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thucythucy

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25. It doesn't matter in the least to me

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 03:42 PM

Jul 2012

what Daniel Tosh "actually wanted."

What he actually said was, first, "Rape jokes are always funny" -a statement with which I assume most if not all rape survivors would disagree. And when a woman DID disagree, he responded by using the prospect, the image, the existence of rape to get her to shut up. How this is different from, say, threatening an African-American heckler with "a good old fashioned lynching" or a Jewish heckler with "how about a trip to the ovens?" I really can't see. Would you be equally complacent about somebody on stage saying, "Lynched black man jokes are always funny" or "gassed Jew jokes are always funny?"

I'll repeat: I don't give a good god damn if someone making such comments is liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, Stalinist, Social Democrat, Jehovah's Witness, atheist, recovering Unitarian, lapsed Whig or whatever. The comments are disgusting, and I would imagine downright frightening to most anyone who has ever been confronted by the reality of gang rape.

Really, it's not that complicated a point.

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So a Girl Walks into a Comedy Club…. [View all] LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 OP

I'm sorry but anyone who take anything Daniel Tosh says as serious is a fool Drale Jul 2012 #1

I think in order to qualify as satire LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #3

I love comedy. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #4

Who or what is he "satirizing?" thucythucy Jul 2012 #5

Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #7

He is a shock comedian Fearless Jul 2012 #9

And like most "shock comedians" thucythucy Jul 2012 #11

Rush Limbaugh is a conservative Fearless Jul 2012 #15

Inciting your audience to attack someone who heckled you? n/t LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #17

Clearly no one there took the statement seriously. Fearless Jul 2012 #19

And that of course makes it OK LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #21

It answers your question Fearless Jul 2012 #22

Please point me to a link showing George Carlin thucythucy Jul 2012 #18

Here... Fearless Jul 2012 #20

Carlin is responding in anger to a random heckler, thucythucy Jul 2012 #23

I'm saying that there is a difference Fearless Jul 2012 #24

It doesn't matter in the least to me thucythucy Jul 2012 #25

To me langauge is shades of grey not black and white. Fearless Jul 2012 #26

Do you think Bill O'Reilly actually wanted someone to shoot LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #27

This -- obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #31

When are gay bashing jokes funny? obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #30

IF a gay man or gay friendly man was making gay jokes? Fearless Jul 2012 #34

There are no such things as rape jokes obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #29

I wrote a long screed on Tumblr. liberalmuse Jul 2012 #2

Spam deleted by Warren DeMontague (MIR Team) dumbaboutoberapedbro Jul 2012 #6

I take it you haven't really watched tosh.0 rwilymz Jul 2012 #8

Aww, you registered just to tell me to see an eye doctor? LadyHawkAZ Jul 2012 #12

I've honestly never heard of him before this. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #13

You might remeber the one-trick pony show... Dr. Strange Jul 2012 #14

Or Dane Cook. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #16

Bingo! obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #32

Whiskey ta- aw fuck it, what a fuckwad (Tosh, not the woman) Taverner Jul 2012 #10

Guy seems like a serious ass. It is possible to be edgy and shocking w/o being mean and hurtful Warren DeMontague Jul 2012 #28

That's a good point obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #33

I'm locking this thread because it has veered away from a safe haven discussion Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #35