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Harmon (Rick&Morty) Deletes Twitter Account After His '09 Video Featuring Baby Doll Rape Resurfaces
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Because it's part of a politically motivated campaign against anyone who mocked the Dear Emperor Lord Trump.
I mean, we already had both of those concepts in R&M at least once.
Morty fends off a rape attempt from King Jellybean (and Rick kills him after noticing how shaken up Morty is) in an episode where the post episode stinger is the villagers finding (presumably) child porn belonging to Jellybean and they're disgusted by it. They ultimately decide to burn it because they want people to remember what the king symbolized instead of who he truly was, and then the camera pans back to reveal a statue of Jellybean with his hands on a child's shoulders.
Nobody batted an eye when that aired.
Lol, "can't be forced to learn" to laugh at rape jokes. Stay classy guy.
"I'm not angry at this extremely lame throw away joke that someone made without even referring to me. I just took a random jab at Miles Davis because I was reasonably calling you out."
Look for real, if I got on your nerves, then i'm actually sorry for that, my bad. I was really just trying to goof around.
? just joking around dood, no idea who Miles Davis is
if I offended you then sorry, though you were also joking around
Didn't ask you to learn to laugh at rape jokes.
Did ask you to learn about the context of a larger stand up bit you derided upon seeing a meme image quoting fifteen or so words from.
Not surprised you intentionally conflate the two ideas for your flawed reply.
You can use ignore.
South Park is finished.
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People saying the alt-right played the left like a fiddle when the truth is they played centrists who'll take any opportunity they can to start bleating about "outrage culture" and "political correctness gone mad" the second someone dares suggest rape jokes are perhaps slightly distasteful like fiddles instead w h o o p s
Well, if you like good music and jazz you're in for a nice fucking ride.
It's actually both.
Centrists move right, and leftists squabble.
Man, I wish Carlin were alive today.
In last week's Carlin thread, I said that he had the benefit of being popular before social media's rise.
I have zero doubt that Carlin would be viewed differently if he were still a practicing comedian today.
Jazz is a genre of music that i enjoy listening in the radio but never actually went out of my way to listen because I never knew were to start, guess i should listen to some Miles Davis right now
Some people on the left really do not have a sense of humor. People need to lighten up sometimes.
Is this a multi-generational thing or primarily a millennial thing to be outraged about jokes?
Is this a multi-generational thing or primarily a millennial thing to be outraged about jokes?
Maybe you should stop to consider the fact that some people don't find certain types of jokes funny and that the context you provide won't automatically sway them to your side. Instead of saying dumb things like "your opinion is wrong", "can't be forced to learn".
Is that all that's being said? Because if that's true then I think we're all agreed, no? They are distasteful. That's the point. Now can we agree that distasteful does not equal harmful?
South Park is finished.
There was a huge thread on this board against South Park(and at the previous place). It's a bit bizarre to have people mention it here as a defense of anything to be honest. Harmon is probably safe. Adult Swim is not like Disney and frankly this is the kind of stuff to expect from the Rick and Morty co-creator. If there was an alt-right plan to get him fired it will fail badly.
That would be sad. I am sure he would have some strong opinions about all of this sensitivity.
The people that are ok with people getting fired/attacked for shit they said a while ago on the internet, are going to be like, "WAIT A SECOND" when people start getting called out for exposed Myspace.com comments.
Who the fuck KNOWS what I said on that shit...
Who the fuck KNOWS what I said on that shit...
Probably me 10 years ago.
Isn't one of the central conceits of R&M taking heady and philosophical sci-fi ideas and contrasting them with dumb gross out humour and a completely amoral lead character? That discrepancy is what makes it funny.
Man, I wish Carlin were alive today.
I think people mis understand this quote, assuming that quote is correct.
First off, it's debatable that "porky raping elmer" is hilarious, but let's say it is funny, is rape the funny part?
No, it is not.
The "funny" is about taking wholesome elements and putting them in a non wholesome situation, it's edgy humor 101. Winnie the pooh asking piglet to shoot him before he turns into a zombie is funny because it's a situation completely dissonant with the characters. Kizuna AI saying Fuck is funny because she's supposed to be a wholesome good girl japanese idol. Those memes about the green M&M telling people she will kill them unless they get her a copy of Snow white for the PS2 is funny because it's completely absurd situation completely removed from what the character is supposed to be.
Rape is not "funny" on itself, creating an outrageous, absurd and vaguely comedic situation were rape is involved can be seen as funny, but this is besides the Rape element.
Channel 101 is an open-to-anyone shorts program. You submit a short, they air it for an audience, their reaction/votes decide which shorts come back for an episode 2 and which ones get dropped for a new batch the following month. So there wasn't really a "high up" to say no to it in this case, or Harmon himself was "higher up" than any of the judges. I assume that's also how the wretched Rick & Morty pilot cartoons got into Channel 101 as well.
This is a guy who talks proudly about buying a mannequin leg for masturbation purposes... so, yeah. :p
Better safe than sorry I guess.
Better safe than sorry I guess.
It will be the wake up call for many. It's time people get an education on the social media they use, how it's easy to check your post history and the consequences what you said can have. We are getting many textbook examples of how things can go wrong lately. Some unfortunate while others were deserved (Roseanne). I'm not a fan of the " Oh well since I did it too in the past, everyone did and no one should be held accountable" defense. In their youth many people probably made homophobic, racist, sexist or even worse jokes that probably had serious impact on people especially if they were normalized enough to be on movies,litterature, TV and so on. And because people fought back and are still fighting back this is no longer considered okay to do. This is not to say everyone should face dire consequences because they said something 10 years ago but just to put things into perspective a bit.
I'm so fucking glad my high school Xanga site isn't up any longer. I was a piece of shit back then.
I honestly think you should be able to make jokes about any subject. It's just that certain subjects you have to be super careful not to make fun of that subject. Like, take for instance the episode 'Claw of Shame' in Nathan for You. The entire setup for the episode is that Nathan will, if he doesn't escape in time, expose himself to a couple of kids and go to jail as a registered sex offender. The episode is outrageously funny, because the joke is never 'haha, exposing yourself to kids is funny', instead the joke is about all the gimmicky stuff tv shows do to get viewers.
Agreed. And it's not like the Alt Right control anything, its these creatives that cross the line, they do this to themselves, some of it is irredeemable (JG).
PSA: No one's going to be checking your old edgy livejournal or myspace pages because you're not famous and no one cares what you said when you were 16. Stop fear mongering about the alt left comin for ya
That..doesnt mean Im praising him. Thats you putting words in my mouth.
I think their logic is more like "if i ever hit it big, something i said when i was a stupid teen who i didn't know any better might bite me back in the ass".
Big emphasis in "if".
This is PsyOps at its best. I'm not even mad.
I don't like this edgy humor shit, but to condemn a comedian for portraying something nefarious as something ridiculous kind of misses the point of comedy itself.
Speaking of comedy, I would bet there is someone laughing incredibly hard at you all going hard at each other in this thread.
People talking about George Carlin, he would probably be rolling on the floor right now.
I don't like this edgy humor shit, but to condemn a comedian for portraying something nefarious as something ridiculous kind of misses the point of comedy itself.
Speaking of comedy, I would bet there is someone laughing incredibly hard at you all going hard at each other in this thread.
People talking about George Carlin, he would probably be rolling on the floor right now.
Can I be Gay Country Mac then?
??? The first episode literally has Rick make Morty do things he's real uncomfortable with. Another episode has Rick make a date rape drug so Morty can rape a high school girl but it backfires and makes everyone including adults lust after him. An episode in season 3 had a dude incest fucking creatures and eating the kids from said monster. Am I just remembering wrong? Rick & Morty is full of edgy humor.
LOL I just rewatched a GB video. Jeff made a joke but I guess it doesn't pass? Found it pretty funny.
No one on this forum is gonna hit it big, especially not me. And we've got anonymous user names
In my defense I did not know how it ended, I just remembered the first part because someone insisting their dumb link is funny and not getting laughs is an old, wellworn road.
There's people who work in many fields where you could dig through a history of their work and find material that was considered funny at the time/questionable/before they were known that would cause a shit storm today,
We're now going back in time to try and find something to be outraged by, like a toy being used as a prop in a dexter spoof and suggesting it somehow means the creator may support/sponsor rape.
If we're talking about a repeat collection of work that's suggestive of the same topic... instead we're looking at an item in someone's body of work and making a claim that shouldn't come so easily.
We're now going back in time to try and find something to be outraged by, like a toy being used as a prop in a dexter spoof and suggesting it somehow means the creator may support/sponsor rape.
If we're talking about a repeat collection of work that's suggestive of the same topic... instead we're looking at an item in someone's body of work and making a claim that shouldn't come so easily.
Wait, you mean that wasn't the point you were trying to illustrate?
That's also pretty funny on itself!
People on other forums have called people's homes and workplaces just for pissing them off in the past though. Making someone angry enough to dig up old information for harassment isn't out out of the question.
Of course not, I'm part of the no fun allowed outraged left who put Trump in the office because I was ruining everyone's fun back in 2014.