Wednesday, April 17, 2013

More With the Dumb "Sensitivity"

Americans have become a place of people who apparently need "trigger warnings" and protections from cartoons and the like because their fragile emotions will lead them to utter dispair and perhaps lawsuits. As reported by the NY Times:
A recent episode of “Family Guy” that contained jokes about deaths at a marathon has been removed from Fox’s Web site and from Hulu, the network said Tuesday, one day after twin explosions at the Boston Marathon.

The episode, broadcast on March 17, imagined a scenario in which the cartoon character Peter Griffin won a marathon by driving across the finish line, killing runners along the way. The episode also included a joke about a terrorist blowing up a bridge with two bombs, which were inadvertently triggered by Griffin’s cell phone. After the bombings in Boston, a video uploaded to YouTube showed the two scenes spliced together, leading some Internet commenters to claim that the TV show had predicted the attack. The video has since been blocked.
This is beyond stupid. The ONLY people who would be seeing the videos on the internet are those *looking* for it. And that's not even the important part. What the fuck is wrong with a country of people who need to have shit censored and removed for them because they lack the mental fortitude to "deal with it"?

Seriously this country is quickly becoming a place full emotionally unstable and fragile people. Sad. Really sad.