In the EYE of HYPOCRISY
It should come to no ones surprise that the recent attack in Paris over cartoon artist and their satire on religion is a hot topic. Although I have many points to make on the topic, I also found that many of those I follow have already said how I feel better than I could express in my own words.
Some of my most apparent influences surely say it better than I could wish to express, so if you looking for someone to speak on my behalf it would be two main individuals.
One being Thunderf00t and the other being Theamazingathiest, both on YouTube.
What they do not focus on is where I come in. There is still space for me to express a less popular point being made, and this is hypocrisy.
I like to coin the saying "The wandering eye" because those who bask in the fortune of controversy, use hypocrisy to carry their misdirected deeds.
Much as a scapegoat is a term coined for those who are blamed, the eye is a finger in which points at everyone and everything but itself.
Labels are the driver, and loaded language is the air bags.
Ignore your own actions, and keep the eye off your mistakes by jumping on any opportunity to televise someone else's.
The purpose of satire is to criticize and expose stupidity, even when it comes to those whom belong to the medium. For something to be true satire, it must not be without criticizing even itself. No one is excused when satire is used. It treats everyone with the equal opportunity to be satirized..
Satire is the number one opponent when it comes to double standards. In the case of the recent attacks on satire, double standards have been popping up everywhere you go.
Lets get to my real point here. It is far less relevant to the killing of cartoonist, and more to the reasons behind the killing. The reason behind the controversy, the anger, the hate rants, the violence, and discrimination. All caused by people reacting to major events from mass shootings, police brutality, the battle for gay rights, and even the gender wars. These heated subjects create tension between those on both sides of the coin. People find that in the presence of tension they can exploit irrational behavior by claiming to be offended as if it were a blanket to protect them from any criticism.
It's one thing to tell me your offended. But, when you claim you have the right to censor those you disagree with because your "offended", you are far more arrogant than I could possibly describe with words.
You are aloud to be offended, but your offended feelings aren't any closer to being a factual objective arguments then before you were offended.
Your still completely opinionated and subjective, even when your offended by something.
Who controls when you get offended? You do. Its in your power to choose not to let something offend you. The minute you allow something to offend you, is the minute you give someone control over how you act and feel. Many use this as a way to take those they disagree with and turn them into a scapegoat instead of taking accountability for their own choices.
It is just as easy to choose not to be offended as it is to be offended. Even then, being offended is perfectly fine. I get offended by stupid people all the time, but in no way do I have any right to use how I feel as justification for attempting to censor someone, or discriminate, or to promote or use violence, or anything at all. How you feel doesn't become a factor into how everyone else gets to feel. Your have just as much power and right to be offended and you do to not be offended.
Satire will not spare your feelings because you choose to do or say something stupid. Satire is in place to force people into thinking before they speak or take action. It is in place to identify or expose a subject in which needs evaluation, in which needs controversy, in which begs to be discussed. Satire is in place to expose stupidity, no matter how well it tries to disguise itself as rationality.
No ones stating you can't be offended.
It's just that you being offended has as much ground as you disagreeing with my favorite color, movie, or book.
Many people who in the past had promoted the use of doxxing as means of eliminating someone they disagreed with, have now come to defend the satirist from the attack in Paris.
When I see these same people who believed that being offended was a justification for their actions to censor those they disagreed with. These same people claim to be against the attack on satire in Paris. Yet those who led the attack in Paris did such under the same terms. Being offended by a cartoonist who chose to satirize a religious figure was their justification. Yet not long before here on Tumblr a cartoonist was doxxed because a group of people on were offended by their satire.
Hypocrisy hides behind the finger in which points blame at those who garner negative attention. You will never find this finger pointed at itself, because the goal is to evade accountability at all cost. Even if it means creating controversy for the sake of hiding behind the finger which points.
Shame on those of you on Tumblr who claim to be against the actions in Paris. It is your behavior in which these views exist. Yet when I and many others chose to expose your disregard for satire a free speech, you called for action against us who you then wanted silenced.
Your hypocrisy is a game of catch, as long as you throw the ball to someone else, all eyes fall away from you.
I have said it before and will cotniue to speak it, now for the the lives lost to art and satire. #Livesmatter
