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[muwarrior69]

Cool, conflict resolved: I don't think any group is immune from mockery.

...true, but if you mock the "woke" group you just may be out of a job.

[Pakuni]

...true, but if you mock the "woke" group you just may be out of a job.

Or be hired to host a prime time show on Fox News.

[jficke13]

...true, but if you mock the "woke" group you just may be out of a job.

... but what if your mockery is releasing art designed to annoy thin-skinned performative Christians and the thin-skinned performative Christians you targeted do things like vow never to listen to your music again? Is that different somehow?

You're not immune from mockery based on your "woke" quotient, and you're not immune to social consequences for your mockery if you cross a line. That's free speech. People went ballistic when Kathy Griffin held up the decapitated trump head prop for a picture and she lost work because of it. Is that because her art was criticizing famous member of a woke group Donald Trump? Or was that the marketplace of ideas reacting to what was perceived as something "over the line?" Chuck Lorre seems to be landing on his feet releasing a show about an Afgan interpreter coming to America in 2021. Sure, people are grumbling on the internet... kinda exactly like what people are doing about Lil Nas X and his shoes/music video. The world is not carved into "okay to mock/not okay to mock" based on some kind of "woke" passport.

This didn't start as some grand statement about the cultural acceptability of speech in America. It started as a narrow observation that Lil Nas X triggered people in the most predictable way possible, and I find them falling for it to be very funny.

[Skatastrophy]

...true, but if you mock the "woke" group you just may be out of a job.

This is racist.

[Jockey]

... but what if your mockery is releasing art designed to annoy thin-skinned performative Christians and the thin-skinned performative Christians you targeted do things like vow never to listen to your music again? Is that different somehow?

You're not immune from mockery based on your "woke" quotient, and you're not immune to social consequences for your mockery if you cross a line. That's free speech. People went ballistic when Kathy Griffin held up the decapitated trump head prop for a picture and she lost work because of it. Is that because her art was criticizing famous member of a woke group Donald Trump? Or was that the marketplace of ideas reacting to what was perceived as something "over the line?" Chuck Lorre seems to be landing on his feet releasing a show about an Afgan interpreter coming to America in 2021. Sure, people are grumbling on the internet... kinda exactly like what people are doing about Lil Nas X and his shoes/music video. The world is not carved into "okay to mock/not okay to mock" based on some kind of "woke" passport.

This didn't start as some grand statement about the cultural acceptability of speech in America. It started as a narrow observation that Lil Nas X triggered people in the most predictable way possible, and I find them falling for it to be very funny.

Jficke, you have had a couple of great post today. Like you, I feel anything is worthy of being mocked.

I don't care if I am mocked here - I already know if it is deserved (sometimes) or just the whining of one of those who complain about woke people and don't see the irony in their post.

[Coleman]

Who's human blood is in the shoes?

This is an important question which will help me determine their value.

PS I am Christian and don't give a rip about the shoes. The outrage is hilarious.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The Onion always seems to hit the right note.  Today's headline.

Conservative Christian Deeply Offended At Rap Video's Implication That Satan A Homosexual