It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
People moan about this sort of thing being a threat to freedom of speech while this is going on: https://www.bigissue.com/news/activism/how-priti-patels-new-policing-bill-threatens-your-right-to-protest/
A useful distraction for ambitious despots
This is a very simple case of freedom of speech. I might not like all (if indeed much) of what he has to say, but I'd defend his right to say it. The film 'The Lady of Heaven' was pulled from some UK cinemas because some Muslim groups complained it was blasphemous. Well we all know where that ends if the nut-jobs aren't appeased - just ask Salman Rushdie.
Sadowitz runs the risk of not only being cancelled by one timid venue, but cancelled full-stop. We need to be very careful as we're already half way down a very slippery slope.
Back in 1978, the crew for Monty Python’s Life Of Brian was getting ready to depart for shooting on location in Tunisia when Lord Bernard Delfont, the chairman of EMI, decided it might be worthwhile to have a skim through the script of the film his studio was about to make. Highly alarmed at the controversial subject matter, he immediately pulled the funding from the whole grisly affair.
However, all was not lost. None other than George Harrison became aware of the Python’s predicament and resolved to fund the production, mortgaging his Henley-On-Thames home to do so. When asked what compelled him to such an act of glorious, generous madness he simply said “I want to see the movie”.
Or, for Latin students, hail et pace.
Ive seen similar written about Jimmy Carr, who I have seen and who manages to savagely attack pretty much everyone in some form. It was very funny, it was uncomfortable, it left me feeling guilty and questioning if I should have been there. But it was a good fun night out with a bunch of right-on people from work and we were all grown up enough to see it for what it was. A show - a production, carefully scripted to make us uncomfortable and laugh at ourselves. I really can't see much difference here - the caveat above about not having seen it applies obviously.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
For what my opinion is worth though, I can't stand the man. I don't think he's funny (comedy is a personal thing), and if I saw his mug on the TV right now I would flick to another channel. He has, however, been doing the same kind of uncomfortably knife-edge acts for many years and is well known for it. If the complaints were from staff at the venue, then the organisers had a duty to vet the act and make sure that the staff on duty were thick-skinned enough to tolerate any vile shit that he was likely to spew. In the end the venue management have every right to cancel his future acts, but they should have done their homework. TV companies bringing people like Freddie Starr and Rod Hull and Emu in as guests in talk shows could never forecast what was likely to happen, but clearly their behaviour was just disruptive and unscripted rather than being vulgar or racist.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Which is why this gets a bit more interesting, if staff have complained.
Isn't this whole thing just the beloved Free Market in action?