Why does it matter when people get offended? Well, he did mention political correctness - which in many cases constitutes not reinforcing prejudice. 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words never hurt me' is fine and dandy - until you pay attention to reality, where words often lead to the sticks and stones.
I get the argument about not overly sanitized speech, but people who talk as if there's no problem at all with things people say aren't helping -it's a simplistic backlash.
So I should harden up (from a person who overreacted to a different view) and stop being a dick (from someone who actually posted a dick reply over nothing) . . . that comment made me lol :)
@beauxq that sounds like people being offended by insults or prejudice bring violence upon themselves by reacting badly to it, which is rather an odd idea.
Prejudice and violence that follows is clearly not founded in some sudden sense of offence conjured out of thin air: such things live in demagoguery and incitement.
@beauxq indeed not - although whereas you'd rightly expect insults and ingrained prejudice to elicit a negative reaction, the excuses for prejudice itself are usually rather weak.
@ZdPhoenix No, I would not expect a negative reaction. And the fact that you expect a negative reaction is exactly what the problem is. Stop expecting a negative reaction. You're causing the violence by expecting that.
@beauxq the problems with ingrained racism, homophobia, sexism(etc) have never been that people suddenly became enraged because those groups don't laugh along, Oppression wasn't invented by an attitude of victimisation, the attitude was invented by them actually being victims of true awful treatment and the odd crime against humanity. Any idea contrary is plainly ridiculous . . . it would seem to have been trolled here. Touché sir.
@beauxq I'm really sorry if you were genuinely making that point, but it's just so bizarre it's hard to believe, or know what to say to. That sort of apologist position for racism and xenophobia and the like is pretty rare to come across in a non comment trolling form, and that particular line of argument is new to me.
I'm not sure there's anything to say other than 'wow' and leave you to it.
@EndlessWaltzTV I played that one during a power point on free speech in front of a room full of people at college, dead silence, and then asked if anyone wanted to comment on what they thought, not one person raised there hand, amazing
taking offense is an intellectual cop-out. if your only recourse when someone does or says something that you find reprehensible is to throw your arms up in a gesture of futile moral outrage, it's because you haven't even been bothered to reasonably consider your own and others' attitudes, and so you're incapable of reasoned argument or refutation. controversy is the discourse of a diminishing society
We've all heard this: "My TV licence fee doesn't pay for this tripe!" ..well you should have thought about that before you bought a T.V.
It's not like there's a law saying you have to buy one, man. Don't think you're in a position to lecture everyone because you're willing to spend hundreds of pounds on something you know nothing about.
You think I can control the whole world by complaining about the X Factor? No, I toughen up. I put up with that 'talent', try putting up with others', please?
Steve, if your reading this please please please talk about the utter bastard of 'social-networking' :) you know what I'm taking about... I'm going to be a fan of yours for years to come so no rush...
I know your not a joke-fruit-machine "put a quarter in his ass and push A12" :) but we all love you for the way you machete through the BS with wit & wisdom, rock on Mr Hughes!
he brings it up right. Political correctness has turned into a weapon that right wing wackos use to insult people who are not racists,homophobes or a womanhater.
@markarkrkk or to business entities complaining about being subordinate to human beings, as intended in our consumer economy... you ~are~ sending it, no?
@RasrapSmurf You're missing the point. It is said, "You can't please all of the people all of the time." If one must censor oneself in the vain attempt never to offend anyone, then why bother?.
It is only through criticism that ideas are challenged, and all ideas must be challenged, from every possible angle, at all times. The strong ones survive and are made stronger for the attack, while the weak ones die off. Nothing is exempt.
@RasrapSmurf Many people deserve to be offended... particularly and especially those who think they have the right never to be offended. Fortunately, no Constitution affords anyone that right, just yet.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," is a concept that is basically lost in this day and age, having been replaced with, "You can't say that! If you say that, I'll sue you!"
@MoriyaMug I find it sadder that people find ways to justify intentionally making other people's lives more miserable, than I find the fact that some people are offended by things that aren't offensive.
@ionfalcom Well then you were lucky that whatever happened to you happened. But then, you're an example of why it's not a good idea to have the attitude of 'well they deserve it for being so weak' because obviously with support etc (and whatever happened to you) can make them stronger. Some people would react and say 'yeah fuck it' to being told to shut the fuck up, other people would go the opposite way and just kill themselves. Some people wouldn't react at all. Everyone's different.
There's a difference isn't there. He isn't talking someone taking the piss out of a dead relative or even directly abusing someone. It's people looking into statements and trying to find something to be offended about and also people that are being offended for other people.
@LukeGriffths121 in the clip he's categorically saying no one ever has a right to be offended. if he was just targeting people that 'make up' that their offended then it wouldn't be much of a point would it
@yeastcapp You're wrong. He's saying everyone has a right to be offended, but if you are, shut the fuck up about it. It's only words, it doesn't hurt, it's just funny. And in the case of cyber bullying / bullying = So what? Like Steve said "don't worry about them, their dicks".
@yeastcapp They're weak shits. I've been bullied tonnes for being different, foreign, and just generally not 'normal'. Do I care? No. I know there are millions out there worse off than myself, so i stroll through life not giving a damn what people say towards me. I know i'm essentially a good person, but if I do say soemthing nasty to someone, they should shrug it off. Morons who go and self-harm / QQ "That person at school said something nasty" - Fuck off, you deserve it if you're so weak.
@DKOPness Whoaaaa this is a bit too far. I agree, people get so offended by ridiculous things, and it's annoying, but telling someone who gets bullied constantly to get over it, and they deserve it if they let it get to them is just ignorent. It isn't that easy. Not everyone is as strong as clearly you are, but that's no reason to redicule them for not being strong. I thought you said you were essentially a good person? It's doesn't seem like it to me. Or maybe you are just ignorent.
@MRMATRONIC If you are pissed off, then something offends you.
But hey, why should you care of In first place? Just vent your anger on the first stranger you find on the Internet and move on. Let em call you a sissy, carebear and other negative adjectives.
@MRMATRONIC Unless you're being beaten up everyday you should shut the fuck up moaning about it and ignore what people say. You can only be offended if you choose to be.
@Derbensteiger Not true. You're only looking at it from your own perspective. It's not that easy to just ignore it. I was bullied every day, not beaten up, but it was still constant and impossible to 'just ignore it'. The only reason I was able to get over it was cause I happened to have friends, but try telling someone who hasn't got friends and gets bullied constantly to get over it. It's more likely they'll probably just go home and hang themselves.
This is bullshit. It is easy not to be offended as a straight white male. Words can inflict pain that runs a lot deeper than physical harm. This will continue to be the case even as comedians giddily dismiss the massive power language has, and the responsibility that comes with it.
@LukeGriffths121 Where do you stand on this issue, Luke? Words can never hurt you or everyone can be offended sometimes? Straight white males (like me) are highly culturally privileged and get an easier ride for sure.
@yeastcapp Firstly, people are offended by virtually harmless and benign statements now and I am with this guy on the fact that being offended is like a culture now and seems to dominate the media and people's lives, it's just fucking stupid. I never said words never hurt anyone did I? You're putting words in my mouth. Secondly, if you believe that this guys statements are totally wrong then you cannot exclude certain groups of people which is what you just did. What if someone is offended by
@yeastcapp your statement. What if a white straight male is a very religious man? Can he not be offended by attacks against his religion? You're a moron. I think sometimes people should be offended and I don't believe people should purposely try to be offensive towards other people but it's got to a stage now where it is beyond ridiculous.
I think people are taking this too seriously in their support of this message - he is a comedian making a JOKE! I'm sure if Steve Hughes' dad died or his daughter was raped he wouldn't appreciate me turning it into a punch line.
@notfound85 240p, and wrong aspect ratio too. Ah well, at least we can hear clearly what he's saying, which is more tan can be said for the Finnish set.
To put things into perspective, nothing is offensive until it happens to you. You can say that you can choose to not be offended all day and all night for the rest of your life, but you're lying to yourself if you think you have been exempt from being offended. Yes, you don't have to be vocal about it but if you're not vocal about being offended, people will keep offending you and you will be their doormat. Although this comedian is funny, there are ways to be funny w/out offending.
@Blissss09 I guess it can depend on the extremity of the event that happened to you. If you've gone through a break up, you can still find it funny if someone mocks it... hopefully. But yeh really serious bad stuff like rape seems to be funny for everyone else that is hasn't happened to x
Man, I am not trying to make anyone do anything and I have already explained and apologised for the fact that I very stupidly brought up the point here after the whole Gervais "mong" argument. Please don't act like you know me or anything about me because I am not doing that with you, even though you're insulting me. Just chill out and agree that we clearly believe two different things, that's that. That SirToshley dude seemed amiable enough, and he actually had more of a right to be pissed off.
You just did it. "It would be more worthwhile to read a book, hey read this!" I take that as trying to push something on me. Believe what works for you, but let it be questioned.
I don't have a stake in anything before I replied, doesn't matter to me. You're not being presumptuous although you claim I believe something, though you obviously can't tell what? PC to me is something that is delivered through the establishment and conformed to, instead of people doing it out of sincerity, that's all
@TheKingofBastards Even if that was to be the case, that people conform to PC, not out of sincerity, isn't that an okay thing? Surely it's better that people don't offend one another out of trying to be polite rather than offending one another? There are still enough horrific cases of people suffering because of such things as race,disability etc. that I think that PC is a good thing.
And I wasn't meaning you to read anything. It's just they are much more eloquent/interesting than this exchange.
No, it isn't, and that should be obvious. A superficial change in language will do nothing but give less obvious excuses for people to victimize themselves over.
Since you can't shut the fuck up about how boring and how uninteresting and how meaningless this exchange is (despite the fact that you won't do the rational thing and say nothing if you really feel that way), I'm going to point out that it undermines any values you may hold about language or humanity, now fuck off.
I can get why people think this is funny, but to utilise what he's saying as if it has any actual thought or relevance past humour is just bullshit. But to be fair, that big Michael Mcintyre sign behind didn't exactly make me hold my breath and wait for anything profound...
@ivebeeneatingforyouu But it does though, if people took those words that they find offensive, and stopped being offended by them, they wouldn't be offensive, and would no longer have to bring negativity to the scene because they were offended. They would also now have a spine, and humanity would be ever so slightly better.
@SirToshley You're kind of burdening the recepient with all the responsibility. Racism, fx., doesn't go away, if people just stopped being offended by racial slurs and racist sentiment.
What we say doesn't exist in a vacuum. We have the right and the freedom to offend each other, but we also shouldn't act like dickheads, twats and idiots just for the sake of acting like dickheads, twats and idiots. Nor should we just ignore people, when they say hateful shit. That's as good as condoning it.
@ivebeeneatingforyouu I know what you mean, and do agree for the most part. I do however think that it is easier to choose not to offend than it is for certain people to choose whether or not something offends them. (Sorry, very clumsily worded). Although, reading back my comment I was a little angry and venting spleen about this whole Ricky Gervais "mong" thing. Stupid and a little irrelevant of me, I know, to bring up a point about something else and post it here.
@TheKingofBastards Not in all circumstances. And not "how they act": i said "choose not to offend". I'm not saying anything about censorship either. People can say whatever they want, I'm just saying that if people joke about certain subjects, e.g. the disabled, rape etc. without there being any meaning or thought behind the joke then to me, I don't think it's a joke worth making. But like I said, I wasn't really directing my first comment at this guy, was just a little drunk, so I apologise.
Actually you can't choose not to offend someone. Moreover that's onesided. I have to understand somebody well enough to not offend (nevermind the fact that they might not even deserve that kind of understanding), but they are in no way responsible to have the understanding required not to get offended in the first place?
@TheKingofBastards I didn't really understand much of that. But I can't really be bothered arguing - like I said, this isn't really an appropriate platform for any interesting discussion. From you or me; to anyone.
Why, because it's riddled with inhumanity and overblown egos (your own compels you to make such a sad statement as that)? Guess what, that's everywhere else in the world.
@TheKingofBastards Dude, what on earth are you talking about? I'm just saying I have enough respect for the both of us, and for most other people who would see this, to assume that people don't need some shitty youtube argument to make their minds up about something so important as offensiveness in comedy. It'd be much more worthwhile to just read a book. Edward Stourton's 'It's a PC World' is pretty simple and coherent on the matter. As is basically anything by Lee/Herring.
If you had respect for anybody at all you wouldn't have spoken up in the first place. Which is it then? An interesting discussion not suited for this medium (as if that means anything at all) or a shitty youtube argument? You want people to make up their own mind but you want me to read what you tell me to? You're so full of shit you can't make heads or tails of anything.
sticks and stones was ruined when rihanna wrote that song
rgjmce666 1 week ago
You can't give offense; you can only take offense.
Laeiryn 1 week ago 2
shitredditsays
numberthirtyeight 2 weeks ago
Why does it matter when people get offended? Well, he did mention political correctness - which in many cases constitutes not reinforcing prejudice. 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words never hurt me' is fine and dandy - until you pay attention to reality, where words often lead to the sticks and stones.
I get the argument about not overly sanitized speech, but people who talk as if there's no problem at all with things people say aren't helping -it's a simplistic backlash.
ZdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
@ZdPhoenix you should harden the fuck up and not be a dick
Bakery994 2 weeks ago
So I should harden up (from a person who overreacted to a different view) and stop being a dick (from someone who actually posted a dick reply over nothing) . . . that comment made me lol :)
ZdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
@ZdPhoenix Words don't lead to sticks and stones. People choosing to be offended by the words leads to sticks and stones.
beauxq 2 weeks ago
@beauxq that sounds like people being offended by insults or prejudice bring violence upon themselves by reacting badly to it, which is rather an odd idea.
Prejudice and violence that follows is clearly not founded in some sudden sense of offence conjured out of thin air: such things live in demagoguery and incitement.
ZdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
@ZdPhoenix Because those aren't conjured out of thin air, right?
beauxq 2 weeks ago
@beauxq indeed not - although whereas you'd rightly expect insults and ingrained prejudice to elicit a negative reaction, the excuses for prejudice itself are usually rather weak.
ZdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
@ZdPhoenix No, I would not expect a negative reaction. And the fact that you expect a negative reaction is exactly what the problem is. Stop expecting a negative reaction. You're causing the violence by expecting that.
beauxq 2 weeks ago
@beauxq the problems with ingrained racism, homophobia, sexism(etc) have never been that people suddenly became enraged because those groups don't laugh along, Oppression wasn't invented by an attitude of victimisation, the attitude was invented by them actually being victims of true awful treatment and the odd crime against humanity. Any idea contrary is plainly ridiculous . . . it would seem to have been trolled here. Touché sir.
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@ZdPhoenix "Any idea contrary is plainly ridiculous" - You really consider that statement to have some value, don't you...
And is that ridicule going to lead to sticks and stones?
beauxq 2 weeks ago
@beauxq I'm really sorry if you were genuinely making that point, but it's just so bizarre it's hard to believe, or know what to say to. That sort of apologist position for racism and xenophobia and the like is pretty rare to come across in a non comment trolling form, and that particular line of argument is new to me.
I'm not sure there's anything to say other than 'wow' and leave you to it.
ZdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
@ZdPhoenix People rejecting an idea just because it's new or bizarre is one of the biggest problems in the world today.
beauxq 2 weeks ago
i like this guy
JaCkMiChEaLs0n 3 weeks ago
Bumchugging
wrenchyification 3 weeks ago
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I was offended, until I took an arrow to the knee.
bronzeguy 3 weeks ago
@bronzeguy This unfunny joke offends me.
dashunderscoredash 3 weeks ago 2
I'm offended and I find this leprosy.
Tehadamlulz 4 weeks ago 4
I'm offended that all you fuckers are offended that people are offended by a man offended by those who are offended!
Chubzdoomer 1 month ago
@stupidjunk978 im offended you bastard
Davidicus400 1 month ago
Nice video.
kitsumekat 1 month ago
@Ebvardh Your an adult.....deal with it.
zachnika1205 1 month ago 6
people who get offended should be sent to gas chambers.
BreastsNaked 1 month ago
@BreastsNaked wow..... thats offensive mate...
CBMaster2 1 month ago
If you guys enjoyed this then search, [Offended by the "N word"]... It's from Louis CK
EndlessWaltzTV 1 month ago
@EndlessWaltzTV I played that one during a power point on free speech in front of a room full of people at college, dead silence, and then asked if anyone wanted to comment on what they thought, not one person raised there hand, amazing
VLOGSPHERE 1 month ago
I'm in a boy band composed entirely out of leprous members and I find this quite offensive.
Ebvardh 1 month ago
Awesome
dubdefuje 1 month ago
Lol, yeah i'm gay when my friend called me a faggot i said "excuse me sir, we prefer the term 'ass pirates'"
beastlaxkid 1 month ago 36
@beastlaxkid Bum Chum is my personal favorite..
mabans 3 weeks ago
He's a very smart, observational man. Aussie pride =D
PhantomUmbie123 1 month ago 4
I was offended today when my so called 'friend' decided he had to the right to spark MY joint!
WeirdoWannabe 1 month ago
I watched this and got leprosy.
alexicon89 1 month ago
@alexicon89 That offends me.
OH SHI-
Katingaan 1 month ago
I'd like to see this guy walk into a Holocaust museum and do the Nazi salute
albusfr 1 month ago
I am easily offended, and I'm SO OFFENDED!!
BadassRandomness 1 month ago
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taking offense is an intellectual cop-out. if your only recourse when someone does or says something that you find reprehensible is to throw your arms up in a gesture of futile moral outrage, it's because you haven't even been bothered to reasonably consider your own and others' attitudes, and so you're incapable of reasoned argument or refutation. controversy is the discourse of a diminishing society
iamnotanumberiamaman 1 month ago
Offense is taken not given
teanotwar 1 month ago 9
We've all heard this: "My TV licence fee doesn't pay for this tripe!" ..well you should have thought about that before you bought a T.V.
It's not like there's a law saying you have to buy one, man. Don't think you're in a position to lecture everyone because you're willing to spend hundreds of pounds on something you know nothing about.
You think I can control the whole world by complaining about the X Factor? No, I toughen up. I put up with that 'talent', try putting up with others', please?
JamesTheFox 1 month ago
People who get offended offend me
Necrosis527 1 month ago
@Necrosis527 You offend yourself.
WASDsweden 1 month ago
@WASDsweden Hm, didn't think of that
Necrosis527 1 month ago
Show to League of Legends Tribunal pls.
Myounage 1 month ago 12
someone explain to me how you can dislike this
Testostrone250 1 month ago
^This.
FelixMorodoudt 2 months ago
lol fuck all of yall pussies life's a game dont be the reason ppl want to quit
brandonshanexox 2 months ago
patrice Evra needs to watch this!
steveLIVERPOOL2389 2 months ago
Awesome video.
darkdaegurth 2 months ago
great video.
dkthg 2 months ago
81 people got offended ...
Alibm80 2 months ago
Bill Hicks, is that you ? i knew you'd come back
AverageJ0emusic 2 months ago
@AverageJ0emusic I love them both, but they're quite different. Hicks was notoriously left wing, while Hughes is a libertarian.
hayesism 2 months ago
@hayesism
I think they toe the same line when it comes to political correctness though :P
InnuendoXP 1 month ago
@InnuendoXP Agreed. Boy bands, too. :P
hayesism 1 month ago
nigger
Aerosion 2 months ago
Dat white privilege
KiloGoldStacks 2 months ago 2
@KiloGoldStacks What?
MrCherubhair1 2 months ago
reminds me of george...may he rip :3
wolfie965 2 months ago
81 people were offended.
oatmeals 2 months ago
Steve, if your reading this please please please talk about the utter bastard of 'social-networking' :) you know what I'm taking about... I'm going to be a fan of yours for years to come so no rush...
I know your not a joke-fruit-machine "put a quarter in his ass and push A12" :) but we all love you for the way you machete through the BS with wit & wisdom, rock on Mr Hughes!
pcvideogamer 2 months ago
same exact voice as obrian in star trek.
tekkenjam 2 months ago
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tekkenjam 2 months ago
This is awesome. Too many people are too easily offended.
TalonRG 2 months ago
boy bends
fuclcjewtube 2 months ago
I love his last name
BBzxHUGHESx 2 months ago
Steve, I'm a married woman but I must say that I LOVE YOU. I've been saying the same shit for years. Eff em. Be offended!! That's just awesome!!
Move over Howie and Gallagher. I've found your replacement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AL92660 2 months ago
I have leprosy and I am offended.
Spinner891 2 months ago 171
@Spinner891 so what be offended nothing happens
chrisparktwittertwat 2 months ago
@Spinner891
Then you can be offended XD
Doomtrain55 1 month ago
this bloke make sense
greenday12511 2 months ago
He reminds me of a much younger and less articulate (and of course much more alive) George Carlin. :)
DanteForever20XX 2 months ago
It's funny 'cause it's true.
KittiehBoi 2 months ago
He's hilarious, and spot on! :D
grimTales1 2 months ago
he brings it up right. Political correctness has turned into a weapon that right wing wackos use to insult people who are not racists,homophobes or a womanhater.
Rapatz100 2 months ago 3
Gotta love steve's take on matters... whole heartily agree with this stance on police state. World govenment
oRayUKo 2 months ago
Racism is excluded from the video..
rob91Harvey 2 months ago
send this video to the Unions complaining about clarkson...
markarkrkk 2 months ago 70
@markarkrkk Yeah it is just PERFECT!!
Glenmead 2 months ago
@markarkrkk or to business entities complaining about being subordinate to human beings, as intended in our consumer economy... you ~are~ sending it, no?
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This is shit. and boring.
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@TeifiValley123 You... are stupid.
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@TeifiValley123 YOU are BORING
Glenmead 2 months ago
^^^^^^ this video teaches the intertubes on the topic of dealing with trolls.
POTATOATTACK 2 months ago
I'm offensively offended by offensive offenders offending the unoffended offenders.
Stevelogical 2 months ago
@Stevelogical offended-ception
Idrinkyourmilkshake6 2 months ago
when people tell me that ive offended them
i tell them to do the only thing they cam about
whine
coltsrule5150 3 months ago
@RasrapSmurf You're missing the point. It is said, "You can't please all of the people all of the time." If one must censor oneself in the vain attempt never to offend anyone, then why bother?.
It is only through criticism that ideas are challenged, and all ideas must be challenged, from every possible angle, at all times. The strong ones survive and are made stronger for the attack, while the weak ones die off. Nothing is exempt.
And hey, if that offends you... tough.
MoriyaMug 3 months ago
I'm offended and i find this offensive.
Thingamajigs 3 months ago 4
JESUS CHRIST!
mrhenk007 3 months ago
THIS IS SCARY HOW MUCH THIS MAN AND I THINK ALIKE. Even down to the look.
JSXS217 3 months ago
Truth. Just plain truth
MadaraXIII 3 months ago
It's kinda sad that people are using videos like this to rationalise being a complete dick for no reason whatsoever.
RasrapSmurf 3 months ago
@RasrapSmurf It's even sadder that people get up in arms over nothing.
MoriyaMug 3 months ago
@MoriyaMug Not really, no
RasrapSmurf 3 months ago
@RasrapSmurf Many people deserve to be offended... particularly and especially those who think they have the right never to be offended. Fortunately, no Constitution affords anyone that right, just yet.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," is a concept that is basically lost in this day and age, having been replaced with, "You can't say that! If you say that, I'll sue you!"
Screw political correctness.
MoriyaMug 3 months ago
@MoriyaMug I find it sadder that people find ways to justify intentionally making other people's lives more miserable, than I find the fact that some people are offended by things that aren't offensive.
RasrapSmurf 3 months ago
@RasrapSmurf You're an idiot, it has nothing to do with going around and being a dick....you dick.
MosbeckSB 3 months ago
@MosbeckSB You're hilarious
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this is the typical attitude of those who want to protect hate speech.
dammee 3 months ago
@ionfalcom Well then you were lucky that whatever happened to you happened. But then, you're an example of why it's not a good idea to have the attitude of 'well they deserve it for being so weak' because obviously with support etc (and whatever happened to you) can make them stronger. Some people would react and say 'yeah fuck it' to being told to shut the fuck up, other people would go the opposite way and just kill themselves. Some people wouldn't react at all. Everyone's different.
MRMATRONIC 3 months ago
Fact Is: Even something offends you, you shouldn't care of what will happen to you.
Just move on.
GustavoMsTrashCan 3 months ago
There's a difference isn't there. He isn't talking someone taking the piss out of a dead relative or even directly abusing someone. It's people looking into statements and trying to find something to be offended about and also people that are being offended for other people.
LukeGriffths121 3 months ago
@LukeGriffths121 in the clip he's categorically saying no one ever has a right to be offended. if he was just targeting people that 'make up' that their offended then it wouldn't be much of a point would it
yeastcapp 3 months ago
@yeastcapp You're wrong. He's saying everyone has a right to be offended, but if you are, shut the fuck up about it. It's only words, it doesn't hurt, it's just funny. And in the case of cyber bullying / bullying = So what? Like Steve said "don't worry about them, their dicks".
DKOPness 3 months ago
@DKOPness see carlculliane's comment below
yeastcapp 3 months ago
@yeastcapp They're weak shits. I've been bullied tonnes for being different, foreign, and just generally not 'normal'. Do I care? No. I know there are millions out there worse off than myself, so i stroll through life not giving a damn what people say towards me. I know i'm essentially a good person, but if I do say soemthing nasty to someone, they should shrug it off. Morons who go and self-harm / QQ "That person at school said something nasty" - Fuck off, you deserve it if you're so weak.
DKOPness 3 months ago 2
@DKOPness Whoaaaa this is a bit too far. I agree, people get so offended by ridiculous things, and it's annoying, but telling someone who gets bullied constantly to get over it, and they deserve it if they let it get to them is just ignorent. It isn't that easy. Not everyone is as strong as clearly you are, but that's no reason to redicule them for not being strong. I thought you said you were essentially a good person? It's doesn't seem like it to me. Or maybe you are just ignorent.
MRMATRONIC 3 months ago
@MRMATRONIC you sound like you are offended
this isn't an argument you will win on the comments section of this video!
trisoutlaw86 3 months ago
@trisoutlaw86 I'm not offended, I'm pissed off.
MRMATRONIC 3 months ago
@MRMATRONIC If you are pissed off, then something offends you.
But hey, why should you care of In first place? Just vent your anger on the first stranger you find on the Internet and move on. Let em call you a sissy, carebear and other negative adjectives.
GustavoMsTrashCan 3 months ago
@MRMATRONIC Unless you're being beaten up everyday you should shut the fuck up moaning about it and ignore what people say. You can only be offended if you choose to be.
Derbensteiger 3 months ago
@Derbensteiger Not true. You're only looking at it from your own perspective. It's not that easy to just ignore it. I was bullied every day, not beaten up, but it was still constant and impossible to 'just ignore it'. The only reason I was able to get over it was cause I happened to have friends, but try telling someone who hasn't got friends and gets bullied constantly to get over it. It's more likely they'll probably just go home and hang themselves.
MRMATRONIC 3 months ago
Yes, because marginalisation, bullying and abuse never has any real effect on people's mental health.
carlcullinane 3 months ago
This guy offends me.
mavs2147 3 months ago
This is bullshit. It is easy not to be offended as a straight white male. Words can inflict pain that runs a lot deeper than physical harm. This will continue to be the case even as comedians giddily dismiss the massive power language has, and the responsibility that comes with it.
yeastcapp 3 months ago 2
@yeastcapp As a straight white male, I'm quite offended by your comment.
kaiuycn 3 months ago
@yeastcapp so you can't be offended if you're a white straight male? Shut the fuck up. You're part of the problem.
LukeGriffths121 3 months ago
@LukeGriffths121 Where do you stand on this issue, Luke? Words can never hurt you or everyone can be offended sometimes? Straight white males (like me) are highly culturally privileged and get an easier ride for sure.
yeastcapp 3 months ago
@yeastcapp Firstly, people are offended by virtually harmless and benign statements now and I am with this guy on the fact that being offended is like a culture now and seems to dominate the media and people's lives, it's just fucking stupid. I never said words never hurt anyone did I? You're putting words in my mouth. Secondly, if you believe that this guys statements are totally wrong then you cannot exclude certain groups of people which is what you just did. What if someone is offended by
LukeGriffths121 3 months ago
@yeastcapp chin up sweetheart its only words.
Derbensteiger 3 months ago
@yeastcapp your statement. What if a white straight male is a very religious man? Can he not be offended by attacks against his religion? You're a moron. I think sometimes people should be offended and I don't believe people should purposely try to be offensive towards other people but it's got to a stage now where it is beyond ridiculous.
LukeGriffths121 3 months ago
I think people are taking this too seriously in their support of this message - he is a comedian making a JOKE! I'm sure if Steve Hughes' dad died or his daughter was raped he wouldn't appreciate me turning it into a punch line.
Stylus1997 3 months ago
thumbs up if people getting offended gets you offended.......oh hang on.....
MrDERIAIR 3 months ago
i agree with this tramp
bensimps123 3 months ago
Excellent in every way! No doubt some people will be offended by this.
MolloyVids 3 months ago
I laughed so hard I punched my dog.
Ophiekins 3 months ago
@Ophiekins You win the prize for most random comment of the day *hi-five*
DKOPness 3 months ago
69 people were offended.
ColdAdapt 3 months ago
great discussion on the pussification of America
Acquisto 3 months ago
relativism, it shuts people up!
mrlilhanna 3 months ago
He may be a comedian, but, damn, he hits the nail on the head!
sw19cam 3 months ago 82
@sw19cam Nailed it?
sukingeggs1 3 months ago
@sw19cam really good comedians should do that :)
corysytaccount 2 months ago
@corysytaccount I'm fortunate enough to be seeing SH this week!!
sw19cam 2 months ago
Soo 240p we meet again
notfound85 3 months ago
@notfound85 240p, and wrong aspect ratio too. Ah well, at least we can hear clearly what he's saying, which is more tan can be said for the Finnish set.
3rdAutisticCuckoo 3 months ago
To put things into perspective, nothing is offensive until it happens to you. You can say that you can choose to not be offended all day and all night for the rest of your life, but you're lying to yourself if you think you have been exempt from being offended. Yes, you don't have to be vocal about it but if you're not vocal about being offended, people will keep offending you and you will be their doormat. Although this comedian is funny, there are ways to be funny w/out offending.
Blissss09 3 months ago 3
@Blissss09 I guess it can depend on the extremity of the event that happened to you. If you've gone through a break up, you can still find it funny if someone mocks it... hopefully. But yeh really serious bad stuff like rape seems to be funny for everyone else that is hasn't happened to x
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MrSistermaryelephant 3 months ago
you being offended by a video about being offended offends me belief of not being offended..... offended
jaizizkool 3 months ago
@jaizizkool OFFENDCEPTION!!!!!
candemkd 3 months ago
Watch this, Anton Ferdinand, you disgusting, cheating, stupid CUNT!
ConeRulezZ 3 months ago
r/starcraft anyone?
Infiltration36 3 months ago 7
This video offends me.
sandrsofias 4 months ago 86
Legend !
ThYnE138 4 months ago
I actually agree with this guy.
Shadowking640 4 months ago 4
Love the fucking shit out of this.
azureundead 4 months ago
Man, I am not trying to make anyone do anything and I have already explained and apologised for the fact that I very stupidly brought up the point here after the whole Gervais "mong" argument. Please don't act like you know me or anything about me because I am not doing that with you, even though you're insulting me. Just chill out and agree that we clearly believe two different things, that's that. That SirToshley dude seemed amiable enough, and he actually had more of a right to be pissed off.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
You just did it. "It would be more worthwhile to read a book, hey read this!" I take that as trying to push something on me. Believe what works for you, but let it be questioned.
I don't have a stake in anything before I replied, doesn't matter to me. You're not being presumptuous although you claim I believe something, though you obviously can't tell what? PC to me is something that is delivered through the establishment and conformed to, instead of people doing it out of sincerity, that's all
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
@TheKingofBastards Even if that was to be the case, that people conform to PC, not out of sincerity, isn't that an okay thing? Surely it's better that people don't offend one another out of trying to be polite rather than offending one another? There are still enough horrific cases of people suffering because of such things as race,disability etc. that I think that PC is a good thing.
And I wasn't meaning you to read anything. It's just they are much more eloquent/interesting than this exchange.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
No, it isn't, and that should be obvious. A superficial change in language will do nothing but give less obvious excuses for people to victimize themselves over.
Since you can't shut the fuck up about how boring and how uninteresting and how meaningless this exchange is (despite the fact that you won't do the rational thing and say nothing if you really feel that way), I'm going to point out that it undermines any values you may hold about language or humanity, now fuck off.
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
@TheKingofBastards Hahaha, jeeez... alright. Peace.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
"I went to a comedy club and he said about the Lord and I was offended.... and when I woke up I had leprosy" - hilarious
PaladinOfLondon 4 months ago 4
I can get why people think this is funny, but to utilise what he's saying as if it has any actual thought or relevance past humour is just bullshit. But to be fair, that big Michael Mcintyre sign behind didn't exactly make me hold my breath and wait for anything profound...
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
@ivebeeneatingforyouu But it does though, if people took those words that they find offensive, and stopped being offended by them, they wouldn't be offensive, and would no longer have to bring negativity to the scene because they were offended. They would also now have a spine, and humanity would be ever so slightly better.
SirToshley 4 months ago 3
@SirToshley You're kind of burdening the recepient with all the responsibility. Racism, fx., doesn't go away, if people just stopped being offended by racial slurs and racist sentiment.
What we say doesn't exist in a vacuum. We have the right and the freedom to offend each other, but we also shouldn't act like dickheads, twats and idiots just for the sake of acting like dickheads, twats and idiots. Nor should we just ignore people, when they say hateful shit. That's as good as condoning it.
Solario392 4 months ago
@ivebeeneatingforyouu I know what you mean, and do agree for the most part. I do however think that it is easier to choose not to offend than it is for certain people to choose whether or not something offends them. (Sorry, very clumsily worded). Although, reading back my comment I was a little angry and venting spleen about this whole Ricky Gervais "mong" thing. Stupid and a little irrelevant of me, I know, to bring up a point about something else and post it here.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
@ivebeeneatingforyouu So it's easier for peope to control how they act than how they react? What rubbish.
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
@TheKingofBastards Not in all circumstances. And not "how they act": i said "choose not to offend". I'm not saying anything about censorship either. People can say whatever they want, I'm just saying that if people joke about certain subjects, e.g. the disabled, rape etc. without there being any meaning or thought behind the joke then to me, I don't think it's a joke worth making. But like I said, I wasn't really directing my first comment at this guy, was just a little drunk, so I apologise.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
Actually you can't choose not to offend someone. Moreover that's onesided. I have to understand somebody well enough to not offend (nevermind the fact that they might not even deserve that kind of understanding), but they are in no way responsible to have the understanding required not to get offended in the first place?
Keep drinking.
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
@TheKingofBastards I didn't really understand much of that. But I can't really be bothered arguing - like I said, this isn't really an appropriate platform for any interesting discussion. From you or me; to anyone.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
Why, because it's riddled with inhumanity and overblown egos (your own compels you to make such a sad statement as that)? Guess what, that's everywhere else in the world.
Just keep drinking.
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
@TheKingofBastards Dude, what on earth are you talking about? I'm just saying I have enough respect for the both of us, and for most other people who would see this, to assume that people don't need some shitty youtube argument to make their minds up about something so important as offensiveness in comedy. It'd be much more worthwhile to just read a book. Edward Stourton's 'It's a PC World' is pretty simple and coherent on the matter. As is basically anything by Lee/Herring.
ivebeeneatingforyouu 4 months ago
If you had respect for anybody at all you wouldn't have spoken up in the first place. Which is it then? An interesting discussion not suited for this medium (as if that means anything at all) or a shitty youtube argument? You want people to make up their own mind but you want me to read what you tell me to? You're so full of shit you can't make heads or tails of anything.
TheKingofBastards 4 months ago
Knob at Night
JohnPurchaseArt 4 months ago
Mongs in support of Gervais
M1NG318 4 months ago 12