Please read this as neutrally as possible, im not trying to preach(well at one point, yes maybe i was, but only after i felt as though, i was talking to a wall, or rather just Tiberius) or force my view upon you as much as just compare our opinions with discussion, i just wanted a honest conversation on the matter. If you take time to just sit down and think about it, its rude to make comments towards someone like that, you could harm someone. That was my view on it, i dont like to see people harmed, i myself found it offensive, though maybe not to the same degree as someone closer to the event might of felt. Was it enough to make me unsubscribe? well no, actually i went on later that night and watched a few more videos lol. And looking at it from a purely business aspect, i dont think its smart to throw out bad jokes at someones expense, this could harm sales, and the reputation, similar to why Russel Brand was dismissed from the event. Making those comments when they werent wanted or when people were caught off guard by it was what i think is wrong, people dont watch the Yogscast videos because they were hoping to hear some 9/11 jokes, quite the contrary, i was hoping to see how badly they failed playing simple games like minecraft.
I tried to throw multiple analogies to show several sides to the story,as to get every angle to show that we all know the social boundaries, and we just dont cross them simply out of respect towards one another. There was no attempt at racism, that was not the case whatsoever, it was to do nothing more than have multiple concepts of the matter in hopes that one of the many might apply towards you simply because you can relate to the situation i spoke of.
I tried to show cause as to why people might feel the same way i did over the matter, using things such as other past events, or geographical location, however i think this was also overlooked in the wake of slander.
I hoped that more discussion similar to what Tennenoth stated would come out of it, or even Angantyr, though instead i was met with simple one liners, one after another, people essentially just begging for approval from the community because they could not stand out and just form their own opinion with thought. Im not asking to bring down the Man! or rather two brits, with this post, if that was the case, id be spamming mails to Kotaku, or other gaming media sources, instead i was asking for thoughtful opinions from other individuals, related happenings with personal story, or an opinion on how you viewed the joke. Idk about you, but i feel like everyone always reads a post angrily, like as if every post made is done with inward angled eyebrows and a evil laugh, lol, idk why we do this, even my initial post was just a neutral statement, i just dont think it was taken that away.
To answer your post on a closer level Christo, i simply was just a few years away from starting the Fire Academy, all my training, all the people who spoke to us, all the extra levels of security measures, and random other crap i had to endure because of it left an everlasting taste in my mouth about the event. Not to mention how this effected my family being in the same career paths as i now, i watched them go through the same things i would later endure myself. This continued into other careers that furthered my patriotic views towards my country, and my willing to want to shield or not let others be harmed, its simply what i do for a living, i dont like seeing people harmed, i try and help them. Maybe this psychologically was an opinion built by nothing more than propaganda and brainwashing from training, but throwing a joke about something like that, though i said before, was light in some respects, is a bad joke none the less, and was only on a derailment to cause harm from the minute it was spoken. So why speak it? btw Christo, i do read books as well, actually im currently just starting "The things they carried" by Tim O'Brien, my gf picked it up for me.
Anyways the last probably two pages is me attempting to convince Kafein how those were analogies and not racist comments, idk what the hell happened there and trying to fight off the never wrong Xant, guys an animal, he never just simply stops, that shit would have lasted another 5 pages just from Xant alone, nothing personal Xant, but we all know its true.
