Outrage as Australian TV station 'mocks mental patients'
Jocularity is very risky these days:
"Mental health advocates have lashed out at Channel 10's new station promotion, which features network stars mimicking patients in a support group, "suffering'' from their celebrity status.(Video at link)
High-profile presenters including Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Paul McDermott and Shaun Micallef parody those in crisis, appearing dishevelled, catatonic and highly emotional. Bassingthwaighte cries hysterically, comic Mikey Robbins rocks in his chair, mumbling, while Neighbours starlet Margot Robbie mindlessly strums the show's theme song on a toy guitar.
Talkin Bout My Generation's Amanda Keller sums up the stars' complaints, telling the group they are feeling "the pressure of making 2010 even better than last year.''
However, counsellors have attacked the station I.D as "insensitive'' and "distasteful.'' Lifeline's Chris Wagner said the latest "Seriously'' sketch, which leaked on YouTube but will air this Sunday, ran the risk of discouraging those in need. "They make a joke of what can be a really important process for those dealing with a mental health crisis and if it discourages even one person from seeking out this sort of help or support that is not on.''
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What a retarded thing to do!
And here it sounded like they were using mental challenges to mock celebrities.
Nah… It still sounds that way!
Being "offended" has been turned into a multi-Billion dollar business, and a full-time occupation for some groups of people.
This also shows (again) how political correctness has not only changed our lives and our language, (and not in a positive way) but it has also all-but-eliminated our sense of humor, something that few can afford to lose these days.
"It's a revolution, damnit..... we are going to have to offend somebody!"
-William Daniels portraying John Adams in the movie version of "1776"
Since so many of the world’s alleged humans aren’t paying attention, I’ll, once again, give you the non-negotiable facts about your inalienable individual liberty birthright:
* There is no Constitutional "right" that protects you from being offended.
* You don't have the right to criminalize all speech, all images, all activities that you deem inappropriate for your rugrat.
* You don't have the right to silence others because you don't want to hear what they say.
* You don't have the right to stop others from creating and displaying certain images because you don't want to see them. (Are you paying attention, CAIR? Am I coming through loud and clear Donny?)
* You don't have the right to stop consenting adults from engaging in private, consensual, sexual activities because you disapprove of them.
* You don't have the right to invoke the government's monopoly on the use of force to coerce other individuals to surrender their inalienable right to their own life, their own liberty or the pursuit of their own happiness.
* You do not have the right to use coercive Nanny State power to force them to adhere to your narrow, puritanical, view of propriety.
Inalienable individual liberty in general, and free speech in particular, is a real pisser. It’s an unrelenting thrill ride during which all concepts - including your sacred cows - are tested, molested and denigrated. The ensuing free exchange of ideas - all ideas...sacred to profane and everything in between - is an equal opportunity offender, especially for certain notoriously thin-skinned individuals. Like it or not, it’s part and parcel of inalienable individual liberty.
@Anonymous 3:58 AM wrote, "You don't have the right to invoke the government's monopoly on the use of force to coerce other individuals to surrender their inalienable right to their own life, their own liberty or the pursuit of their own happiness."
Sorry to digress here, but I have a real problem with the use of "life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness" when talking about the U.S. Constitution. (Actually, I personally DON'T have an issue with this, but the rest of the country seems to, so there you are.)
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution do these words. They appear ONLY in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
Why is this significant? Because if you DO tie these words to the Constitution, then you MUST also tie EVERY other word of the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. Specifically, "'created' equal", "Nature's 'God'" and "Creator" to illustrate that this country was founded upon God-belief, not Atheism.
Unfortunately, most Americans selectively pick and choose what parts they want to use to fit their agendas without considering the entirety of both texts.
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
"There are three major reasons why you, and most people do not protest [the enviornmentalist attempt to reduce you to a primitive state].
(1) You take technology--and its magnificent contributions to your life-- for granted, almost as if it were a fact of nature, which will always be there. But it is not and will not.
(2) As an American, you are likely to be very benevolent and enormously innocent about the nature of evil. You are unable to believe that some people can advocate man's destruction for the sake of man's destruction--and when you hear them, you think they don't mean it. But they do.
(3) Your education--by that same kind of people--has hampered your ability to translate an abstract idea into its actual, practical meaning and, therefore, has made you indifferent to and contemptuous of ideas. This is the real American tragedy."
– Ayn Rand
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS ANTI-FREEDOM!
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