…I sometimes enjoy watching train wrecks. Start of the story:
Lets discuss a topic that people handle with grace and intelligence. For example, is blackface OK when…
Anyone who lives in 2018 knows folks are an inch from a freakout. Kelly’s method of testing the waters was to shove a honey badger up her ass to see if it would to bite.
Are you nuts lady? As punishment for your transgressions I order you to smell my armpit!
Then, of course, came the gnashing of teeth and rending of fabric. This [event] is an outrage and we demand [apology] because [snowflake].
Anyone who lives in 2018 knows apologies only work for Clintons (and possibly the UN?). All groveling, no matter how abject, is inadequate:
Of course, this is all carefully thought out individual opinion. Here’s a photo of CNN journalists working on that story:
All your base are belong to us.
There will be an employee evaluation process that goes like this:
So what’s the lesson here:
I guess it’s that there hasn’t been an outbreak of tolerance and kindness and interracial harmony? Or perhaps folks got no sense of humor? Or perhaps Mr. T, like Muhammad, cannot be emulated in costume?
I did however find one video that sums the whole thing up in 17 seconds:
Have a great day y’all. Everyone laugh and be merry. May we all find Halloween costumes that miraculously piss off not a single person and may we all have at least the sense to keep our head down if we make our living on TV.
A.C.
Hat tip: Ace of Spades.
Dear Megyn,
It has come to our attention that you recently violated our workplace standards here at NBC. Please refer to the attached employee handbook to avert future mishaps during your
shorttenure here at NBC.Sincerely,
HR
I’d venture a guess that your remark “there hasn’t been an outbreak of tolerance and kindness” is a correct one. But on the other hand everyone knows that tolerance and kindness don’t get the ratings..
Granted, nothing will get a person airtime like dressing oddly and gathering in crowds to chant, throw bricks, and burn cars. (Hence the NPC meme’s devastating humor; “we all dress, speak, and act alike so we’re unique”.)
However, a “new” and (in my eyes positive) development is that screaming and running around the streets acting like maniacs has started to go from “gets the ratings” to “gets the ratings but loses votes”. Quell surprise! It’s distantly possible that votes matter. Perhaps they matter enough to calm both sides; or at least enough to make it wise to rein in their outer fruit loops. Silver lining? This might be true despite the best efforts of the press to turn us into baying nincompoops. Whether this is actually the case remains to be seen, but one can hope.
As I get older I get more forgiving about some things and less forgiving about others.
It used to be an ill considered choice of words would evaporate at 1170 feet per second. No longer. Everybody has a video recorder in their back pocket. What was once ephemeral now has the permanence of cellulite or herpes. I compensate by discounting verbal more than I used to.
People need to chill out. We will all have our turn in the barrel. When it is my turn I hope for mercy rather than paybacks.
It is a bummer that one moment can sink a career. Then again I have more sympathy for regular people than “TV Personalities” that made their own bed.
Also people definitely need to chill out. Most of this stuff isn’t a fart in a hurricane. If what someone on TV said about Halloween costumes is the worst thing that happened all day we’re blessed.