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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2013, 11:53 PM »was not the picture of Reagan in drag also insulting?
yes -- i just read that post as an attempt to "retaliate" on the other side in response to the uniform one. one could also make a good case that the reagan photo was, while not flattering, not really a politically partisan pointed attack in the same way that the uniform one was.
our language here indicating two categories of gratuitous offence, and your use of the plural both seeming to imply that I have done this on two or more occasions.
i didn't mean to suggest that, i was just taking the opportunity to lump politics and religion into one.
The thing is that I was brought up in the UK, where politicians are fair game for poking fun at,
well you see, to be honest, *personally* i think the healthier approach to politics and religion is to not take them very seriously and make fun of them all equally. i do not have much respect for politicians.
but the prohibition we have here against politics and religion is a practical one not an ideological one. experience has shown us that people very quickly take sides when such jokes are posted, and feel the need to have the last word and one up each other in insulting the other side, and it inevitably just spirals out of control.
so while you were thinking that you were just posting a silly picture that happened to involve politicians, people familiar with american politics would fairly have interpreted it as a partisan political insult that they would feel the need to respond in kind to.
to underline the point i'm trying to make.. if we had a thread that was titled something like: "Politician Insult thread", where everyone posted all sorts of jokes and insults about various politicians (akin to Spitting Image, etc.), i don't think your image would be out of place or cross the line. it would be just one insulting image among many, and every side would get their shots in, and no one would view the thread as anything but a wide variety of views. and that would be fine and i would have no problem with it.
the problem only comes when such insults are "snuck" into threads that are about other matters.. because it's at that point that people feel compelled (often for good reason) to respond in kind and rebut the partisan political claim, and before you know it the thread is derailed and the original topic becomes lost.
regarding the "this guy is a genius": HA!
