{"id":5346,"date":"2012-05-15T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2012-05-15T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:43:12","slug":"if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining\/","title":{"rendered":"If a comedian is offensive, just don&#8217;t listen to that comedian and stop complaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right? <\/p>\n<p>This has come up recently in relation to a comedian hired at a major atheist conference who was so offensive people left and got mad and even blogged about it. The argument has been made that you can say whatever you want and it isn&#8217;t really offensive if you are a comedian &#8230; people just have to decide if they think you are funny or not, and the possibility that somewhere out there in the world there just might be one person who does think you are funny makes it OK.<\/p>\n<p>But that, it turns out, <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/almostdiamonds\/2012\/05\/15\/but-its-satire\/\">isn&#8217;t at all how it works. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right? This has come up recently in relation to a comedian hired at a major atheist conference who was so offensive people left and got mad and even blogged about it. The argument has been made that you can say whatever you want and it isn&#8217;t really offensive if you are a comedian &#8230; people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If a comedian is offensive, just don&#8217;t listen to that comedian and stop complaining<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}