j.r. leonard

And nobody outside the left has any faith whatsoever that future complaints can be reasoned out with a "be respectful" heuristic. At least not one that's funny. I think this in turn leads some of them to push back against the entire concept.

That said, fear is probably overblown. Chris Rock can't do his routine about "understanding" what OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown, but it didn't sink him (and that was... iffy to say the least... at the time and not just retroactively).

1/ I'm thinking about the comedians who have suffered public wrath (Michael Richards, Louis CK, Tosh, etc) and... they all seem to have said/done things that were considered pretty bad at the time. And the older ones who've just gotten eye rolls (e.g.: Cleese, Seinfeld) have

2/ gotten them for things they said at the time they said them. Is there a group of comedians who have retroactively faced the mob that I am not thinking of?

3/ Adding: for Gus like Tosh and Andrew Dice Clay, their whole schtick is "I am going to be over the top offensive," so it seems weird to ask "is it fair to them for people to be offended at what they said."

While people who go to provocative art shouldn't pretend that they're surprised that they're provoked, the provocative artists shouldn't be surprised when people are provoked by them.

Is that a thing? I’ve seen *non-provocative* artists cry fowl when ppl thought they stepped over the line. I don’t know that Ive seen an artist trying to provoke act surprised of anyone is.

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