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Tracy Morgan
14 years ago
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Just read a journal concerning Tracy Morgan's apology over a rant he made against gays:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/....._n_881440.html
Amazingly I think I'm going to accept the apology and move on. Weather it's bullshit or not I don't know, but I don't know Tracy Morgan and he doesn't know me so I figure saying mad at some person I don't even know is not going to affect anything one way or another.
Furthermore I want to take the opportunity (because being gay is the only "minority" I'm apart of to take offence about) to debunk this media trend of absolutely destroying a person because they said or did something inappropriate. I figure I'd get no benefit out of that. Like being mad or hateful towards someone because they said something is not healthy I think, I will get no pleasure out of seeing someone's career ruined because of a backlash, so I've decided that it's not worth it. I will respond to any hateful comment against gays not with hatred or anger but with kindness and maybe a little bit of disappointment if anything else. Because gays are not the enemy, and nobody is the enemy. There doesn't need to be any enemies, that's what I want people to figure out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/....._n_881440.html
Amazingly I think I'm going to accept the apology and move on. Weather it's bullshit or not I don't know, but I don't know Tracy Morgan and he doesn't know me so I figure saying mad at some person I don't even know is not going to affect anything one way or another.
Furthermore I want to take the opportunity (because being gay is the only "minority" I'm apart of to take offence about) to debunk this media trend of absolutely destroying a person because they said or did something inappropriate. I figure I'd get no benefit out of that. Like being mad or hateful towards someone because they said something is not healthy I think, I will get no pleasure out of seeing someone's career ruined because of a backlash, so I've decided that it's not worth it. I will respond to any hateful comment against gays not with hatred or anger but with kindness and maybe a little bit of disappointment if anything else. Because gays are not the enemy, and nobody is the enemy. There doesn't need to be any enemies, that's what I want people to figure out.
Otherwise, comedians having to get all PC is mind blowingly stupid, IMHO.
With that said, if it blows up beyond that, like the "Kramer" guy loosing his cool and going off on a patron at a club, then its crossed the line.
Some of the old great comedians, Like Don Rickles, was funny as hell, and would toss around ethinic jokes and slurs about everybody and no group was immune. No one got riled up, because that was his act. In reality, this guy loved everybody, and everyone had the sense to know better than to get all upset about it.
Folks just get to uptight about everything anymore. I can shrug it off.