No wordplay? Should I assume pun is not intended because punishment? IKEA little problem with this, so please take a seat. I have a problem with IKEA - everything in the showroom is meant to be for sale but the curtains were drawn. I have lots of jokes about IKEA, but I won't furnish Videosift with them: they're inside jokes.

Likely because race discrimination is something that lost acceptance generally a long time ago, and LGBTetc discrimination is still quasi-acceptable. I'd say that anyone who lives through a period of acceptance of the previously unacceptable experiences the dissonance between the old way of thinking vs the new.

Think about the reaction to a white guy calling someone a nigger in public vs a faggot (depending on where they do it of course). One would get a much stronger reaction than the other despite the fact they they are both offensive.

And I do tend to agree with the general cut of your post, I'd guess that most people would see discrimination against race as black and white (no pun intended), ie. it's not allowed under any circumstances, whereas discrimination re: sexuality is more of a grey (or rainbow) area.

Ultimately though, it's not like refusing to serve a disorderly customer, or refusing to employ a convicted felon. Those people are judged by the choices they make, not by who they are in the core of their being.

I really hate big government and PC bullshit, but I'm a huge fan of equality for all in the hopes of getting to a place where you don't need to legislate acceptance of people for who they are, it's just a default setting. But since that's usually a generational change, if a government is going to have anti-discrimination legislation that means anything, it should actually be across the board.

oh sweet sweet lead (pun intended)

When you say things like 'he's being a tool, and got what he was looking for' you're seeming to be making excuses for the cops. Maybe you don't MEAN to be, but you are. If you say he's a provocative tool (which I disagree with 100%) you are telling us why you think the officers had reason to go overboard. The reaction is the ONLY reason his being a tool MIGHT be relevant.
My argument is, not answering a cop's questions NEVER MAKES A PERSON A TOOL. (capatailzed because you keep missing that point).
I explained clearly and reasonably why this behavior is the only thing safeguarding your rights, and without people doing this, you've lost the rights already, because cops don't respect the law or your rights, as happened here.
The cops are the only assholes here, and not even within their legal rights. Get it straight. The videographer is so respectful he even calmly explains why he won't answer questions, for the cops' benefit since they seem confused about the law.
You brought up the 'watch list' for nothing, I explained how your example shows the uselessness of the 'watch list' because people who make a cop upset get put on it.
OK, once again, the cops were 100% in the wrong, the videographer is a hero 100% in the right who is NOT an asshole for standing on his legal rights, not an asshole for filming adults in public, and not an asshole for not engaging in conversation with a tool (pun intended) of the state. I think people who would say someone safely, reasonably, and respectfully standing up for their, and your, rights is an asshole are the EDIT: one's who are mistaken, the ones with a serious case of cranial rectosis...and one's that don't think things through very well.

EDIT: Do you realize that your position is 'it's these assholes that force the police to recognize their rights by exercising them that cause laws removing your rights to be written'....yet you ignore that those rights are already gone if no one can exercise them?

A bit more on this show... I found their YouTube channel, which has a couple of full episodes. It is quite clearly an adult late-night show. They interview up-and-coming (pun intended) Japanese porn actors and actresses, do sexy skits with them, and play racy games like the one shown above. It's mostly just advertising for the Japanese porn industry.

no, 10 point landing as in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

Bad puns are awesome.

This was also not the only man involved, and not the only concern that applied. This quote is his, not that of half a nation.

While I agree that the south had racist and white supremacist behaviors, I simply point out that the north was little better.

Both were plenty racist, and both cared a lot more about their money/power than they did about slaves. Rich white people in charge today don't give 2 shits about poor black people, I find it very unlikely that the rich white people in charge way back then cared any more.

Let me illustrate the 'champion of liberty' spin with an unrelated example :
Take the ww2 pacific theater for example. Japan teaches WW2 as a war to free Asia from western colonialism. U.S. teaches WW2 (pacific) as a war to free Asia from imperial expansion and oppression by Japan. Both are telling the truth, and both are full of crap. For neither was altruistic in their motivations, but both spin themselves as champions of liberty. For you will always have people on your side if you tell them you are standing up for liberty. (A concept well illustrated in The Prince - one of the earlier 'game theory' (from before it was called that) studies of governance.)

On a side note,

Keep in mind that slaves from Africa were usually purchased from black slavers.

And just a few generations ago, my own great grandparent's era, they and their peers were white peasant property of local white counts.

Things are not really all that 'black and white' (no pun intended).

-scheherazade

...so is this get gonna turn into a reddit pun thread?

Should we start doing the switcharoo thing too?

That's not how ewe do it? Gotta tenderize that meat before it goes baa'd. Don't be like all the sheeple, use sheer force. I'm grazing these puns, it that how you wool'd do it?

/takes lap

That wasn't a pun...
You also forgot to put on your sunglasses.

https://twitter.com/sammaule/status/596825146184355841 (via NC comment section)

Clever indeed. And oh so depressing.

A comment further down put the cherry on top, invoking the Drowned God: "what is debt may never die."

As a nerd and ASoIaF-aficionado, I have to tip my hat. Credit where credit is due, that's a wonderfully depressing pun, given the legal status of student debt.

The highly specialized, unique ecosystems that existed there are gone forever.
...and many of the gorgeous slot canyons (pun intended) are permanently filled in with silt.

The pilots still believe in the Empire as a force (no pun intended) for civilization and protection from anarchy...

...and the officers have seen behind the curtain.

Can anyone who speaks german confirm whether she makes a pun similar to "peeback time"? I assume so, given her inability to keep from laughing...