Brikar

I've moved from being Living/Arts editor at the paper to being Comics editor, because I wanted to step down from the amount of work I'll have to do.

And my first issue is apparently "highly offensive."

The color scheme in O'Connor hall is ORANGE and GREEN now. And not solid colors, either, SPECKLED. So I have this comic where a girl is looking at her dorm and says, "When did Helen Keller start doing interior design?"

And now I'm under fire for upsetting the Disabilities Office.

And this other kid did this cute little strip about an african tribe that frowns instead of smiles. it has these two guys with angry faces complimenting each other. And the Black Student Union is flipping a shit because it's offensive to African cultures.

What the crap is this? No one can take a friggin' joke anymore. Seriously. Orange and Green is what's highly offensive. Helen Keller jokes have been around for ages, and y'know what, frowning instead of smiling is fucking FUNNY, alright.

When did freedom of speech start to mean "say whatever you want as long as everyone else says its OK"??? DAmn.

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Cymro

Perhaps you should turn up to the paper office in a wheelchair with black make-up on, so then it'll be ok.

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Brikar

Now they've decided to cancel my page for this week so that they can print all the angry letters they've received.

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Cymro

Then after that you can be all like "Here's an angry letter for you - Fuck You!"

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Cujo

Oh man... thats ridiculous!

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Bean

There should be some sort of recourse you can take? Try calling one of the local papers about it and letting them in on what's happening.

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Brikar

No way they'd take my side on it.

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Bean

Still, if not the papers, there has to be some sort of advocay group for things like this. I mean, I don't know HOW outraged you are over it, but if you're really that upset, I'm sure there's someone who can speak up for you. If for nothing more than to get a little attention on the subject.

This PC garbage is coming dangerously close to squashing peoples freedom of speech, if it hasn't already. Every little thing like this that goes uncontested, just makes it seema a little more acceptable when someones freedom of speech is trampled on. It's not the big situations that bother me, like music lyrics, or TV shows, it's the little situations like this that show how acceptable it's become to deny someone their most basic, and important freedom.

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Brikar

Hehe, today one of the blind professors on campus (there are three) told me that he loved the comic, and thought that I hadn't gone far enough with the joke. "Helen Keller would have done BETTER," he said. So that makes me feel a bit better.

I do agree that PC is going too far. It's just so damn lame. People need to learn to lighten up. That way, we wouldn't have shit like murders over french fries.

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Bean

Wanna fight about it?

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