It's nice to know that some here are always ready to defend hate. It happened w/the Mel Gibson thing..."Why don't the Jews just get over it?" mentality. And it's happening here w/this matter. You only get offended when someone wants to ban praying in school or handing out Jesus dolls. Ironic I think.
Have a nice day!
We should accept the fact that the word is an offensive epithet. Perhaps then it wouldn't be popping out of people's mouths.
How much criticism did Rev. Jackson get from the black community for calling New York Hymietown? Do you find that more or less offensive than the garbage that Kramer was spewing?
Ahhh Bull.. I don't think anyone is defending "hate"... maybe some defending his right to defend himself if that be the case of hateful heckling... maybe some defending his right to blotch up and not be funny at all..
I went to a comedy club years ago (and only once, at a friends request)... it was so vulgar that I never went back... we are talking about a den of vulgarity so thick it physically repulsed me. People that frequent that sort of establishment expect that "smut" it seems. You claim to have never been personally called such words yourself, and I believe you are telling the truth. Unfortunately, anyone that has played an outside (any/all come) basketball game knows that just is not the norm in todays sick society. In the name of humor or whatever... the names that are spouted out are not in the church hymn whatsoever.... ever filled up you gas tank next to the jerks (usually black artist) blaring rap music at the 115 db...
Sometimes in this world what we see is very ugly... This K fellow is definately in that catagory. Unfortunately people buy into that sort of stuff. Maybe they think it is grown up instead of juvenile, maybe that is what home life is for them? I don't understand it to be honest. The other week on FR someone posted a thread of two black youth fighting while a crowd (and probable family) egged them on very vugarly. Sickening IMHO... but that is life out there unfortunately. This is a lost world for most people and Jesus's light does not shine on many a people.
Locally a few years ago, some nutso klan fellows and their families had the bright idea of having a picnic in the park dressed in full white gear. Basically a spit in the black communities face... but it developed into something even worse...
A crowd of unruley blacks gathered at the park and started vulgarly taunting them instead of letting the nuts just be nuts. One of the blacks pulled out a gun and mowed down one of the klan fellows right there in plain sight and wounded another younger family member. Were they justified in doing so? No, of course not, as much insult as the klan did, they still have a right to be nuts and freedom of speech.
Now we as a town have to endure the Klan coming to town every year to protest this stupid act and murder. What is next, shooting Freepers that dare protest equally sensitive subjects that some deem as offensive?
All in all, I don't think anyone here on FR is defending hate. I personally don't like to put myself in the position of being in such a arena of venom as comedy shows do. They gravitate to the lowest common denominator as it is. It is not politically correct to defend yourself against Blacks in society as it is...
Whites are afraid to disagree with Blacks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664638/posts
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Also someone previous asked for a link the C-span fellow that advocated all whites be killed...
Black man advocates [final] "solution" for white people on c-span
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502842/posts
When you are being heckled about being a bad comedian, you respond to the heckler as a man, not as a black man, unless you are a racist who believes that black men are not allowed to have opinions about white comedians. To bring lynching into it, not just epithats, was horrible. The heckler's response, "that's uncalled for", seems measured, and his tone remained calm throughout most of it, compared to Richards', who sounded like a lunatic.
Too bad. I love the Kramer character in that show. It will be hard to separate him from his disgusting real world person from here on.