Yes, context is everything
And cancel culture sometimes ignores that
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Has Chris Rock been canceled?
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And cancel culture sometimes ignores that
as a jew growing up in southern oc, i was degraded on the reg. i can still laugh at a jewish joke just like my gaybgtq+/black/brown/yellow friends can still laugh at an ethnic joke. its a joke.
these comedians are basically acting. playing a persona. do we cancel actors who play Nazis on TV/Movies. should they deny those roles for fear of backlash later? Cancel Ed Norton for American History X? What if an actor who accepts a role to play a queer person but in a dergatory or stereotypical way? Cancel them, the writer, the director, the film studio? Its such a slippery slope.
I watched the special last night. it was hilarious.
DC got his feelings hurt for being misunderstood.
His thesis is gays get a bigger bang for their buck playing the victim than black people.
I don't know if this is true.
He thinks it.
If it's true can he say it?
You really get a sense of him having his feelings hurt by what he thinks is unfair treatment and that makes it hard to be funny.
If you do taboo humor is better be fucking funny.
His thesis is gays get a bigger bang for their buck playing the victim than black people.
I don't know if this is true.
He thinks it.
If it's true can he say it?
You really get a sense of him having his feelings hurt by what he thinks is unfair treatment and that makes it hard to be funny.
If you do taboo humor is better be fucking funny.
100% agree. Sometimes.
I always like to bring Louis CK because there's everything in his standup that wokesters should get offended about but he's never received any flack for it (if you don't count phone masturbation but that wasn't an act).
He's been using all the trigger words, every single one of them.
Yet he never got "canceled" because context and because he's not punching down - he's making fun of himself and people who use those words in a derogatory way.
There's a difference.
Except yesterday you argued against how several of us who actually watched the special interpreted DCs comments and came to the same exact conclusion, while you were going off of an NPR article
Holy fook, just shut up with your interpretation of something that you didn't even to bother to watch.
You may have missed the part where I said I was Jewish? In junior high I was regularly degraded, made fun of for being a Jew, made the punchline in jokes just b/c of my religion; I was literally bullied for being a Jew. That was pretty degrading. Especially for a 12-13 year old. By your logic, since I have been degraded, I should be offended by Dave Chapelle's trans/gay/etc. jokes. But I'm not. If I thought there was malice intended in his jokes, I would likely be offended. Since I'm not picking up on any malice, but more of a commentary on current events, I'm not particularly offended. To each their own.
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That's like telling people to stop being obese instead of getting the vaccine.
There will always be obese people, so that can't be the solution.
Unless you don't care if they die.
(it's an analogy, don't @ me
)I would rather tell people to stop being obese AND to get the vaccine. Might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone ya know?
the dedication to Norm at the end made me really sad
I like Dave's delivery because he plays off that same pregnant pause and deadpan delivery that people like Norm, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, etc had
very timing-centric and depends on a lot of conversational sleight of hand...kind of lulling you in to forgetting that a punch line is building
I like Dave's delivery because he plays off that same pregnant pause and deadpan delivery that people like Norm, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, etc had
very timing-centric and depends on a lot of conversational sleight of hand...kind of lulling you in to forgetting that a punch line is building
He crafted a carefully designed volta at the end.
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Italian word for “turn.” In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and...
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But that don't matter no more.
People just get triggered when they hear trigger words.
You can't really do juvenalian satire anymore without triggering some people.
It's becomes and excuse to assert.
I rarely think any standup is funny.
But that could be envy on my part.
POCs get thrown the wolves just as fast as white supremacists (maybe even faster?) once they step outta line
