4/22/2010
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'jon stewart, the daily show, south park, mohammed, muslim' to 'jon stewart, the daily show, south park, mohammed, muslim, lovely theatre district' - edited by ponceleon

4mybroMTsays...

I have a problem with some of SP themes. When my brother had his face destroyed by a fungal infection they did a cartoon on him. This was very hurtful to his family! I do believe in free speech but I also believe in respect to people....

mentalitysays...

>> ^4mybroMT:

I have a problem with some of SP themes. When my brother had his face destroyed by a fungal infection they did a cartoon on him. This was very hurtful to his family! I do believe in free speech but I also believe in respect to people....


Which episode was that?

jerrykusays...

Hmm. I dunno. Stewart seems to be implying that if Religions A through X are "OK with being humiliated", why can't Religions Y and Z be OK with it too. I don't think Religions A through Z are very uniform though. I just get this sense that Stewart is trying to apply some kind of left-wing sense of "equality of stupidity" to all the religions, and I don't think that works. Most Americans think Christianity as a whole, as stupid as it is, is far better/smarter than Islam as a whole. Stewart thanks the non-Muslim religions for taking the show's jokes on the chin so well, but surely we all recognize that Western Christian groups are at a very empowered and popular position compared to Western Islamic groups.

I mean, everyone in comedy knows that it's more OK to insult white people than it is to insult blacks. The two groups, as wholes, are very different in power and popularity. Then there's the issue of whether or not you're the insulter, a member of the group being insulted, if there's tensions between the two groups, and so forth.

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