The Big Picture: Correctitude
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The gun is inside his leg, so we can't see it unless he's holding it. If he WAS holding it in the pose it would be tacky, too "on the nose. The statue should have him posed in the same kind of "dignified stance" like a kind of statesman - we can tell it's Robocop, the gun is unnecessary.Gunnyboy said:
I think you may be going a bit over the top on this. There are certainly situations where political correctness is ridiculous, for instance, the Ba Ba Rainbow Sheep thing, or people complaining that black is an insensitive term. Sure if someone specifically asks me to not call them that I won't, but it doesn't make them any less black. Should I start complaining when people call me white?
I was thinking this exact same thing as I watched the video, and it was the first thing that had me rolling my eyes.samus17 said:
The second thing, and what ultimately made me stop the video and lose interest in Bob in general, was him again going to the "Cha Bro" voice to insult a certain group of people. Dude, we all get that you got beaten up or made fun of by a jock at some point in your life. GET OVER IT, and stop using That Voice as a crutch whenever you want to demean someone.
Maybe use the voice of another stereotype, like a lazy Mexican or a "hirarious" Asian or an uneducated black man. OH WAIT.
The man has a point.SL33TBL1ND said:
wrt Bob's "words mean things", it's a little counter-productive to throw out descriptive words in favour of inaccurate and verbose words. A white guy born in Africa who becomes a US citizen is literally an African-American. A black guy whose family has been in the USA for four generations isn't.
A little? look I was on their side up until that part then they lost me, it was simply stupid and fucktard behavior.green_dude said:
Love it Bob. Love It. You've hit one of my major peeves in the political world: people trying to elevate their actions. It isn't a fight for free speach, it's people upset others are trying to get them to do something they don't want to do, in this case: stop using derogatary terminoligy. Many even seem to miss things like how obviously racial slurs against the president aren't legitimate criticisms of policy.
Then again your next video on the same subject could be how often the term "freedom" is used by self proclaimed John Galts feeling held down, that are really just people upset someone is pointing out they aren't as great as they think they are, but still expecting them to be.
Then again your next video on the same subject could be how often the term "freedom" is used by self proclaimed John Galts feeling held down, that are really just people upset someone is pointing out they aren't as great as they think they are, but still expecting them to be.
If that's the reason than their simply idiots who don't know anything about the real world, after all they've offended plenty of groups of people with just as many or more violent hate filled individuals in them without batting an eyelash.Father Time said:
Thank you for saying in a much nicer way what I was wanting to say. I would've hated to come across as a big meanie, poopie headed jerk who wants to deport all Mexicans, Asians, Muslims, (insert any other ethnic or religious group you want here), send all the women to the kitchen and the blacks down to the fields.JimHawking said:
Really though, with his words (which mean things, remember) in past videos has contradicted himself many times based on what he said here. Even with some of the images he used along with the words spoken at the time, obviously describing them, he became the the "big jerk" who was just being "mean". Or does that only count if you aren't talking about someone on the right, politically speaking?
I find it very odd you mention getting on your soapbox... Near the end of the review, rather than right at the start when you were already up there.
I mean, goodness, if you really want to get technical, you haven't really left the soapbox since the first video? Isn't The Big Picture really less of an objective analysis in general and more of a vehicle for exhaustively stating your point of view? I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but I honestly can't think of any Big Picture video you've done that didn't at least heavily imply that your opinion was the correct one.
And I'm not saying it isn't. If I have any point, it's that your title seems like a misnomer and I just don't think this show is particularly entertaining compared to the very fine work you have done elsewhere. Anyone can do this. Anyone can frame his or her opinions so they seem like the most reasonable person in the room, when they're the only one talking. Anyone can take the obvious points that we've all conceded by now and talk about how right they are.
You want to get controversial, why not try to address the issue of how destructive model worship is to young women? How young men and advertisers perpetuate stereotypes that have women chasing goals which aren't only unrealistic, they're impossible to achieve. Not "impossible to achieve without damaging your body," they are impossible to achieve, period. Talk about personal trainers, digital touch-up jobs, starvation diets and eating disorders.
The reason I bring this subject up is that you have many times in the past been shameless in your adoration of and fondness for impossibly-good-looking women (models, actresses, it's all the same crap really. I mean, I've never heard you drool over Queen Latifah or anything). I would like to see how the two opinions reconcile themselves. I'm interested in your opinion on the issue, because the two problems aren't unrelated.
I mean, goodness, if you really want to get technical, you haven't really left the soapbox since the first video? Isn't The Big Picture really less of an objective analysis in general and more of a vehicle for exhaustively stating your point of view? I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but I honestly can't think of any Big Picture video you've done that didn't at least heavily imply that your opinion was the correct one.
And I'm not saying it isn't. If I have any point, it's that your title seems like a misnomer and I just don't think this show is particularly entertaining compared to the very fine work you have done elsewhere. Anyone can do this. Anyone can frame his or her opinions so they seem like the most reasonable person in the room, when they're the only one talking. Anyone can take the obvious points that we've all conceded by now and talk about how right they are.
You want to get controversial, why not try to address the issue of how destructive model worship is to young women? How young men and advertisers perpetuate stereotypes that have women chasing goals which aren't only unrealistic, they're impossible to achieve. Not "impossible to achieve without damaging your body," they are impossible to achieve, period. Talk about personal trainers, digital touch-up jobs, starvation diets and eating disorders.
The reason I bring this subject up is that you have many times in the past been shameless in your adoration of and fondness for impossibly-good-looking women (models, actresses, it's all the same crap really. I mean, I've never heard you drool over Queen Latifah or anything). I would like to see how the two opinions reconcile themselves. I'm interested in your opinion on the issue, because the two problems aren't unrelated.
You seem to be missing that fact that bob never said he wasn't a jerk hell the core of the rant had more to do with people not owning up to being assholes than a true indictment of being as asshole.RowdyRodimus said: