Fuck #FireColbert

It's on past my bedtime and dvr-ing shows is just not working out for me. (Although I do intend to get around to watching The Imitation Game--which I recorded a year or two ago--at some point.) 

But the News Feed that pops up when I check my Yahoo Mail never lets me down.

Saw that Stephen Colbert had stepped in some doodie. So I clicked on that to see how and what and who he was doing.

Oh my.

His monologue on Trump's First 100 Days was pretty scathing. Maybe as intense as his performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner, which was what made me first fall in love with him.

I loved him all over again.

Now, there's a bit at the end wherein he says,

“Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine,” Colbert said near the end of the insult-laden rant. “You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c–k holster.”

It was a sublime moment. It was funny, but it was also brave, bold, and beautiful.

So of course there was outrage from people who declared that Colbert was homophobic and who started hashtaging #FireColbert. 

For fuck's sake.

Homophobic? Um . . . if you think that Colbert's comments were homophobic, then (1) you are ignorant and so blinkered that you should invest in a seeing eye dog immediately, (2) you have a hammer in your head and are searching for nails, and (3) fuck you, asshole. 

For fuck's sake. This political correctness thing is so far out of hand that it makes it pretty obvious why people were driven to embrace an idiot like Trump. It's just sickening.

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I just talked to my #1•, and he politely told me why I was wrong to say "Fuck #FireColbert. Or, more accurately, why I was wrong to say "fuck you, asshole" to people who say "#FireColbert.

And I didn't agree with him, but (1) I love him dearly, (2) he is intelligent & rational and always worth listening to, and (3) I am not a person who thinks he is 100% right about anything. Except maybe Gravity. I 100% believe in Gravity. I think. Better make that 99.6%, come to think of it.

Ahem.

So the essence of #1•'s "argument" (he wasn't arguing) can be reduced to three postulates:

(1) members of a privileged community do not have the right to use abusive language toward or about people who do not belong to the privileged community;

(2) members of an unprivileged community often have life experiences which are entangled in words that are used derisively, thus the words are much more hurtful than they were, in some cases, intended to be;

and

(3) to react to anger with anger is a no-win situation which can only force a discussion to an unproductive finale in which both sides feel frustrated and upset.

I don't want to pick apart these postulates, though I think there are a few air holes here and there. I do want to append this to my previous (above the red line) comments, though:

I think that people who are calling for Colbert to be fired because he made a joke that they found offensive are being wildly irrational. We can't afford to live in a nation where everyone has to measure every word before it's spoken or fear heavy reprisals (loss of vocation, for instance). However . . . people who were offended because Colbert made reference to Trump's mouth being Putin's cockholster because they saw that as being a slight against homosexuality . . . I am sorry that you have been mistreated because of your sexual orientation. That is something that I find repugnant, and I would never engage in or condone that kind of behavior. I currently have few homosexual friends (and no besties), but throughout my almost 6 decades of existence I have had friends of various sexual preferences, and I have zero problem with anything of that ilk (my two rules being "as long as you don't do it in the street and scare the horses" & "consenting adults only"). I also try to avoid saying things that will hurt someone else's feelings--even when those people act like complete assholes (like several of my Xs). I do not like hurting people. So if you were hurt by Colbert's comments or my support for what he had to say, my apologies.

I do think that it's clear that Colbert was not intending to hurt anyone other than Trump, however. And I think that that should be taken into consideration. And that instead of clamoring for Colbert to be fired, it would make more sense to tell him why you were offended by what he said, what it meant to you, allathat. I don't think that a demand for rationality should be one-sided, after all.

Peace out.