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Guy Earle/B.C. Human Rights Tribunal update
There’s much more buzz out there (in the MSM and on the WWW) about the plight of Guy Earle, the comedian who is currently being persecuted by the human rights industry in Canada.
From a recent column by Jonathan Kay in the National Post:
Would somebody just put a d–k in that guy’s mouth, please? That’s what he wants! He’s a c–ksucker in disguise! He’s got his mouth open because he wants someone to cum in it!”
“If you keep it up, we’ll grab your ass and throw you on the f—ing street where you belong with your mother. And I’m f—ing her in the a–hole every night anyway. So f–k you and your sister and your wife. If you got a kid, I hope your f—ing kid dies in a car fire. How do you like that you stupid c–ksucker?”
The “that guy” in the above quote does not refer to Earle, of course. It’s a quote from George Carlin and “that guy” is a man who had the temerity to heckle Carlin during one of his performances. Kay says that “the crowd loved it. Carlin got an ovation.”
Before anyone is tempted to say that Guy Earle is no George Carlin, we urge you to stop right there. Guy Earle is (was, we should say, now that the legend has passed on) no Carlin when it comes to fame, fortune and experience. But Earle is George Carlin in one very fundamental way: They are both comedians and, as such, have every right to freedom of expression.
This Saturday, in Toronto, a benefit show will be held to benefit Earle’s legal defense fund at Comedy Bar on Bloor St. West. Forty comics will each get 60 seconds to say whatever they wish at the Comics For Freedom Rally. Click on the poster below for details.
We are beginning to find humorous the feeble-mindedness of some of the commenters on various sites that carry mention of the Guy Earle/BCHRT controversy. This one, from the Western Standard site, is a particular fave:
I really don’t think that Guy’s comments towards these two women had anything to do with his act. Being a comedian does not exempt you from hate speech. Guy’s rant was a pointed attack sgainst these two women. It started because Guy did not believe that these women had the right to kiss in public-because they were gay. He started the altercation because of his discriminatory attitude. I like jokes-and even offensive ones. But Guy was not joking. These women called him out on his bigotry and Guy responded by attacking them.
Human rights tribunal? I’m not sure. But Guy is no hero. He is no champion of free speech. Why can’t people see that?
To which we reply: Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! (It helps to read all the quotes in the voice of the Brady Bunch’s Jan character.)
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George Carlin, talking about the gray area between racial humor and racial hatred, said, “I always said, it’s not what you say, it’s what you meant when you say it.” The author you quote and demean said, “Being a comedian does not exempt you from hate speech.”Both Carlin and the author you demean sound very similar. Carlin said that the images within Michael Richards’ rant came “from a place in his mind where that already existed. Even if I got mad at somebody, I couldn’t go to that. So you have to either have something in your head or not, you have to have a deeply held feeling about blacks or Jews or whatever it is, or you don’t.” This sounds to me as though Carlin is declaring that Richards’ rant had its source in personal hatred and that what Richards meant was to communicate that feeling of hatred.Although Guy Earle’s situation wasn’t racial in nature, there is a question about what he meant and whether his rant was grounded in personal hatred of lesbians.In any case, both Carlin and the author you demean assert that some comedy crosses the line into hate speech. Now you could either demean Carlin as well, which you don’t have the guts to do, or apologize to the author you quoted.
Jerry:Your little bit of post-mortem ventriloqism, using George Carlin, is unequivocal horseshit.Peering into peoples’ minds are we, Jerry?Applying for training at the Thought Police Academy?How did Carlin know what was going on in Michael Richards’ mind? Or do you care about such trivialities?We don’t demean Carlin, Jerry. You do.The only time you come anywhere near something that’s true is when you say, “…there is a question about what he meant and whether his rant was grounded in personal hatred of lesbians.”That is a question that can only be answered by Mr. Earle himself. And we must take him at his word.And if you are proposing that we embark on a program to guess as to the motivations behind what people say, we’re all in for a rough time.What you advocate is, to say the least, dangerous.Being a mid-level manager at an informations systems company does not exempt you from hate speech. Being an employee at an auto parts plant does not exempt you from hate speech.Being a comedian most certainly does present us with mitigating circumstances. It’s called art, it’s called performance, it’s called free expression.If you’re too dumb or too vicious to recognize that, there’s no hope for you.And, please, if you’re going to claim that we don’t have guts, it would help your case if you didn’t post anonymously.