Drag performance resembling Last Supper at Olympic opening ceremony rankles conservatives
Drag performance resembling Last Supper at Olympic opening ceremony rankles conservatives
While some fans loved this unabashed display of French camp and kitsch, others — particularly those who espouse conservative or Christian beliefs — were not happy with it.
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Let me explain it this way. If I am going to sit somewhere, if we as left leaning individuals are going to sit and say "it's not what you say it's how others take it and be sensitive to that" then we need to follow the same rules.
If I tell a joke or do something that others take offense to, then maybe it wasn't ok to say that, or to have done that.
If I am going to tell people to pay attention to how others respond to what they are doing or saying. Then i need to follow those same rules.
It is not ok for me to tell another person, you can't say that (what ever that thing is) because of how others are viewing it or how it makes them feel. Then turn around and say but i can do what ever I want even if it offends others.
It is not relevant if we are talking about drag, or trans people, or black people, or minorities, or white people, or religions. What is relevant is that we are running around saying "you can't do that because it is offending others". Yet look through this thread, go all the way up to my top comment and look at all the responses. Notice something? People are acting like this was totally ok even though there are a shit ton of people that it offended.
So it's ok for the left to put in rules that says "you can't do that because it is offending others, but we the left can do what ever we want". That makes sense?
and you are telling me to change my tune?
It wasn't the last supper or anything with Christianity. Maybe if they were actually educated instead of being anti-schooling...
I saw people pissed off about this on social media last night. I didn't even really understand what they were upset about. Other than the fact that it's a handful of people sitting at a table, I didn't really see any similarities with the Last Supper. Christians don't own the concept of people sitting on the same side of a table.
TV shows put all the people on one side of a dinner table all the time - because of camera/blocking reasons. Is every episode of Eight Is Enough blasphemous?
Is there a way to read the thread without having an X account? Because all I see is the first post saying it's supposed to be the other picture and they don't look that similar to me. I'm guessing he goes on to explain some of the context? In other self replies that I can't read?
I wish people would stop using X/Twitter because of this kind of shit. Everyone needs to move over to Mastadon or at least Blue Sky, something I can read without having an account and being logged in.
Yes, here's the unroll..
Thanks!
Maybe if they were actually educated instead of being anti-schooling...
Half of "Against School" is incredibly based, half is a bit rambly.
You're right, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And in that spirit, I will treat these complaints exactly the way right wingers treat it when others point out that they're being offensive and gross.
In other words, I will mock you for being offended and suggest that you're trying to kill free speech any time you try to voice your point of view.
Religion has been behind so much discrimination over the centuries. I, as a leftist, will never care to not offend religion.
Also I'm very strongly of the opinion that being a leftist is about ending capitalism. The acceptance/bigotry spectrum is a different axis. And while ending bigotry is an important fight, it's a separate one from ending capitalism.
Religion is not and has not been particularly different from ideology historically.
Online Marxism really demonstrates that with the read "theory"(scripture). But of course it's just as true on the right, not only for religious texts.
Why can't drag queens portray the last supper, even make fun of it, when
a) Jeezy Creezy himself invited sex workers to his shin digs. Also cracked a few jokes himself ("Why were you looking for me? I was in my father's house")
b) veggie tales is about sentient vegetables giving Bible lessons, Narnia is about a fursona giving Bible lessons
c) if Jesus can take being crucified I imagine he can take a joke
Paradox of tolerance. Christians are actively trying to invite violence against LGBT people by calling them groomers. That's the basis of their outrage, so it is simple to dismiss it as hateful or inauthentic.
Btw, someone saying something in the past doesn't make it true.
Good point... So how does that relate to this thread?
Well, that's a horrible argument.
Paradox of tolerance doesn't really have an argument other than it being declared "this is what happens when you tolerate intolerance"
You're right. Let's all hug some nazis
If the offense is that something exists, it's not worth bowing down to. If the offense is that it is potentially harmful or dangerous, then it should be considered. Conservatives don't get to just say they're offended by others and get them to disappear.
It is not relevant if we are talking about drag, or trans people, or black people, or minorities, or white people, or religions.
then why are you doing that?
also, username checks out.
I kind of see where you are coming from, but doesn't it make a difference WHY somebody is offended?
If I, for eclxsmple, use the N-Word, the offence this rightfully causes is rooted in it being used to speak about slaves in the past. I can understand that. I understand why this could hurt black peoples feeling. So I don't use it.
The root of offence on the Paris case seemes to be that some Christian Fundamentalist (wrongly) think that Drag-People imitated the last Supper. Their offence is based in them hating Drags. That is nothing I can emphatize with. So I don't see their offence beeing justified, since It is rooted in hate.
Would they be offended if white males immitated the last supper during the ceremony? Possible, and if so then I'd be interested to hear on what basis, since the scene has been mimiced in pop culture a lot without it causing any offence (on a level that would have made it noticeable to me).
Ao that's the difference. I don't blindly stop to do things the left labels as offensive. But If I understand how and why it causes people harm using phrases or doing things then I might change my behaviour on that base. Not because "the left says so" but because I can emphatize and understand the point. In this case I can do neither.
Major false equivalency. One side is intentionally offending marginalized groups, knowing that they're much more likely to commit suicide, etc. They only punch down. They literally think a significant number of normal, innocent people don't have the right to exist and they base that belief on (I guess one of) the dumbest, most grotesquely disgusting holy books ever. And it's not even a good story. None of them are any good.
The rest just want to be able to exist, and if criticizing the most popular religions in the world for teaching their followers that they shouldn't be allowed to exist is offensive to them, well then I don't know what to tell them.
See the difference? One group wants to eradicate entire groups of law-abiding, productive citizens because they have delusions that don't comport with reality and are not compatible with modern society, the other is pointing that out and mocking them for it.
I would only say one of those things is actually offensive... Objectively. So I'm not sure why I should care if a conservative snowflake gets his coal rolled over it.