I've frequently said that the best response to an outraged SJW is to tell them to "get fucked."

As you noted in a previous blog entry, the outrage mobs do not believe in forgiveness. Apologizing to them is the very worst thing you can do. Because there is no amount of penance you can perform that will make them stop holding it over your head. You can apologize, but they absolutely will not stop until your life is ruined.

Unless, of course, you're one of them. Joy-Ann Reid made several homophobic slurs on an old blog of hers. Worse, instead of owning up to her statements, she claimed her old blog was hacked and that she never made those statements. Subsequent investigation revealed that the blog was never hacked.

Nonetheless, the left has forgiven her.

Once it was considered virtuous to be able to laugh at your own stereotypes (because there's always enough to justify having them). It was also considered a sign of strength to be able to overcome taking offense.

Now, we're actually celebrating fragility and applauding outrage.

I wonder if Sally Struthers ever apologized for this comedic bit on "All in the Family."

Something's got to give. Something's got to give. Something's got to give. All this preciousness isn't interesting. It brings no illumination. There's no remarkable new insight about human nature.

For years in a number of contexts, Hitchens described contemporary public discourse as "an all out confrontation between the ironic and the literal mind." We've (I've?) been chewing on that for about two decades… I GET IT.

So don't be patient with anyone who demands that events, narratives or personalities be presented with comprehensible, flattering sincerity. Whether it's pisspuddle zombies from the left weeping about compassion or foaming idiots from the right blubbering about fake news....

NO. FUCK YOU.

Ours is an intricate planet built from exceptions, paradoxes, and endless challenges, and it's been like that since long before we got here. It's entirely possible —in fact probable— that the world is just too complicated for you to understand, even remotely or by your dearest-darling metaphors. And competence in one realm, rare and blessed though it may be, is worthless in other neighborhoods, even adjacent ones. Yes, you must do the reading as a moral obligation; but no one promises that it will bring understanding in your case, in your head.

Be rude about this.

I've been listening to a comedy podcast from two middle-fame talents. There aren't really any highlights to distill, and it's often inanely, pointlessly, reflexively vulgar... And those moments have given me the the deepest laughs of the decade.

The guys were talking about it this week; even without turning profits worth seizing, they fear they might lose their entirely private, point-to-multipoint distribution because of this censorious, condemnatory madness.

I admire them enough to trust them to quit rather than change their work.

Wait, her last name is Singh... doesn't that imply she's from a Sikh family? Can't Sikhs joke at their own expense?

Can't Sikhs joke at their own expense?

No, you racist.

Woke people have no sense of humor unless you count laughing at a picture of a decapitated Trump. They have no sense of irony. For example, the obvious consequence of preventing gas pipelines from being built in NY state is rationing. Now that rationing (no new hookups on Long Island) is here, Cuomo has ordered an investigation of the utilities. Irony, but not to Cuomo who simply doesn't get it.

John Mulaney is that rare comedian who only tells true funny stories, but I am sure you could still take offense somehow.

No further comment is necessary, except to say, F*** these people.

A FB post I just saw also sums it up nicely:

"Always surprised by those who can take loads of dick, tons of drugs, but can't take a joke."

"Always surprised by those who can take loads of dick, tons of drugs, but can't take a joke."

That'll be 99.99999999% of the furry accounts on Twitter.

To clarify. The English-speaking of the furry population.

And the best/worst part? The tech world is full of them.

Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.

"Woke people have no sense of humor unless you count laughing at a picture of a decapitated Trump."

I contend that this is a major sign of narcissistic / borderline personality disorder. It's long been my observation that such people do not "get" ordinary humor and can be ruthless about trying to eliminate it. But... cruelty towards people (and animals) outside of their circle, they regard as hilarious.

CD— In other words, "an all out confrontation between the ironic and the literal mind."