It is a fucked up view because you think saying "friend" to black people is offensive because you are white (I assume) and they are black. If that's not racist, I don't know what is.
Exactly, Hugo Boss people threw him out by fear it would hurt the company because some random people would be offended, not because they were offended themselves. They reacted like a business taking into account the irrationality of people, and the power of those people to affect their sales, not because it was immoral to make those jokes or because they wanted to punish the comedian.
Oh ok, so now there is a line drawn, something offensive cannot be racist, because the two are separate entities. So being prejudice is not offensive, because they are two different words, therefore their meanings are different, and cannot intertwine.
Who is to say they were not offended, they were speaking as a company and not as an individual. So only extremists now are offended? k, lets not bother discussing this anymore, idk how racism is even involved, your taking view points out of context and slandering them for who knows what reason to push some sort of view that im racist for who knows what reason. They are analogies.....
I'm not sure what this is about anymore. Antiblitz, people get offended. This is known by all. They are stupid to get offended, however, and everything will offend someone. Some people are straight out professional getting-offended-ers. So what or who dictates which things should be censored? The amount of people getting offended? Quantity over quality thinking? If so, why? If not, why? It's the same discussion as with religions. Pure bullshit political correctness, nothing to do with what is 'right'.
Setting all that aside, intent is what should be the most important factor, not the words themselves. If someone calls their friend a friend, their tone and intent are important, not the word itself. Same with everything else. Clearly Yogscast's intent here was not to try and insult Americans, so if you get offended over what they said... you need to do some thinking and become a better human being.
Yes if i walked up to my friend who is black and just called him the N word, making it as neutral as possible, or even using the word in a joke format, i dont think he would appreciate it, he might find it offensive. Knowing that certain cultures deem things off limits to them because they are offensive doesnt mean its ok to use them because everyone else thinks its a fucking joke.
im not asking for censorship like this is fucking Communist China, im merely stating that maybe people should think about their audience when speaking about them, its fucking courtesy. Its a known fact that someone will always get offended when someone is making jokes about something, however, these are to be expected when you make generic jokes about car crashes, rape, assault, environmental catastrophes, etc. and its easier to make the jokes when you yourself have been apart of them, similar as to why most comedians use things that occur in their life as entertainment for the mass, as this is an attempt at laughing at me, not you. All ive been attempting to do for 4 pages is try different angles to maybe even break through to someone as to how this is offensive. But in the end it doesnt matter, Europeans views on the matter are pretty shit really. So hoping for death and destruction upon the Europeans is the only next Just course of action, maybe once thousands die in a foreign western european nation, will i create a thread taunting them, and telling them to get over it, as its not offensive.
Anyways, dont think much more discussion can occur than this, i cant convince Kafein because idk what the hell he is talking about, and well Xant nothing can get past your Finnish Walls, nothing can conquer the emotionless, sky high walls you have seemed to build, you are the envy of all man.
