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What’s up with fish heads? Do you have the goal to arbitrarily mention fish heads in almost every post you make ITT, or has it all been happenstance?
Wasn't the whole fish head thing the reason why he got the pink triangle of shame?
the rape joke in question is actually funnier than what was left on.
OK, not half as bad as I'd thought. The Porky/Elmer bit of the routine anyway. But the rest of it is typical Carlin. It's just him lecturing his audience about why people who don't agree with him are wrong. It's the birth of identity politics. People go to see a comedian because he articulates their political views, not because his jokes are funny.
Back in the day when Carlin was hot shit, I used to think he was good as well. But I liked him because he was articulating a political position I agreed with, not because I thought he was funny. He was 'our tribe' basically.
As I've gotten older, I've come to think his politics (by which I really mean my politics back then) were juvenile and lacked nuance. Rather than making the world a better place, I think they've made it far worse.
I do wonder how many of Carlin's fans were whooping it up when Twitter banned Trump? I bet it was a pretty high proportion. (I have lots of these people among my FB friends -- aging boomers who loved Carlin.) They don't want 'free speech' as much as they want their opinions to dominate the media/culture and they tend to be happy when speech that THEY disagree with gets shut down.
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