MEDIAWATCH: The latest woke lynch mob cancelling Jimmy Carr & Joe Rogan is why the Left is losing

By
Martyn Bradbury
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For fucks sake , the culture war on Comedy continues…

Joe Rogan apologises for repeated use of N-word after footage emerges

Podcast host says sorry for ‘most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about’ but says remarks were taken out of context

Memorial day charity ‘appalled’ at comedian’s remarks about Nazi killings in Netflix special

…Johnathan Pie articulates it best…

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The comedy special is called ‘His Dark Material’, it opens with him telling the audience he’s going to joke about some terrible things but joking about the terrible thing isn’t the same as doing the terrible thing!

As for Rogan, his use of that word was in the context of people using the word, not just dropping it randomly into topics for shits and giggles.

How is it that we on the Left have become such Puritan censors?

Why are we doing the book burning now?

Micro aggression policing trigger thresholds where the quickest to take offence wins in a never ending grim roulette of intersectionist grievance where a cacophony of wounds jockey for social hierarchy.

Wokeness has become a puritanical religion with none of the beauty – it’s not so much the personal virtue signal, we are all dicks at times, it’s the weaponization by algorithms that make it so dangerous and damaging.

Twitter outrage is woke righteousness porn for the middle classes. A puritanical razoring where the self elected morality police publicly shame and cancel anyone for not using the language protocols of the conclave.

The woke lynch mob attempting to cancel Carr & Rogan only serve to create more defectors from the progressive movement and alienate potential allies for nothing more than breaches of Woke dogma & thought policing.

The right look for recruits, the Left look for traitors

Imagine if the woke put as much energy into child poverty, climate change and housing as they do cancelling comedians – how much closer to Utopia would we be then?

Meanwhile the planet is melting. If the woke have finished cancelling everyone for jokes they are triggered by, could we possibly move onto the climate crisis?

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48 COMMENTS

  1. Dead right what you say….The right look for recruits while the left look for traitors… and history shows they always have done. The left folk are at there happiest when they are being miserable.

  3. I’ll say this until I’m blue in the face. Anything that divides the people, didn’t come from the people! This is yet another corporate/ruling class con that needs to be called out for what it is – an act of division.

  4. Could be wrong here but why is cancellation considered only a left issue? Start making more extreme jokes about religion and tell me it will only be left leaning that is doing the cancelling. You can’t even buy a certain book about the holocaust in the state of Tennessee at present. That might be because a bunch of goose steppers are in charge but it’s cancellation none the less. You could say Labour and the hate speech legislation is an example of the left going down the slippery slope….but what is left about Labour?

  5. I’d say this goes beyond the woke, who are increasingly the useful idiots providing moral cover and rent-a-mob for corporate and political special interests. Helping the powerful become even more powerful such as begging big-tech to exercise more control over society.


    Why worry about real issues like poverty, housing, or genuine abuses of power when we can distract people with culture war theatre and redirect activist energy towards policing language and comedy.

    • Useful idiots yes, rent-a-mob, no. The progressive left are a part of the left, a small extreme part that holds an inordinate amount of power, but a part none the less. Some helpful advice, keep an eye out for M.A.P.S.

  7. I think Jimmy Carr’s joke was offensive, and so unacceptable, because it reinforced a negative racist stereotype. Substitute the word Roma with Gays, (thousands of whom the Nazis also slaughtered) for instance, and tell me if that would be acceptable? Take the same gag and adapt it to another situation and say, for instance, that rising Auckland rents and rates aren’t all bad because they push poor people out of town and so improve the neighborhood, and then tell me if that would be acceptable. Now compound that insensitivity by substituting the phrase “poor people” with one of the many ethnic groups prevalent among the poor, and tell me I’m “Woke” if I say that would be totally unacceptable. In my view comedy, like political cartoons, should speak truth to power, which is where Carr’s joke failed and so was in bad taste, a phrase that exists because sometimes it’s needed. And that people found themselves laughing at it only shows the degree to which we are losing our sense of humanity. But that’s where protest should be left.

    • Formulating comedic jokes is not the same as organising the destruction of minority of rights.

      To even attempt to link the shows how bored you are and how much the left has fallen.

    • You say in your own summary Carr’s joke was in bad taste, the metric being does it speak truth to power (or does it punch down).

      This is conflating political comedy (where I’d largely agree) for all comedy.
      Jimmy’s joke was not political and structurally a pretty standard piece of misdirection where he plays the ‘worst person in the world’ which he has done with highly sensitive subjects over his entire career. That’s kind of his shtick.

      He is the kind of guy who in a performance to British Forces overseas (Afghanistan?) jokes that people have conflicting views on the war but think of the amazing Paralympic team Britain will have in a few years. Further he does a lot of community work including disabled charities despite or perhaps because, of the jokes he makes about disabled people. So be cautious being offended on other people’s behalf (see Chapelle on his friendship with Daphne Dorman and her views for more on the subject).

      Even if we agree that the joke is extremely bad taste, does ‘unacceptable’ mean it should it be banned? Who will enforce that, Big Tech would be happy to help, as will the purveyors of new Hate Speech laws.

      Carr could have been cancelled thousands of times in his career, the Netflix special has been up for a month. Why we are supposed to be outraged now? Does the upcoming UK Media Bill that would impose sanctions on streaming services have anything to do with the timing?

      Years ago George Monbiot wrote a piece on how the Blair’s governments anti-terror legislation was used far more against the general public than actual terrorists, expect any speech laws to work in a similar way.

      Lastly you say some people found Carr’s joke funny, apparently this means we are ‘loosing our sense of humanity’, instead of perhaps that people laughing at something truly terrible is a release valve. It’s pretty natural, emergency workers do it all the time.

      As Krystal’s says in the piece I posted earlier, if we believe our fellow citizens are the danger and empowering plutocrats is the answer what do you think the outcome is going to be?

      PS: you’re not obviously woke, for that you also need to believe in the collective guilt of the oppressor group (based on intrinsic identity markers).

    • Look at it this way, if you asked people who was involved in that WW2 event one answer is very likely, what you’re less likely to hear is Gypsies, the mentally aberrant or the infirm among a number of other groups. Another way of looking at Carrs joke is bringing attention to other groups that were equally impacted but not discussed as often, or at all.

      The joke comes from inverting this idea and subverting your expectations. Does Jimmy Carr actually think what happened to Gypsies was a good thing that Bad Man should be credited with? Or is the very point of his joke ‘no, it is not a good thing, Bad Man is still bad and we should remember this often overlooked minority group’?

  8. If we scratch beneath the surface I think we’ll find the perpetually outraged consist of a tiny group of ugly teenage girls who hate the world because they have no boyfriend and a couple of mentally trannies. This really is not any kind of mass movement and should be ridiculed ruthlessly.

  9. Criminalising language and using euphemisms such as “the n word” is thoroughly pointless as well as being dishonest.
    The euphemisms disguise nothing and are instantly mentally translated by the listener or reader.

  10. The thing that annoys me most about the Woke movement is the ridiculous notion to them that being offended is the same as being right. It fucking isn’t and we should all push back from that rancid dog shit before it gets any further traction.

  11. The woke have groped their way up the system and sing from the same pomo songsheet to keep their place reserved. Its what social democracy looks like after its been turned into its parts have all been bought off for a sum.

  13. This woke cancel everything nonsense is utterly disrespectful to the minorities they claim to be standing up for. Its insinuating that blacks and gays are so fragile, that even a bad taste joke would see them reduced to tears and needing a therapist.

  14. Glenn Greenwald puts the US media into context and details the litany of wilful lies and misinformation from establishment sources and how the worst offenders fail upwards in corporate media. These are the institutions and individuals alarmed by Rogan and claim to be combatting misinformation and bigotry.
    youtube.com/watch?v=4Ds5NK5gkKI

    This is a manufactured outrage machine.

    • For political or social comedians and commentators, the greats like George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Dave Chapelle, Jon Stewart et al I would agree with Carlin’s sentiment. However that is not the space Carr plays in (except perhaps in a vaguely meta way). His standup style is more deadpan misdirection and playing the ‘worse person in the world’, a release valve kind of comedian, rather than one who articulates the absurdities and injustices of life.

      Carr has been doing this for years, why is he an issue now? This is outrage theatre likely, as in Rogan’s case, to cover or facilitate other agendas.

  16. Joe Rogan recently said that acceptance/tolerance of trans people will lead to the downfall of civilization. I dont think we should be lining up beside this sort of rhetoric.

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