Treblaine said:
Ughhh, over-reaction to political correctness is ANOTHER straw man argument. How about you face up to what I actually challenge you about rather than retreating back to broad generalisation and then pick a more defensible, but unrelated point.
There is a huge difference between being Politically Incorrect and Vile Bigotry like homophobic insults.
It is a playful insult to you because you are an uncaring selfish fool who does not know, does not want to know, and ultimately does not care about the very real harm they are causing and how much they are emboldening and enabling hateful and violent bigots. The bullies, oh they fucking laugh, it's a joke to them, it really is an utterly psychotic and sociopathic mindset that simply because they can see the funny side then everyone should.
Fucksake. You make them the butt of your jokes and expect them to laugh along. You bully!
You fucking bully!
Your video jokes about being offended doesn't hurt anyone. What about all the teenagers and young men who are driven to vagrancy or suicide by homophobic bullying and ostracism? Lives of isolation and secrecy.
Are you totally indifferent to the harm you cause? Are you wilfully ignorant? Do you simply NOT GIVE A FUCK who you hurt? Even if you don't directly tell them to hang themselves you encourage the worst bullies to go that one step further and push away from you friends who may want your support.
Indifference.
This comedian you show to me, teased the public for being indifferent and ignoring the homeless. You ignore the suicides. You don't want to even think about it, what part you play in their desperation to choose death over living in a world with people like YOU in it.
God damn son.. You got a lot of tension in those shoulders.
Lets break this shit down.
What am I backing down from? Now, I could be missing something here but I think you want me to argue you calling me being a bigot? You can call me whatever you want, in the end I don't really care what you, someone I'll never meet, thinks. I know who I am and how I think and my friends and family agree.
Its a playful insult to me because well... It is. I don't mean any harm when I call my straight friends gay, and they don't take offence to it, nobody gets hurt and we all have a laugh. I cop it as much as I dish it out. Now, if I went around screaming "you're such a ******!!" to one of my gay friends, you might have an argument and you would have pretty good reason to call me a bully. But I don't, instead I hang out with my friends and say things like this.
Me: I'm thinking of going vegetarian.
Friend: Hah! Do you want some dick with your salad?
Me: No, because I wouldn't eat meat.
And we all laughed.
Also, swearing and pressing enter doesn't help get your point across any better.
Doesn't fucking help.
It isn't really fair to compare me to the same people who drove the teenagers to suicide. Those people are the real bullies, and your steaming hatred is better directed at them then at me. If I said something to a friend and it hurt them I would apologise and not say it again, I keep my 'bad taste' jokes to myself unless I've known someone for awhile and I don't say any harsh swear words in front of strangers.
Call me a bully all you want, but I'm just a dude who likes to joke around.
Fucking joke around.
