It is very hard to be correct and popular.
"Really, you want to have me let the terrorist go free? What about the other guy?"
Crucify Him
It is very hard to be correct and popular.
In general as an entrepreneur and business owner the advice I give is to be apolitical and un-opinionated when it comes to dealing with your market. Comics break that paradigm by having a job that literally requires them to take a chance on offending people on a daily basis. As you said earlier, being able to take a joke and laugh at yourself is an important aspect of emotional strength and health.This is a good point. When you attach what you say to your paycheck be careful you haven't made a deal with the devil.
It is very hard to be correct and popular.
In general as an entrepreneur and business owner the advice I give is to be apolitical and un-opinionated when it comes to dealing with your market. Comics break that paradigm by having a job that literally requires them to take a chance on offending people on a daily basis. As you said earlier, being able to take a joke and laugh at yourself is an important aspect of emotional strength and health.
We are in danger of the dawn of rule by the offended class
Free speech has always had consequences. In the past, if someone said something that offended me, I was free to react as I chose to see appropriate, whether that was to ignore, challenge, refute, etc. It didn't involve group-think or gov't intervention.
Today is a different environment due to the emergence and evolution of social media and the information explosion. It exaggerates everything to the point of hysteria and there has been very little consideration of the consequences that it is having.
Most people today are so consumed with social media that they have little to no grounding in history and are therefore not well equipped to give current events proper context. Our education systems are failing terribly in this regard.
Most outrage culture emerges from the 60's era civil rights and sexual revolution movements. Add to that the post-modern transformation of Communism into Identity Politics and you arrive at rule by the offended.
Let me know when you've grasped all that and we can then have a discussion about the genetic, cultural, and health concerns as they relate to origins of racism.
I imagine a comic has to balance that. Or at least consider it. Some don't care, and that's fine of course. Sure, it would be nice if they could say whatever they want whenever they wanted but that's not the world we live in.
What's the old saying? "The only thing worse than a hypocrite is an unemployed one."
Unless the comics deliberately offending people as part of his/her act and persona, which means they care much more about offending people as they have to include it directed in just the right way to remain popular with their fans. Jeremy Clarkson does that.
Reminds me of Frankie Boyle.
I bet that balance is insanely tricky.
I get that. But my lack of understanding comes from people who state they don't like stand-up comedy in general. It's just jokes, you can't take them seriously. If a person has a problem with humor and laughter, what kinda of dark brooding person are they?He wants people to have a problem with it, its a fairly common gimmick in standup.
Yep, Frankie Boyle is fantastic at what he does. The Brass Eye school of comedy.
Stewart Lee takes it to the next level as audience abuse is a major part of his act. He has routines that gently encourage the audience to laugh at other parts of the UK in an increasingly cutting way then he turns the same savage humour on them and ramps it right up almost daring them to be offended at regional jokes. They want to be angry, but they can't as they've already been laughing along with it so he can really push the boundaries whilst simultaneously showing the audience how hypocritical they are.
His Braveheart routine is one of the best bits of standup I've seen.
See, that's the kind of clever stuff I like to hear about. I'll try to get 'round to Mr. Lee.
Phisto be naughty? Look at that innocent little smirk on his face!You can stream three series of his TV show comedy vehicle on the BBC's website. Outside the UK he's sometimes on Netflix (not right now though).
Or you can be naughty and watch his stuff anyway.
It's not just about media people. It extends far beyond that. People are getting fired from normal everyday jobs because they've posted a nasty joke on their Twitter many years ago. There are people out there that will stop at nothing trying to ruin a life for somebody, because they believe their views on a world are the only ones worth having. They will contact your job, your family, dig up and leak your personal information to the public like it's their personal problem. Getting offended at a " a white guy, an Asian guy, and a black guy walk into a bar" joke. And I don't think Chappelle has problems with racist jokes seeing as he's on good terms with many comedians that have been accused of telling racist jokes."Cancel culture" just comes across to me as "I said something heinous and now the advertisers aren't paying me, I thought this was a free country", like nobody's arresting him or anything for his bit, they're just... disapproving. Free speech versus free speech, freedom of speech isn't freedom from criticism, etc etc etc. I'd be interested to see whether Chapelle would have the same reaction to a white comedian dropping a bunch of racist jokes.
Yeah, but just like "political correctness" and "SJW", the actual meaning of the phrase has diverged from how people actually use it.It's not just about media people. It extends far beyond that. People are getting fired from normal everyday jobs because they've posted a nasty joke on their Twitter many years ago. There are people out there that will stop at nothing trying to ruin a life for somebody, because they believe their views on a world are the only ones worth having. They will contact your job, your family, dig up and leak your personal information to the public like it's their personal problem. Getting offended at a " a white guy, an Asian guy, and a black guy walk into a bar" joke. And I don't think Chappelle has problems with racist jokes seeing as he's on good terms with many comedians that have been accused of telling racist jokes.
I think we're both rational people here, I wasn't talking about edge cases Any ideology taken to the extreme is dangerous.Yeah, but just like "political correctness" and "SJW", the actual meaning of the phrase has diverged from how people actually use it.
"What do you mean I can't call other players the n-word in a pegi 7 rated game? It's political correctness gone mad!"
I don't know, but black lipstick is probably involved.If a person has a problem with humor and laughter, what kinda of dark brooding person are they?
Imagine if you were labelled and being made fun of on a regular basis, and not in a light-hearted manner either. I don't think you'd find it funny then if they'd made fun of you in public too, in the name of entertainment.I get that. But my lack of understanding comes from people who state they don't like stand-up comedy in general. It's just jokes, you can't take them seriously. If a person has a problem with humor and laughter, what kinda of dark brooding person are they?
Unemployment means never having to worry about who you offend.
See, this is a first world perspective. But as you move farther away, you'll find that large organisations keep track of what you say in public too, and if you post anything that can be interpreted as criticising the government, the church and so on, you'll be in much more trouble than just unemployment. Then you do still have to worry about who you offend, even if you have no job. For example, going to the more extreme: getting blacklisted by employers, your relatives getting blacklisted too, going to jail for plenty of years, arriving at last to the death penalty.It's not just about media people. It extends far beyond that. People are getting fired from normal everyday jobs because they've posted a nasty joke on their Twitter many years ago. There are people out there that will stop at nothing trying to ruin a life for somebody, because they believe their views on a world are the only ones worth having. They will contact your job, your family, dig up and leak your personal information to the public like it's their personal problem. Getting offended at a " a white guy, an Asian guy, and a black guy walk into a bar" joke.
Though it might be considered "first world" by everyone else's standards, I reckon Caramel Clown to be dead on the money; today's cultural shift to social justice is all about de-platforming your opponent rather than debating your point in an exercise of free speech. This new shift would include weaponizing the #metoo movement. Less sophisticated countries might be more draconian, but the reason this discussion is important in Western Civilization is because we don't want it to get worse. Don't think it can? Go watch a video of Antifa beating down a journalist in Portland a few weeks back and tell me that you don't see the rise of evil.Imagine if you were labelled and being made fun of on a regular basis, and not in a light-hearted manner either. I don't think you'd find it funny then if they'd made fun of you in public too, in the name of entertainment.
See, this is a first world perspective. But as you move farther away, you'll find that large organisations keep track of what you say in public too, and if you post anything that can be interpreted as criticising the government, the church and so on, you'll be in much more trouble than just unemployment. Then you do still have to worry about who you offend, even if you have no job. For example, going to the more extreme: getting blacklisted by employers, your relatives getting blacklisted too, going to jail for plenty of years, arriving at last to the death penalty.
Or maybe if you just someone off well enough, they'll report you to the authorities for whatever made-up reason.
Of course, all this is not new to social media, the general principle is older than feudalism. It's just that the internet makes it incredibly easy for anyone to preserve and find what you said or did, even years ago.
Imagine if you were labelled and being made fun of on a regular basis, and not in a light-hearted manner either.
See, this is a first world perspective.
But as you move farther away, you'll find that large organisations keep track of what you say in public too, and if you post anything that can be interpreted as criticising the government, the church and so on, you'll be in much more trouble than just unemployment. Then you do still have to worry about who you offend, even if you have no job. For example, going to the more extreme: getting blacklisted by employers, your relatives getting blacklisted too, going to jail for plenty of years, arriving at last to the death penalty.
Or maybe if you just someone off well enough, they'll report you to the authorities for whatever made-up reason.
Of course, all this is not new to social media, the general principle is older than feudalism. It's just that the internet makes it incredibly easy for anyone to preserve and find what you said or did, even years ago.
Go watch a video of Antifa beating down a journalist in Portland a few weeks back and tell me that you don't see the rise of evil.
Though it might be considered "first world" by everyone else's standards, I reckon Caramel Clown to be dead on the money; today's cultural shift to social justice is all about de-platforming your opponent rather than debating your point in an exercise of free speech. This new shift would include weaponizing the #metoo movement. Less sophisticated countries might be more draconian, but the reason this discussion is important in Western Civilization is because we don't want it to get worse. Don't think it can? Go watch a video of Antifa beating down a journalist in Portland a few weeks back and tell me that you don't see the rise of evil.