‘Bye Bye’ spoof angers Indian community
It would hardly be the new year without a news story how the ‘Bye Bye’ show did something tasteless to anger a cultural community. This year it was a satire around Justin Trudeau’s visit to India. This is the piece in question.
Chris 12:39 on 2019-01-04 Permalink
Sigh.
Seems some people these days are very taken with taking offense. Or maybe it’s just the media? There’s always calls for people to be less offensive, but I think we’ve swung so far that we should now be calling for people to *take* offense less easily.
“In our culture, cows are very sacred to some Hindus. To have cows kicked is very insulting,” said Ina Bhowmick. Um, no cows were kicked! It was a piece of cardboard! If she finds that offensive, she must really hate how we slaughter and serve cows at every other restaurant every day. Will she be calling for their apologies and shutdown? I mean, that’s way more grievous that kicking a cardboard cow, right?
Yes, it’s probably possible to go too far *giving* offense, likewise it’s possible to *take* offense too easily. People need to learn to just not be so damn offended by everything all the time. There’s no right to never be offended.
EmilyG 15:03 on 2019-01-04 Permalink
I’m not sure why some people are so offended that others are offended.