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Jack Black announces new movie ‘School of Spineless PR Management’ (chaser.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Imo, JB capitulated to the far right by so staunchly objecting to KG’s comment/joke… it wasn’t necessary for him to make such a big deal about it, legitimizing the outrage which, imo, wasn’t justified.

Have whatever opinion you want, idgaf.

Also, a ‘free speech absolutist’ and ‘only wanting people to agree with you’ are unrelated concepts… to quote you, the fuck are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

legitimizing the outrage

Was there even any outrage? The only news I read was about Jack Black canceling the concerts, nothing about Kyle Gass' original comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It was a Streisand effect for sure. There was a small backlash/outrage, then JB shined a light on it by canceling the tour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

kevin rudd was physically ill, the poor dainty

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's kind of dramatic to frame "hey it's not cool to use our platform to jokingly encourage would-be assassins" as "capitulation" to such-and-such political movement. by all means make assassination jokes in private but it's different when it's through a megaphone like that - we live in an age of stochastic terror man, that shit's been weaponized for a decade now and it's silly to pretend it isn't as long as the "joke" reflects your own feelings. this is some maga-level mental gymnastics, maybe think more about it.