Should comedians have boundaries?

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the-pi-guy said:

shavenferret said:

I still disagree with the premise that runa and the pink dog had, that words hurt us so much that they should be illegal or at the very least are deplorable. I mean, how can you let the opinion of someone who means nothing to you affect you that much? You'll never meet any of these people, but yet their words tear you apart. I don't get it, I guess because I think that the real tragedies in life are much worse than some comic talking shit .
For example:
-getting a positive hiv test
-getting addicted to anything
- idd people( formerly called retarded) that live their lives in some house and can't make their own decisions, will never have any challenges and little hope for a wife or husband of their own
-homelessness
-poverty
-being crippled after an accident or incident
-dealing with mental illness
etc.


These are the real tragedies and that's why liberals can seem really shallow, it's like they just care about being politically correct, when there are more important things that we aren't taking care of in America.

Because you're missing the critical point that ideas people have, affect how other people get treated.

Most of the tragedies in your list were and are still to this day made worse by people having poor ideas.

HIV affected the wrong group, and society collectively decided not to do anything about it. 

People to this day are still struggling to get help with their mental health, because of poor ideas.

Homeless people/people in poverty get ostracized and blamed for their own misfortune.

If enough people think black people should be brought into slavery, that's not good (to put it lightly).

If enough people think that Jews should be exterminated, that's not good (to put it lightly).

Historically and to this day, billions of people have been mistreated or actively murdered because of ideas that other people put into their heads. 

How do those horrific ideas get propagated? Through propaganda, through news media, through comedians, through governments, through social media. All kinds of different avenues.

shavenferret said:

These are the real tragedies and that's why liberals can seem really shallow, it's like they just care about being politically correct, when there are more important things that we aren't taking care of in America.

It's why conservatives seem really shallow. Because they do not understand how ideas shape society. 

You can’t say you weren’t talking about comedy in a previous post and then come back and say that you are.

I don’t buy your arguments at all, South Park spent over 25 years joking about all those subjects.

Comedy and hate speech are not the same thing.

Hitler stood up and spoke before a crowd. Hitler was a clown. But that is not stand-up comedy. I think you should learn the difference between the two.

Sure, some of these jokes made by South Park may encourage some credulous twat to be more antisemitic, but that’s a small minority at best, and not the fault or general result of comedy… it’s because of inbreeding.