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Censorship, rape culture and free-speech
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 RE: Censorship, rape culture and free-speech
February 28, 2011 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2011 at 11:33 am by Jaysyn.)
Talk about missing the point. The idea was no matter how bad the victims are being mistreated, the *game* won't let you rescue more than five of them. The actual comic was just a situation setting that up & showing the absurdity of it.
BTW, last time I looked, there were no such thing as dickwolves. I hope her thoughtcrime accusations get her little blog a lot of pageviews.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
 RE: Censorship, rape culture and free-speech
February 28, 2011 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2011 at 12:16 pm by Skipper.)
Read through the time time line of this incident because I had no idea any of it was happening and its really amazing how much of a shit storm a cartoon is causing. A cartoon that, as far as I'm concerned, is pretty tame and CLEARLY isn't laughing at rape.
No topic should be out of bounds for comedy. It's simple. Once you start saying you can't laugh at things, THAT'S when other things become offensive. Obviously, using rape (or murder or suicide or whatever) in comedy is one thing, but when you start using individual situations or victims as a source for the laughs with no other intent than to cause suffering or further pain then that's when things get a bit more complex and a bit of common sense should be used. But for the most part anything should be admissible with comedy. If you don't like what you hear, don't listen to that comedian or show or whatever it is. It really is that simple, life's to short to spend your time being offended by what others find funny when it really is causing no real harm. Nobody has the right to not be offended. 
Lol @dickwolves! When I played WOW I found it funny that my hero was only allowed to rescue the set amount of trapped slaves. It is required for game mechanics but makes the joke funny. So obviously NOT laughing at rape, but using it to describe unbelievably horrible treatment of the slaves.
Yeah. This seems to be another example of people overreacting to something fairly tame. I see this all the time in the disciplinary actions of schools who punish students for wearing "offensive" clothing.
Oh, you know, whatever.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan 
If something offends you then you don't understand anything about how the world works...
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I often wondered where, in my daily life, left-wing authoritarians disappeared too. I can see right wing authoritarianism in Wisconsin, anything to do with the Koch brothers, the motion in the House to strip PBS of all it's funding (provoked by PBS's coverage of Wisconsin, when the rest of the media focuses scant attention and devotes time to Egypt), etc,.
I found the left wing authoritarians, in the form of the rape-culture proponents and self-described opponents. If you don't have an enemy, invent one it seems.
I don't know. I would tend to think that left-wing authoritarians would be communists. As such, I think it's because the right-wing authoritarians aren't seen as such, even despite their obviously extreme views.
Which I suppose goes to show that the right wing media has demonized the left wing portion of the ideaology so much that the extreme left wing can't even get on the air like assholes like Rush Limbaugh can.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Wow - did we just get a consensus? The hell?
That's the last time I be edgy... Not. 
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