I was just now researching current affairs for the quiz this evening and I stumbled upon a story on the Daily Mail website about an "offensive" joke made by Jimmy Carr. Not sure why I was browsing the Daily Mail website for news, but anyway...
Young Jimmy made a joke about soldiers who have been severely injured in Afghanistan and Iraq, soldiers who have lost limbs specifically. He said, "say what you what about these guys, but we're going to have a fucking great team in the paraplegic olympics in 2012."
Daily Mail readers are the swiftest when it comes to being offended on someone else's behalf, so the comments page does not make for good reading for Mr Carr. How can he mock these brave lads is the consensus view.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I felt this was a compliment. Is he not essentially saying, "these guys are fucking brilliant? and if they entered the Olympics they'd clean up?" It's a compliment to their courage and dedication and general awesomeness no?
To be offended by this is to suggest the paraplegic olympics is shite and to be associated with it is an insult. We have a society now that cannot wait to get up in the morning to accuse someone of being racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic and a multitude of other "ists" and "isms" that I don't think people actually stop to think anymore about what these words mean.
I ought not to take the opinions of standard Daily Mail readers to heart, but this insidious culture of PC offense taking is something that really gets my arse hairs up and is really as damaging as the "ists" and "isms" they're complaining about.
The end.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I felt this was a compliment. Is he not essentially saying, "these guys are fucking brilliant? and if they entered the Olympics they'd clean up?" It's a compliment to their courage and dedication and general awesomeness no?
To be offended by this is to suggest the paraplegic olympics is shite and to be associated with it is an insult. We have a society now that cannot wait to get up in the morning to accuse someone of being racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic and a multitude of other "ists" and "isms" that I don't think people actually stop to think anymore about what these words mean.
I ought not to take the opinions of standard Daily Mail readers to heart, but this insidious culture of PC offense taking is something that really gets my arse hairs up and is really as damaging as the "ists" and "isms" they're complaining about.
The end.
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