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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Not to demolish my status as one of the people too smart to stick her nose into this one, but in fairness, Bilmore didn't equate the two, and never suggested that either comment was "appropriate", either in the first instance or in retaliation; he pointed out that some of the same people who freak out when righteously (and justifiably) trouncing someone's biggoted comments about Jews insist that sweeping stereotyping insults aimed at Christians or sects thereof are "funny," and that there is some obvious hypocracy there, no matter how much Thurgreed insists that "you people just have no sense of humor."
Jokes about individuals for things they actually did or said are clearly distinguishable, without commenting on their appropriateness.
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I disagree with your characterization of whether his comments suggested that, at the very least, the two comments were comparable. I agree that he didn't suggest that either was appropriate. He did then say something, and I would assume that if he were commenting negatively on other people's appropriateness, he wouldn't be making a comment he considered inappropriate on the very same day.
I was really initially just yanking his chain and trying to get him to see something from another person's perspective, which he said he was good at and Thurgreed isn't.
