Why do people not understand context anymore? Amy Poehler Joke

[Punk Hazard]

The point is that the only reason people are mad, is because other people are mad. Back then someone probably didn't agree with a comedians act on gay people, but they weren't offended by it. Now we have people who don't agree with someones act, go on twitter and rant about it and stir up all of this false outrage that they otherwise would not have been outraged about if they had not been given a platform to be outraged on.

I'm sure you knew every single person's views back then.

Or maybe they are mad because it's worth being mad about? You are being unjustifiably presumptuous in your aims to dismiss the validity of people getting offended. You said it yourself, it was made to offend, the point of it is "This will cause upset, backlash and offense," how can you be surprised that people end up offended? It's not false outrage just because more than one person agree it's bad. If someone gets on Twitter praising a movie scene or joke an a bunch of people agree and hype it are they stirring up false appreciation? Gtfoh

 

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I'm sure you knew every single person's views back then.

Or maybe they are mad because it's worth being mad about? You are being unjustifiably presumptuous in your aims to dismiss the validity of people getting offended. You said it yourself, it was made to offend, the point of it is "This will cause upset, backlash and offense," how can you be surprised that people end up offended? It's not false outrage just because more than one person agree it's bad. If someone gets on Twitter praising a movie scene or joke an a bunch of people agree and hype it are they stirring up false appreciation? Gtfoh

People were meant to get offended in the show.

 

[Punk Hazard]

People were meant to get offended in the show.

Let me ask you this. If a show makes a scene where someone violently vomits bile as their guts hang out because they want it to disgust people in the show, does that mean people in real life wouldn't feel disgust looking at it?

 

[Disquiet]

I skimmed through the article and the thread. But judging from this post in particular:

The context of the joke was to be offensive. The character in the show made an offensive tweet that she got in trouble for. The second character asks her what the joke was, and she proceeds to tell us the joke about Blue Ivy when she's older getting peed on by R Kelly. The point of the joke was to rustle jimmies in the show. The fact that people in real life had their jimmies rustled by an offensive tweet in a tv show, I don't know, you tell me.

Are you saying it's the equivalent to perhaps a movie about racism, and someone in the movie says something offensive about black people and then social media folks sparks an outrage about it? Or even some kind of religious movie where someone says something offensive about religion in the movie and receive some kind of social media backlash in real life? Or some pedophile in a cop show/movie making some kind of advancement/remark toward a child?


I don't see much sense in this to be honest. This would completely redefine the purpose of eggs, and I like them in my refrigerator more than I do on the floor.

Though some people arguing in favor of this probably wouldn't agree that they should be punished for it. There's an distinguishable line between saying something offensive and absolutely not being allowed to say it because it's offensive.

 

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I skimmed through the article and the thread. But judging from this post in particular:




Are you saying it's the equivalent to perhaps a movie about racism, and someone in the movie says something offensive about black people and then social media folks sparks an outrage about it? Or even some kind of religious movie where someone says something offensive about religion in the movie and receive some kind of social media backlash in real life? Or some pedophile in a cop show/movie making some kind of advancement/remark toward a child?


I don't see much sense in this to be honest. This would completely redefine the purpose of eggs, and I like them in my refrigerator more than I do on the floor.

Though some people arguing in favor of this probably wouldn't agree that they should be punished for it. There's an distinguishable line between saying something offensive and absolutely not being allowed to say it because it's offensive.

It's like people being upset at how the slaves were treated in Django. It's like being upset at how many times the N word was used in Django.