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Here we go... A thread about that Jimmy Carr joke.
Summary: No topic is off-limits for comedy, but that joke crossed the line, because even the reason he INTENDED it to be funny isn't actually OK. But I am worried it's being used to justify censorship in upcoming legislation.
Here we go... A thread about that Jimmy Carr joke.
Summary: No topic is off-limits for comedy, but that joke crossed the line, because even the reason he INTENDED it to be funny isn't actually OK. But I am worried it's being used to justify censorship in upcoming legislation.
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If you go to a Comedy show called "His Dark Materials", you can't complain the subject matter is too dark.
BUT good comics handle dark topics in neutral or even progressive ways. e.g. Using it to attack bigotry/ ridicule bigots.
Carr is usually a 'good comic'. But not here.
If you go to a Comedy show called "His Dark Materials", you can't complain the subject matter is too dark.
BUT good comics handle dark topics in neutral or even progressive ways. e.g. Using it to attack bigotry/ ridicule bigots.
Carr is usually a 'good comic'. But not here.
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Why did the Jimmy Carr joke cross the line?
He would never have said "Nobody mentions blacks being killed because nobody wants to talk about the positives." He chose "Gypsies". Because anti-black racism is too unpopular.
Romani people & Travellers don't have that protection.
Why did the Jimmy Carr joke cross the line?
He would never have said "Nobody mentions blacks being killed because nobody wants to talk about the positives." He chose "Gypsies". Because anti-black racism is too unpopular.
Romani people & Travellers don't have that protection.
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He wasn't supporting what happened to travellers (as some say). He was playing on anti-traveller sentiment in the UK.
Legitimising bad feeling against a group the government is CURRENTLY criminalising cos they don't have the same PR as BLM?..
Bad look.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
He wasn't supporting what happened to travellers (as some say). He was playing on anti-traveller sentiment in the UK.
Legitimising bad feeling against a group the government is CURRENTLY criminalising cos they don't have the same PR as BLM?..
Bad look.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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Which is why I'm really uncomfortable with the fact that the same government who've been trying to put travellers in PRISON...
... are now acting like they're introducing online censorship laws to PROTECT travellers, because they're supposedly outraged about Jimmy Carr. 🤔
Which is why I'm really uncomfortable with the fact that the same government who've been trying to put travellers in PRISON...
... are now acting like they're introducing online censorship laws to PROTECT travellers, because they're supposedly outraged about Jimmy Carr. 🤔
And personally...
When I watched it for the first time, I loved the show as a whole, but with that joke...
I predicted the punchline before he said it and my brain was like "😬😬 naaaaahh don't say it. It's too obvious and it's not funny" and then he said it. 😔
When I watched it for the first time, I loved the show as a whole, but with that joke...
I predicted the punchline before he said it and my brain was like "😬😬 naaaaahh don't say it. It's too obvious and it's not funny" and then he said it. 😔
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