Originally Posted by the truth (Post 5548261)

names do hurt people, especially the weak the young the disabled and the impressionable...these verbal abuses can ultimately lead to suicide...the laws of discrimination seem to be tighter for racism and sexism than against the disabled... .frankie boyle makes millions doing this, yet we teach all our children its wrong to be mean cruel and bigotted....I have heard millions of sick comments from kids aimed at disabled people over the years...I have worked with disabled people, learning disabled, physically disabled etc and it clearly upsets and hurts these people and it must be stopped. its disgusting

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5548949)

it's not down to frankie boyle's comedy routine why people commit suicide, if they cant take a joke how ever offensive and have to top themselfs because of what someone said, then it's their own fault, they wont get no sympathy from me, i have my own problems to worry about, but wouldn't resort to suicide. everything he says you'll find them words in the oxford english dictionary, because that's all they are words, they cant do you no harm.

Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5548995)

Well words they may be however we do have hate laws now to protect vulnerable groups against predudice.
He has a nerve taking action due to a slur against his character when he has made a packet during his shows doing the exact same to others....
I guess he just didn't see the funny side?

Originally Posted by Omah (Post 5549008)

The Greek poet Euripides, who died about 406 B.C., said, "The tongue is mightier than the blade."

Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5548995)

Well words they may be however we do have hate laws now to protect vulnerable groups against predudice.
He has a nerve taking action due to a slur against his character when he has made a packet during his shows doing the exact same to others....
I guess he just didn't see the funny side?

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5549021)

well then euripides talked out of his backside, in my lifetime someone calling sombody else a name never killed them, but if someone stuck a blade in to somebody else, then i have seen people killed through that, but hey if you want to take the word of some ancient greek myth then go for it

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5549021)

well then euripides talked out of his backside, in my lifetime someone calling sombody else a name never killed them, but if someone stuck a blade in to somebody else, then i have seen people killed through that, but hey if you want to take the word of some ancient greek myth then go for it

Originally Posted by the truth (Post 5549042)

racism , anti semitism, discrimination against the disabled all starts with words and ideas....its horrific and words can and do destroy people.

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5549021)

well then euripides talked out of his backside, in my lifetime someone calling sombody else a name never killed them, but if someone stuck a blade in to somebody else, then i have seen people killed through that, but hey if you want to take the word of some ancient greek myth then go for it

Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5549091)

This article accusing him of being a racist isn't the same as Boyle's jokes though, which while some might find offensive are made purely for comedic value and is essentially satire, he mocks stereotypes and the like with his material, brazenly branding him a racist is on the other hand actually a serious allegation

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5549113)

so you think our right to speak, our minds something that humans do, should be surpressed?

Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5549089)

No he wasen't he was spot on, you can stick a knife in someone yes, but if you can talk 100 people into sticking knives in each other it's much more effective.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 5549025)

That's actually a very good point Kizzy. If he wants to carry on with those types of jokes fine but he can't then complain when someone says something insulting about him

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 5549128)

What about the Papers right to speak their minds about Boyle then? What's good for the goose and all that

Originally Posted by The Mockinator (Post 5549155)

But they are not joking, a big difference.

Originally Posted by wannashag (Post 5549113)

so you think our right to speak, our minds something that humans do, should be surpressed?

Originally Posted by Omah (Post 5549145)

Yeah, Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment, was a master at doing that .....

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 5549173)

So what? Do you think Harveys parents and family found it funny when he was the butt of Boyles jokes? I find it funny that Boyle cries like a little bitch when someone insults him after all the s**t he says about people including specific disabled children