Just for the record: The Beatles are still bigger than Jesus!
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a public person not to tell other persons’ revered figures, historical or mythological, to suck it. If Krishna Consciousness ever came back into fashion, became a widely held faith, & celebs were thanking Krishna on a regular basis, I would have more respect for them than to accept my award while telling Krishna to suck it.
Baal though… maybe.
And only half as dead.
“Suck it” and “nigger” are both “intended to be insulting” in the same way that snapped rubber bands and machine guns are both “intended to cause boo boos”.
“Jesus” does not equal “Christianity”. Satire does not equal bigotry. Your analogy does not equal a comparably sized pile of manure.
You’re positing some kind of objective measurement of how offensive something might be. You can’t do that on the SDMB - we have had the predictable reaction where the atheists shrug their shoulders when Jesus is being insulted, but bristle when it is something politically incorrect. My point is that people react differently when their own oxen are being gored.
As here - insults to Jesus are meaningless (according to the Dope) because Jesus is dead, etc. So is MLK, but something that is insulting to his memory gets your instant reaction.
That’s why I put the “nigger” in there instead of “n*gger”. It needed to have sting - toning it down would have ruined the equivalence, just as this comedienne’s inclusion of “Suck it, Jesus” would not have been nearly as offensive, as FriarTed’s OP makes clear.
It had to be genuinely offensive, as the Griffin remark was to Donohue.
Sometimes it does, but only when it gives offense. If Griffin were satirizing blacks, you can bet your Emmy someone would be taking offense big-time.
You’re right there - it’s valid, as your reaction makes clear.
Regards,
Shodan