Paul Gascoigne investigated for joke

[Gandalf]

Just as an artist can paint anything, a comic can say anything no matter how tasteless. Well, that should be the case. Now if you want to tell a silly joke then fine, but if you want to cross the line with some kind of meanness, it is only then that there should be a price. With your approach to humour Rocco, I should have pressed charges against 1000 people and understandably that isn't really the way to go about things for silly things said in jest.

You either don't understand the situation we're discussing or you're trying to broaden the scope of the debate to obscure the real issue at hand.
Gascoigne isn't a comedian who is making a joke with a willing participant. He's an old drunk football hero who is deliberately isolating, embarrassing and humiliating a black man in front of an audience of his fans. The black man is in unconsenting participant who has no opportunity to retaliate in return and is being humiliated because he has no voice or choice in the situation.

The fact that you've tried to insert yourself into the argument as some type of victim shows that you're a pathetic fucktard Miles.

So, a joke is the root of all evil and malicious non-humour based abuse is perfectly fine. Good logic there. My point was that it is stupid to press charges against everyone who makes a silly joke about you and to constantly refer to race as the big evil is in itself very pathetic. Now if Gascoigne had said "You darky at the back, I cannot stand the likes of you because of your skin" then that is clearly hateful and unfortunate. There wouldn't be the semblance of a joke. However, that wasn't the case and actually what you said above is far worse than what Gascoigne said and that you adhere to the race line and hurl out abuse sums you up here really. You deny free speech on humour and race and love it to say anything you like without any humour. Hypocrite.

[Gandalf]

Oh dear. Just as long as you are not using race, I guess you can get away with saying anything you like. The Rocco rule book is a funny one.

Edit: Hey, that's not fair! You cannot delete your non-racial post encouraging me to kill myself!

[ruthless rocco]

Abuse is what you do to yourself Miles.

The ridicule that's thrown at you is because we all know you-- and we know you love it. You'd probably die without the attention.

I see you won't address the real issue here and instead will continue to skirt the issue, act like a baby, and continue to compare this to the nazis. So I'm gonna walk away from your racist excusing, self pittying masturbation session now.

[Gandalf]

Pfft, the argument is a simple one, should one be allowed to tell a joke involving race? Yes or No. All this other waffle about death, wanking, and fucktarding is all your own. You made some fairly decent points earlier in the thread, but then you lost control and went all fluffy marshmallow on me. I am not angry with you, it happens sometimes.

I posit forth the view that comedy is a realm, like art, where anything goes. You choose to listen to that person or not. You can walk away if you don't like the style. I would never listen to Jim Davidson for that reason. However, I would never take away his right to say whatever he likes. Likewise, you can say whatever you like, but it should really be in joke form rather than just flat out abuse. Still, that is your call.

I haven't played a victim in this thread, but merely pointed out that racial jibes happen all the time and why is a racial joke more significant than to be told to kill oneself for instance? I don't understand how the joke can result in a police investigation and the behavior of people like you is perfectly fine. See it was a joke. It was not malicious. I don't get your arbitrary distinctions and hypocritical behavior. It is illogical.

[Master]

Rocco has said you can make a joke but it has to begin context and he gave examples on when it would be a joke.

[Gandalf]

I said he made some fair points early on, but he unwound quite messily thus discrediting his entire point of view. He has no consistency.

Comedians regularly mock their audience. It could be a fat person, an ugly looking person and people accept that it is cruel, but the nature of a certain type of comedian. Why is race more important than those other things. There shouldn't be an arbitrary choice where this is okay but that just isn't. There needs to be logic. If being offensive is this issue then you should probably outlaw comedy. I saw Jimmy Carr was investigated over some tiny joke about dwarves too. Not by the police but some TV watchdog. There is seemingly no free speech. Ban the word mong and all kinds of silliness.

[Britkid]

There is a place for 'racist joke'; but the joke's punchline has to be the 'comedian's' ignorance. For example (as a Brit):

Curry?! I hate foreign food! Instead give me a nice pizza.

[Gandalf]

That's where I think Gascoigne probably gets away with it. He isn't known for saying very astute things and thus you can probably laugh along with the 'fool'. Rocco tried to say it was some 'power play', but you would struggle to find anyone more ridiculed or mocked than Gascoigne himself and by institutions that claim to transmitting news or stories of interest to the public.

[Master]

That's where I think Gascoigne probably gets away with it. He isn't known for saying very astute things and thus you can probably laugh along with the 'fool'. Rocco tried to say it was some 'power play', but you would struggle to find anyone more ridiculed or mocked than Gascoigne himself and by institutions that claim to transmitting news or stories of interest to the public.

Power play was the fact that he was white. Paul is also alcoholic, broke and unhealthy no power to laugh at others.

[beenKOed]

Thanks for proving that you don't understand racism and that you sympathize with racists.

I don't mind a good racy joke!!

[El Kabong]

You know how the gun control crowd always insists they only want to keep things safe and that "no one is trying to take your guns away"......well welcome to what happens AFTER your guns have been taken away.

"Oh we don't want to take your Freedom of Speech away....we just want everyone to be safe"





So when people wonder why I get my hackles up about gun control here's your fucking reason. The slow and steady erosion of LIBERTY is why I get angry.....not that it matters because you know everyone just wants to be "safe"

[Master]

You know how the gun control crowd always insists they only want to keep things safe and that "no one is trying to take your guns away"......well welcome to what happens AFTER your guns have been taken away.

"Oh we don't want to take your Freedom of Speech away....we just want everyone to be safe"





So when people wonder why I get my hackles up about gun control here's your fucking reason. The slow and steady erosion of LIBERTY is why I get angry.....not that it matters because you know everyone just wants to be "safe"

So you take guns away and the it will be freedom of speech? Very rational. This is about making racist jokes which should stay in the 1970's.

[El Kabong]

So you take guns away and the it will be freedom of speech? Very rational. This is about making racist jokes which should stay in the 1970's.

I'm quite aware of what the thread is about Master. Yes, my line of thinking is indeed VERY rational if you're to look at the recent history of England, Australia, Canada, and college campuses across America.

England has banned guns. Australia has made it very difficult to have a gun. Canada has big time gun control.

Apparently certain kinds of speech are now against the law in England. I know that Greg Elliot, a Canadian man, was accused of "Criminal Harassment via Twitter" by two women just because he disagreed with those women and he was facing 6 months in jail for that.





Liberty is not stolen away all at once, it's inch by inch. The ruling class took your guns or rather you gave them up, and now they are limiting your speech and you don't see anything wrong with it? Well to that I say, doubleplus good comrade!



....don't look at what they'll erode away, look at the core of what you are losing. Freedom of expression, if you're a racist asshole be one loud and proud, I'm not, but fucking hell racists should be allowed to speak so people know them for what they are. These laws, this idea of "safe spaces" it's just a nice fluffy bunny word for TOTALITARIANISM. You can laugh that off, but your kids are growing up in this environment, imagine what will be banned by the time they have kids or their kids have kids!

I'm not a hypocrite every fucking last letter of the Constitution and Bill of Rights says what my government is NOT allowed to do, for people to fucking laugh it off and think it's no big deal or think that a vague concept like "safety" is more important it's a mistake....but you won't understand it until it is too late.


If Gazza wants to tell racist jokes he can go right ahead, I don't agree with them but I'll fight for his right to tell them....at least here in America.

[ruthless rocco]

So you take guns away and the it will be freedom of speech? Very rational. This is about making racist jokes which should stay in the 1970's.

I'm quite aware of what the thread is about Master. Yes, my line of thinking is indeed VERY rational if you're to look at the recent history of England, Australia, Canada, and college campuses across America.

England has banned guns. Australia has made it very difficult to have a gun. Canada has big time gun control.

Apparently certain kinds of speech are now against the law in England. I know that Greg Elliot, a Canadian man, was accused of "Criminal Harassment via Twitter" by two women just because he disagreed with those women and he was facing 6 months in jail for that.





Liberty is not stolen away all at once, it's inch by inch. The ruling class took your guns or rather you gave them up, and now they are limiting your speech and you don't see anything wrong with it? Well to that I say, doubleplus good comrade!



....don't look at what they'll erode away, look at the core of what you are losing. Freedom of expression, if you're a racist asshole be one loud and proud, I'm not, but fucking hell racists should be allowed to speak so people know them for what they are. These laws, this idea of "safe spaces" it's just a nice fluffy bunny word for TOTALITARIANISM. You can laugh that off, but your kids are growing up in this environment, imagine what will be banned by the time they have kids or their kids have kids!

I'm not a hypocrite every fucking last letter of the Constitution and Bill of Rights says what my government is NOT allowed to do, for people to fucking laugh it off and think it's no big deal or think that a vague concept like "safety" is more important it's a mistake....but you won't understand it until it is too late.


If Gazza wants to tell racist jokes he can go right ahead, I don't agree with them but I'll fight for his right to tell them....at least here in America.

HahHahHAAhahahHAaaaaAa!

I've learned you can't argue with stupid ignorant assholes. Just laugh at the spectacle as it passes you by. (...and hope one of their freedom guns doesn't discharge in your direction)

[El Kabong]

So you take guns away and the it will be freedom of speech? Very rational. This is about making racist jokes which should stay in the 1970's.

I'm quite aware of what the thread is about Master. Yes, my line of thinking is indeed VERY rational if you're to look at the recent history of England, Australia, Canada, and college campuses across America.

England has banned guns. Australia has made it very difficult to have a gun. Canada has big time gun control.

Apparently certain kinds of speech are now against the law in England. I know that Greg Elliot, a Canadian man, was accused of "Criminal Harassment via Twitter" by two women just because he disagreed with those women and he was facing 6 months in jail for that.





Liberty is not stolen away all at once, it's inch by inch. The ruling class took your guns or rather you gave them up, and now they are limiting your speech and you don't see anything wrong with it? Well to that I say, doubleplus good comrade!



....don't look at what they'll erode away, look at the core of what you are losing. Freedom of expression, if you're a racist asshole be one loud and proud, I'm not, but fucking hell racists should be allowed to speak so people know them for what they are. These laws, this idea of "safe spaces" it's just a nice fluffy bunny word for TOTALITARIANISM. You can laugh that off, but your kids are growing up in this environment, imagine what will be banned by the time they have kids or their kids have kids!

I'm not a hypocrite every fucking last letter of the Constitution and Bill of Rights says what my government is NOT allowed to do, for people to fucking laugh it off and think it's no big deal or think that a vague concept like "safety" is more important it's a mistake....but you won't understand it until it is too late.


If Gazza wants to tell racist jokes he can go right ahead, I don't agree with them but I'll fight for his right to tell them....at least here in America.

HahHahHAAhahahHAaaaaAa!

I've learned you can't argue with stupid ignorant assholes. Just laugh at the spectacle as it passes you by. (...and hope one of their freedom guns doesn't discharge in your direction)

Did you check with your government before you posted that?








.....don't worry, you will