On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 6:11 PM Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brad Beam, to moi: >> >> *>*James Burgos has the context on the 'toob >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xdx5XQkA2g> (link), NY Times >> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/arts/television/bill-maher-n-word.html?_r=0> >> (link) among others adds HBO and Bill offered separate mea culpas, *>*and >> the line will be edited out of repeats; still, tweetboxers called for his >> head. >> >> >> See if Kathy Griffin is a tweetboxer – she may have a few spare heads >> lying around. (Odd that Billo only had a fleeting reference to Ms. >> D-List last night. I figured he’d jump on her free-speech bandwagon.) >> > > She's (understandably) parking any social-site use. > > The only people I see defending her are other comics, and nearly all of them start by expressing disapproval of what she posted but defending her right to post it.
I've said before that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequence. It merely means the government cannot censor her. Deserved or not, Griffin can't be oblivious to the charged climate. And whereas Obama (and every prior potus) rarely reacted to such public displays, Trump was practically guaranteed to react exactly as he did and his cult of followers react as they did. I'm in no way defending their reactions, but they were predictable... if Griffin fears for her life or fears her career is over, that is literally the consequence of freedom of speech. This is also Maher's big failing. He delights in having the worst humans on earth as guests on his show as a celebration of the 1st Amendment, because he fails to comprehend that people can be personally offended by speech. Wealthy white guys with a history of inflammatory speech are going to face consequences if they use the n-word as a punchline on live TV. The backlash is predictable and easily avoidable. Maher can't just do one of his Jack Benny "aw shucks" lookaway takes and move on with his life. Just because you can legally say or do something doesn't mean you should. And in a capitalist society, the free market can dictate consequence. > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
