Turbo_ski said:
alright_television said:
Man, the holocaust was such a chuckle, right, Escapist? I demand that you remove that joke too. It's offensive.
Jews don't get daily harassment and violence for being Jewish anymore and none the current generation experienced the holocaust. Transgender folk face constant harassment and violence everyday from people they don't even know. Transgender people are at higher risk of being killed than anyone else in the world. There has been a transgender woman murdered almost every week this past summer and two this very week in America. Keep in mind there aren't that many of us to begin with so that makes so many murders even more significant.
As a transsexual woman myself, I don't want my escapism from reality to also be spitting on me and my whole identity like the majority of people I meet in life do. So yes, for something that is supposed to be entertaining, I find it very personally offensive.
1. There are still people around that survived the concentration camps and the holocaust, though it is probably safe to assume that there are less holocaust survivors browsing the escapist than there are transsexuals.
2. Claiming that "jews don't get harassed anymore" is, quite frankly, bullshit. Maybe they don't get harassed where you're from but I had my fair share of conversations where people outright told me that they believed in a jewish conspiracy that runs the world from the shadows and that maybe, just maybe someone should do something about it, not that they themselves are racist or anything... (I am not jewish by the way, nor am I a transsexual)
Not directed at you, but at whomever it may concern.
4. Your medical diagnosis does not make you fucking special. It simply doesn't. Yes it sucks that you're facing more "challenges" and harassment than Citizen McWhiteGuy but if you want to be accepted as just another part of society, which afaik is the goal of the LGBT movement, you might be better off fighting on a different front, seeing as censoring a notoriously foul-mouthed internet-comedian known to be as offensive as it gets, might not bode terribly well with the rest of the audience and maybe cause some people to view your very much justified struggle in a bad light.
So someone made a fucking joke that offends your sensibilites, so fucking what? If someone truly decides to commit suicide because of this, if this is all it takes to drive them to jump of a cliff then they should have been in psychiatric care from the get-go.
Humour is not what drives others to violence.
Hatred, Ignorance and most importantly FEAR are what cause violence and harassment.
Humour is there to build bridges and making fun of something can help raise awareness of a subject, further the understanding of said subject and if we all were to laugh together, we'd be a lot better of and I personally believe that there shouldn't be a subject, a group or anything that is off-limits when it comes to being made fun off, as long as the humour is not vitrolic and based on slurs and hatred.
R"), if we are going to profess offence toward anything in this most wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet, let us at least differentiate between those who truly believe in hatred and ignorance and those who mock them for our entertainment on internet videos. Long live Yahtzee, and long live Zero Punctuation.
