Corvus Metus
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To be fair, there's self-expression and and then there's being an asshole. It's a line some people cross...
If I made made a joke about r*pe, someone got offended, and I suggested they didn't find it funny because they got raped... I'd be an asshole. I'd have a right to be an asshole... But other people would have a right to call me asshole too. And if I made my living based on telling jokes, if I offended enough people, that could hurt me.
If I could no longer get shows in comedy clubs, should I blame political correctness? Or myself for taking a joke too far? As I said, I believe in complete freedom of speech. At the same time, there's consequences to the things you say and do.
I mean there's a lot of ways to be subversive to society without being a dick and there's ways to combat political correctness without crossing the line into being an asshole.
If I made made a joke about r*pe, someone got offended, and I suggested they didn't find it funny because they got raped... I'd be an asshole. I'd have a right to be an asshole... But other people would have a right to call me asshole too. And if I made my living based on telling jokes, if I offended enough people, that could hurt me.
If I could no longer get shows in comedy clubs, should I blame political correctness? Or myself for taking a joke too far? As I said, I believe in complete freedom of speech. At the same time, there's consequences to the things you say and do.
I mean there's a lot of ways to be subversive to society without being a dick and there's ways to combat political correctness without crossing the line into being an asshole.