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Originally Posted by humndislocation
I don't think it makes a difference if the actual story isn't true, it's the sentiment behind what he's saying that we're complaining about.
The actual story isn't serious, but the sentiment behind it is.
Even if he's just saying what people want to hear, for commercial gain, and doesn't actually believe it, I don't think that makes him much better than if he actually believed it.
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Aft fair do's he's a tit, so are the majority of his audience, even if he is bamming folk up. I actually believe that he's just try to evoke a response though, so that his 'controversial' status goes through the roof and he gets more airtime. You are right though, that doesn't make it right, however he's hardly an exception, there are numerous examples of similar occurrences (especially within comedy) which I'm sure most people are aware of, and I've heard very very little, particularly on this site, of any responses quite like the ones in this thread.
I'm also under the impression the
one person who is actually a fan of his 'work' (who has posted on this thread that is, not globally) has said he is not actually racist (I'd like to see how not but I'm not incredibly interested in being bored for an hour). The point being I HAVENT seen enough his comedy to make such judgements and I doubt the more frequent posters on this thread have either. But we're all snappy with the judgements when we're behind a keyboard so I will not deny probably being wrong, if I wasn't I'm sure I would never be told the truth, I am questioning peoples honesty over the net I apologise.
Also, back to an earleir point, your right big HD, no-one questioned his right to say what he has/does, and I merely probably did create an argument for nothing. I'm not terribly sorry about this, for what I said isn't untrue, and it does relate to the topic of the thread. As far as I'm aware that's not against any rules within UGS, merely looking at thing from a different perspective, rather than this man should die for what he says.
And Scruffy my humblest critic (so few words to explain your aggravations, I hope I deal with them appropriately). I'll try to explain fully my comments cherishing pin pointing your main area's of concern.
The situation that he claims occurred is so ridiculous that I believe that both participants would have to be extremely drunk for it to have actually occurred. Apologies if the mass confusion caused you to be upset in anyway or form.
I'm quite aware that Freedom of Speech is a Human Right generally speaking, yet I decided to be a tiny bit satirical/sarcastic/bastard-esque over the fact that America has decidedly written it's own 'Bill of Rights', (this may not be the correct name for the document mentioned, sorry if this causes yet another uproar due to the apparently
stupid things that I say on this site) that actually states American's as a people have the right to freedom of speech, fair enough, I just wanted to point this out in a way that I myself found amusing at the time.
Please feel free to point out any further discreprencies with my posts, I look forward to being able to get people worked up over the internet as soon as humanly possible.