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Tracy Morgan Gay Bashing Rant


Carolyn Marie

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I had not heard of this incident prior to today. I think the Times editorial on this is a good one. Comedians can get away with a lot, but there is a limit. This, unfortunately, didn't seem the least bit funny.

http://www.latimes.c...0,3706930.story

Carolyn Marie

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Whoa!

Nasty.

No apology can fix a rant like that in my mind. Apologies are just cover-ups. But at least he got called on it.

Johnny

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If you want to attribute thinking to this sort of thing I suppose he was trying to please what he thought would be an 'all redneck' audience - forgetting about TV, recorders and cell phone video releases of just about everything.

I don't believe that any real thought was behind this just more of his random and somewhat incoherent brand of what is closely termed comedy.

Apologies did not work for any of the others listed - is he going to get by on this - who thinks that he is funny anyway?

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Sally

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Guest Angelicah

That might be one of the hardest tasks for a comedian who wants to try and go out of line, finding that line between funny and offensive. Obviously this guy didn't manage it, where as Stephen Lynch and Bill Hicks hit spot on xD (I guess some might disagree with me on those two though :P)

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He was just a comedian, being a comedian. Who really cares how he feels? Are we so thin skinned that we cannot laugh at ourselves and find humor?

What he said was wrong, but he was doing stand up comedy. I for one don't really care if he likes gays, lesbians, green headed horses, or pink sheep. I was taught a valuable lesson the other day when I made a comment on another board about something I thought was wrong. What I failed to see was that all I had to do was click the back button, instead I made a comment. It was not only unnecessary, it was uncalled for and I got a tongue lashing for it. Rightfully so.

In a perfect world we would all get along. Wars would not be fought and TG girls wouldn't get beat up in McDonalds, but we don't live in that world.

He apologized. It's now a non issue

All this is my opinion.

Nova 

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Guest jennifer-at-home

He was booed, I guess that can only be viewed as a good thing, the sad thing is the media backlash from this 'gay bashing' scorning Tracey Morgan, will inevitably lead to a counter public spewing of half-baked slurs, it only takes a news story that is slightly positive to the LGBT community to start the hate flying, in the publics comments, I shudder to read some of the messages people leave on such stories. Maybe I have just been unlucky in the stories I have read.

More directly related to the story there is a line between hatred comedy, and this crossed it wether Tracey Morgan meant it or not.

Jen

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Guest Mina89

I didn't see his bit, so I don't know if it was actually funny at all. In fact, I've never seen any of his stand-up before. It doesn't really matter in the context of my opinion.

As with all derisive comments, I couldn't care less about them if they were about a group I belong to in general. I get way too many offensive personal comments to worry about the blanket ones.

I think apologies are feeble expressions of remorse, but everyone should recognize that belonging to a social group (especially one defined from the outside) is a relative, abstract thing. If you are not personally involved with every member, or at least a majority, of that group, it's really strange to take generic insults about it personally.

I am a person who is trans and a lesbian. If you insult transness or lesbianism, I may not agree or care to be around you. If you insult my transness or lesbianism, or that of people I know personally, then we have a problem.

I don't pretend to speak for any group, nor do I pretend to feel for it.

-Valerie

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Guest Aly Kat

I used to love 30 rock... but i keep getting more and more reasons not to watch it =( first the unfunny jenna dating a jenna female impersonator arc and now this

tracy morgan's "stupidity" used to be cute and endearing. now it's just evil and ugly. Yeah, stabbing your own kids?? Ha ha? I don't get it.

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Guest AlexForever

He was just a comedian, being a comedian. Who really cares how he feels? Are we so thin skinned that we cannot laugh at ourselves and find humor?

According to someone who was there:

"The sad thing is that none of this rant was a joke. His entire demeanor changed during that portion of the night. He was truly filled with some hate towards us. As far as I could see 10 to 15 people walked out. I had to fight myself to stay seated, but I knew if I got up... he won. He wanted to urine people off and get a rise. I didn't let him win by chasing me off, he surely didn't get any applause or laughter from me after that point - mainly because he was no longer funny to me. I wasn't holding back, it just wasn't funny. I won't even get started on his rant about how women should be home cooking him a loving meal and not becoming CEOs or him talking about loving the moms of retards."

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