Free Speech

Preface: If you read this site regularly this post will be important in the interpretation of the things I’ll post at some point in the future. I want to make it very clear that I’m not racist, I just believe in expressing myself.

Face: I, am in no way racist. I accept anyone and everyone I meet, I give everyone equal chance and don’t discriminate based on color, religion, or any other superficial boundary that exists in our society today. I like to make jokes. I like to make people smile, and I’m not afraid to cross certain lines to do so.

I believe that the right to free speech is slowly being taken away by political correctness, television attention whores, and overly offended people. Everyone now a days is so god damned sensitive that we have to watch everything we say and do so we don’t offend anyone. That’s bullshit.

This past year I made a poster promoting an event. On that poster was the term “holy war.” The term was not used in a way relating to the Middle East but rather relating to the friendly competition between people who celebrated Christmas and people who celebrated Hanukkah in the event that was taking place. I was planning on putting it on the Internet to promote the event but was silenced and told that I couldn’t because it “could possibly offend someone.” Of course it could possibly offend someone. Anything could if you look at it from the right angle. The fact is, if you had the context in your mind in which the promo was being portrayed, there was no offending that was going to happen. And if you get offended, so fucking what? I don’t care. I’m not here to watch out for your feelings. If I were using the N word or other racial slurs or epithets then I could understand people being offended more easily but the fact that the promo was simply stated and laid out, there would be no confusion but still I was silenced.

I want to say what I want to say and I don’t want you following me around with a checklist making sure that every sentence doesn’t effect some type of people. People don’t do a great job at disproving their groups respective stereotypes so why should I get in trouble for pointing out one that I came across in my daily life. Black people are loud at movie theatres. I wrote a page on that earlier this week. It’s a fact that in a lot of movie theatres, black people use that space to communicate with the movie. Me saying that doesn’t belittle them; it doesn’t make them look like less of a people. No one died by me talking.

This all got worse in the past couple years with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the rest of the American media trying to fellate every group of people in the country. Who put them in charge of protecting our society? Who made them the ones to step in and defend Little Miss Nobody Cares About Me in Bumfuck America? If I reach an audience of 8 million people and 4 of those 8 million people get offended at a joke I make, why should I apologize? It’s .00005% of my audience. 

If you want to make an omelette you gotta break a few eggs. 

People get pissed at me sometimes for making racial jokes. These people getting mad are other white people, not people of the race that I’m joking about. I can’t stop wondering to myself why these people are protecting so many other people. It’s a joke! They’re just words. If someone hears the joke in passing and wants to punch me in the face, they can do it.  I don’t need you, defending them. I tell the joke because the jokes are funny, they can get a laugh. There’s no motiv of hate or disrespect behind any of the words, just playing with stereotypes and caricatures, essentially. I want to talk about what I want to talk about and if you get offended, that’s your problem. Turn me off, walk away, change the channel, go to another website, stop following me. There are lots of ways that you can remedy the situation short of getting Al Sharpton on my ass and making me apologize to Left Handed Jews (one of which, I am). Write me an email telling me how what I did hit you in a way you didn’t like and maybe I’ll remedy the situation. Either that or you could grow a thicker skin. 

Because we all have to learn to laugh at ourselves at some point. Getting offended at every little thing just pushes us back from that and is, in turn, a giant waste of time.

You have the right to talk about anything you want. Don’t let the possibility of hurting someone that you never meant to hurt initially get in the way of expressing yourself.