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You should be free to make the jokes, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to laugh, or ever give you any money ever again. So choose carefully… :-)

M3L0NM4N 4y ago
Fair point, but society should ask itself if it avoids laughing at jokes because they're not funny, or fear of others thinking they agree with the joke as if it were a factual statement. And did someone make the joke because it was ironic, or because they believe it? Some of us seem to have lost the definition of a joke, and if I make a joke that is deemed offensive towards a minority group, would you never give me money again because I now so obviously hate that group of people I made a joke of? Societal anecdotes would say yes, but this doesn't make sense logically.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  > … and if I make a joke that is deemed offensive towards a minority group, would you never give me money again because I now so obviously hate that group of people I made a joke of? Of course, and you shall be shunned like that Black Mirror episode where the people were blurred out.
pvaldes 4y ago
Rowan Atkinson could literally sit in a room watching their little toes and people still would give him money.
goldenchrome 4y ago
Comedians already know this from day 1. It’s incredibly difficult to say funny things for 5 minutes straight, let alone a whole hour special. The people trying to limit the speech of comedians aren’t the same people who are going to comedy shows usually. That’s the core of the issue. The people who don’t like comedians having free speech typically aren’t into comedy at all.
joecot 4y ago
There wouldn't be an endless series of unfunny comedians making "Comedy" specials called "Trigger Warning: How I'm Canceled by Snowflake Cucks" for Netflix if people weren't watching it. Our primary problem isn't that there's a bandwagon of male comedians whose whole show is crying about snowflakes cancelling them or making exactly one joke about trans people. It's that there's a ready audience excited to watch them do it. If there wasn't Netflix wouldn't keep making the specials. I'm still going to call the comedians and Netflix immoral hacks for cashing in on it, though. And I hope the cancellations keep rolling in so Netflix can see us vote no with our wallets.
rowanG077 4y ago
I agree with this. All these protest and cancel stuff is ridiculous. Just let the market figure it out. If people wouldn't watch, for example, Dave Chapelle then he wouldn't have a platform anyway.
blub 4y ago
What are you talking about? “We” aren’t just going to not laugh or not give money to “you”. No, “we” will harass, perform character assassination, boycott anyone associated with “you” and try to harm “you” financially and derail “your” career. Such concerted harm campaigns should be outright illegal, especially when stirred and directed intentionally, as they usually are.

M3L0NM4N 4y ago

Fair point, but society should ask itself if it avoids laughing at jokes because they're not funny, or fear of others thinking they agree with the joke as if it were a factual statement. And did someone make the joke because it was ironic, or because they believe it? Some of us seem to have lost the definition of a joke, and if I make a joke that is deemed offensive towards a minority group, would you never give me money again because I now so obviously hate that group of people I made a joke of? Societal anecdotes would say yes, but this doesn't make sense logically.

UncleEntity 4y ago
> … and if I make a joke that is deemed offensive towards a minority group, would you never give me money again because I now so obviously hate that group of people I made a joke of? Of course, and you shall be shunned like that Black Mirror episode where the people were blurred out.

pvaldes 4y ago

Rowan Atkinson could literally sit in a room watching their little toes and people still would give him money.

goldenchrome 4y ago

Comedians already know this from day 1. It’s incredibly difficult to say funny things for 5 minutes straight, let alone a whole hour special. The people trying to limit the speech of comedians aren’t the same people who are going to comedy shows usually. That’s the core of the issue. The people who don’t like comedians having free speech typically aren’t into comedy at all.

joecot 4y ago

There wouldn't be an endless series of unfunny comedians making "Comedy" specials called "Trigger Warning: How I'm Canceled by Snowflake Cucks" for Netflix if people weren't watching it. Our primary problem isn't that there's a bandwagon of male comedians whose whole show is crying about snowflakes cancelling them or making exactly one joke about trans people. It's that there's a ready audience excited to watch them do it. If there wasn't Netflix wouldn't keep making the specials. I'm still going to call the comedians and Netflix immoral hacks for cashing in on it, though. And I hope the cancellations keep rolling in so Netflix can see us vote no with our wallets.

rowanG077 4y ago

I agree with this. All these protest and cancel stuff is ridiculous. Just let the market figure it out. If people wouldn't watch, for example, Dave Chapelle then he wouldn't have a platform anyway.

blub 4y ago

What are you talking about? “We” aren’t just going to not laugh or not give money to “you”. No, “we” will harass, perform character assassination, boycott anyone associated with “you” and try to harm “you” financially and derail “your” career. Such concerted harm campaigns should be outright illegal, especially when stirred and directed intentionally, as they usually are.