians spend so much time crying about fascism anytime someone is to the left or the right of the Democratic Party, without having a hard look in the mirror. All these perpetually offended types weren't mad at Netflix when it peddled a movie that paid preteen girl actresses to twerk and grind on a floor for a film with "a message". But black man hurt fee fees by trying to find a middle ground no less, so let's bring out the tiki torches.
- krapp 5y ago> Get over yourself. LOL. OK edgelord. I can see I'm not going to get an actual conversation from you. Have a nice day.
- loudtieblahblah 5y agoHe shouldn't have said get over yourself... But I've grown to find anyone who whips out "edge lord" automatically loses the discussion.
- dang 5y agoWould you please not break the site guidelines just because someone else did? It's really dismaying to see an established user like you stooping to that level. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoPersonal attacks like that will get you banned on HN. Cliché flamewar comments, which this also is, aren't much better. Worse yet, you've repeatedly been posting flamewar comments to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28868269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28868269). Would you please review the site guidelines and stop posting like that? We're trying for a (very) different kind of discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fleddr 5y agoI don't consider any of these examples personal attacks, so I hereby agree: please do ban my account.