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Originally Posted by Chris
To take your example of blasphemy: would you consider it acceptable for someone visiting a cathedral, abbey or any other Christian institution that is normally open to the public (say for example the monastery at Buckfast Abbey in Devon) to arrive with a small group of friends and then stand up and deliver a lecture on the folly of religion?
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You're moving the goal posts here from a private performance (even on thought it is on TV) to someone. It is entirely different having a BNP support standing on a soapbox in a high street telling outright racist jokes and Richard Pryor telling them in a theatre of paying customers. Hence my "Likeminded people should be able to share like-minded jokes" comment.
And I find your comment about communities of ethnic minorities getting together and deciding what is offensive or not to be just bizarre really.
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Originally Posted by danielf
Royals can't really defend themselves can they?
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Neither can God. All jokes about gods are banned now? If a woman makes a joke about men, I can't really defend myself either?
Anyway the point is that what people finds offensive not only varies by person/location but by time.It will be a real shame to have comedy that is completely unoffensive to everyone.