I missed all the hoopla surrounding Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant while I was in Tulsa the last few days, but my pal Dave Rubin -- an openly gay comedian -- alerted me to this embarrassing "Twitter war" he was involved in about the topic with CNN's Roland Martin, who doesn't seem to get that there is such a thing as context when it comes to humor -- no, we shouldn't BAN the F-word anymore than we should BAN the N-word -- and one size does not fit all. (Are people really this one-dimensional?) The back-and-forth tweets are HERE. Read Dave's take-away HERE. This was so much more interesting to me when I thought Rowan & Martin had joined the debate! (Is CNN still on the air?)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
One Size Does Not Fit All
I missed all the hoopla surrounding Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant while I was in Tulsa the last few days, but my pal Dave Rubin -- an openly gay comedian -- alerted me to this embarrassing "Twitter war" he was involved in about the topic with CNN's Roland Martin, who doesn't seem to get that there is such a thing as context when it comes to humor -- no, we shouldn't BAN the F-word anymore than we should BAN the N-word -- and one size does not fit all. (Are people really this one-dimensional?) The back-and-forth tweets are HERE. Read Dave's take-away HERE. This was so much more interesting to me when I thought Rowan & Martin had joined the debate! (Is CNN still on the air?)
to understand where Roland Martin is coming from in this discussion, you must understand that Roland Martin is an evangelical Christian. He believes being gay is a choice and that you can pray the gay away.
ReplyDeleteRoland Martin has a very biased opinion in this discussion.