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#1107721
LadyJafaria
@Phisshy: I have seen ample proof that stupidity and malice can coexist.
1/31/2010 10:26:48 PM
#1107737
M.M.
This was in a college newspaper? Wow.
1/31/2010 11:57:49 PM
#1107750
Antichrist
They allowed this in a school newspaper?
Notre Dame, I'm shocked.
2/1/2010 2:13:44 AM
#1107751
macahi
It's an old 'joke'. I probably first heard it 30 years ago. I accept their explanation and their apology as sincere (linked to on page two of these comments by the commenter 'one').
To all of you saying "it's just a joke" and "I LOLed", I'm sorry you feel that way. You probably wouldn't if you'd had a friend beaten with a baseball bat and put into a coma because he was gay. Nor would you if you'd been threatened with physical violence, loss of job, loss of rental housing etc.
Posting that kind of physical violence as the answer to a 'joke', as the solution to a perceived problem gives people who are already on the edge of sanity, the perception that they're not alone, and it's ok to act like that.
Aside from all of that, I choose to read it as that's how to turn a watermelon, into a squash...
2/1/2010 2:16:43 AM
#1107771
Yes, and the easiest way to go both to hell and jail.
2/1/2010 4:00:21 AM
#1107782
Anonymous
Read the author's apology letter here:
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/viewpoint/the-mobile-party-apology-1.1011634
They claim it was satire gone wrong. Notre Dame has discontinued the comic.
(I think it's too long for copyright to allow it to be printed here.)
2/1/2010 4:43:48 AM
#1107783
Quantum Mechanic
I now have an even lower opinion of Notre Dame.
2/1/2010 4:51:13 AM
#1107855
The fuck? There's being uncomfortable with gay people and then there's advocating murder. Can't believe they printed that. Liberty U wouldn't that, I'm pretty sure.
2/1/2010 7:20:40 AM
#1107942
Doubting Thomas
Wow, so I guess it's totally OK to physically attack people you don't like? Good to know next time some bible thumpers come to my door.
*edit* From reading the apology, apparently it was a (lame) attempt to poke fun at or expose homophobes for the bigots they are. That's why the character telling the joke is a saw (because he's a "tool") and the straight man is a person.
That being said, though, it is in bad taste. And I even like jokes that are in bad taste. But the only way I can see myself actually enjoying this joke is if I were a bigoted homophobe myself.
2/1/2010 9:15:09 AM
#1109165
Vrresto
There are these kind of pricks in every college newspaper. Trying to emulate Family Guy's humor by being as offensive as possible in an ironic way, and completely missing the point about real life violence on campus.
2/3/2010 9:06:52 AM
#1109171
GigaGuess
@macahi
I dunno...I guess going on this site has desensitized me to a lot of things that I probably should get upset about. Don't misunderstand me. The joke is rather tasteless, and not funny, but it didn't hit on my radar as anything other than another homophobe's impotent saber rattling. And it pinged even less so discovering it was an attempt at satire gone South.
2/3/2010 9:13:48 AM
#1187233
My dad went to Notre Dame when he was old enough.
If he EVER saw this, I think he'd clock someone.
HARD.
8/1/2010 11:08:26 AM
#1279094
Rapax Pringer
Sweet Tricycle Baal, this has to be the epitome of unfunny.
4/15/2011 3:15:39 PM
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