Let's say you're right on this point: to an oustider looking in, none of that is apparent, especially when it's all just text. You claim to understand Carlin's philosophy, yet you've overlooked something so fundamental.Īdsolution wrote:When friends (or people who you know can take a joke, usually) "insult" one-another by calling them, say, "retarded", they're not claiming that that person is retarded, nor are they making fun of retarded people: they're mocking the sorts of people who would actually say those things in seriousness. This is how every joke of this nature functions, it's humour 101. When friends (or people who you know can take a joke, usually) "insult" one-another by calling them, say, "retarded", they're not claiming that that person is retarded, nor are they making fun of retarded people: they're mocking the sorts of people who would actually say those things in seriousness. "Artistic merit" doesn't have to be particularly deep or meaningful, all it implies is that the meaning behind the words isn't totally literal, which can range from a crude joke to Shakespearian poetry.
The_Real_Razorbeard wrote:There is no 'artistic merit' in cussing out a former friend while 'shitposting' if that's really what you're going to call that.Just like that, you've made an outrageous claim and drawn some completely arbitrary line where none actually exists, based purely off of an emotional connection to the semantics I used. If one does, then my sympathies go out to them and their personal issues. You're comparing the work of famous content creators whose livelihoods (mostly) depend on being accessible to a forum post that maybe like twenty people are going to see, only a small fraction of whom are likely to be bothered by it, most of whom are probably only acting on behalf of those who might actually be offended by it, none of whom are likely to read my post. Such a worldview allows you to discard context and the artistic merit language has to offer, if you just feel like it. The_Real_Razorbeard wrote:I simply feel that using 'autistic' as an insult is at about the same level as still insisting on calling things 'retarded' or 'gay.' Mannerisms that I, and more or less every content creator I follow online, left behind several years ago.There are plenty of words in our day-to-day vocabulary that were at one point considered taboo, and the fact that they aren't anymore was not in any way aided by the kind of worldview you're advocating.
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