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It's ridiculous how precarious searching the Internet can be. Here I am, trying to find out when Sherlock is going to air on BBC America because I really want to see it (and if anyone knows, could you please tell me since my Google-foo is such utter fail?) and instead I run into this article thing on the top-whatever crap Brits find annoying about Americans, then it's all Americans suck, and British suck, and patriotism and having a flag in front of your house is icky and our country speaks English better than your country and... yeah.
You know, for all our talk of celebrating diversity we (and by we I mean the entire human race) kind of suck at it (and please, please, please don't get into anything on the flaws of your country or our country or whatever. Every country has it's flaws and annoyances so I really don't care. Focus on the good, dang it. The good!).
Plus though I know the article was intended as a jest, I have major issues with the whole "lighten up, it was just a joke" mindset. Especially where something of an offensive nature is concerned. I feel "it was just a joke" a mask that people hide behind when they want to get away with being insulting. Some of you might recall me venting over a captioned picture that I found extremely offensive toward my religion, but what really rubbed me the wrong way was people being surprised over our offense. Well, of course we're offended, you just accused us of being pedophiles! And you expect us to have a good chuckle about it? Um, yeah, not possible.
Yeah, Google definitely hates me.
You know, for all our talk of celebrating diversity we (and by we I mean the entire human race) kind of suck at it (and please, please, please don't get into anything on the flaws of your country or our country or whatever. Every country has it's flaws and annoyances so I really don't care. Focus on the good, dang it. The good!).
Plus though I know the article was intended as a jest, I have major issues with the whole "lighten up, it was just a joke" mindset. Especially where something of an offensive nature is concerned. I feel "it was just a joke" a mask that people hide behind when they want to get away with being insulting. Some of you might recall me venting over a captioned picture that I found extremely offensive toward my religion, but what really rubbed me the wrong way was people being surprised over our offense. Well, of course we're offended, you just accused us of being pedophiles! And you expect us to have a good chuckle about it? Um, yeah, not possible.
Yeah, Google definitely hates me.
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Re: I hate live journal...
Date: 2012-06-15 09:39 pm (UTC)From:Like if I said it in a joking manner, no one will call me on it and then I can belittle the one who does for 'not getting the joke or having no sense of humor'... bullshit.
Exactly. And the nutshell of my previous response was that there's a fine line when it comes to joking. Like, for example, I can joked about my church and living in Kansas because, well, it's my church and I live in Kansas. I know what's funny, what isn't and where to draw the line. Know way would I joke about, say, New York or Britain since all I know about them is what I've seen on TV. And if I did joke, and it was offensive to those who live there, then I deserve to get reamed for it.
It's a matter of both common courtesy and common sense. WE all have something that offends us, so to put anyone through that kind of misery is pretty much hypocritical. The Golden Rule and all that - you can't cry about being offended if you have no qualms about offending others.