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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
There you go again, subtly suggesting the rest of us are beneath you. Why, Sky, why?  |
Since the joke made is not by me but Hitchens, your implication targets thew wrong guy. If it were like you say then I implied that the rest of you is n ot beneath me, but Hitchens.
But now its really becoming absurd, eh? "Humor für Fortgeschrittene" - humour for the advanced - is not necessarily a German idiom that everybody uses, but it is used not rarely and not by few people nevertheless to indicate there is a humpour in a joke that maybe is not totally obvious to perceive and thus needs a little knowledge about something, or some brainwork done to get two loose ends tied together. Or it indicates that the sarcasm in a joke's point is especially grim. The phrase actually is funny in itself.
Wanting to show by this video that Hitchens was mocking Jews and lesbians, is hilarious, when you know Hitchens a bit - he had gay friends in his close social circle, namels gay actor Stephen Fry, and he defended him and gays in general with his wellknown determination and ferocity in public, in speeches, in interviews. Nor did Hitchens hold a derogatory attitude towards women. But in that video he made fun by acting as if he were that antisemitic, chauvinistic racist piece of crap for sure, and he did so with a bitterly serious face (with sometimes a hint of a desperately supressed grin flying over his lips if you look carefully), which already was hilarious in itself if you know Hitchens a bit both by what he used to say, and evenly important: how he said and wrote things, and it then culiminated in his "explanation" of how things turned out to be the way he planned them to be from all beginning on: that now the girls wear less, care less for manners, and try harder to amuse him.
You want to see the big bad wolf - and he gives you one to see. Considering the comments and how theyx completely miss the point, it seems the wolf Hitchens set up was very big and bad indeed!
I admit somtimes I do like that myself in the forum and act as the unscrupulous bad guy that some people depict me as.
Humour for the advanced, and the ball played over several cushions.
I have not only seen some Hitchens viudeos on youtube, I mainly base in my view og him on the two only books by him that are available in German - God is not great; and his biograophy - and in English his book on Thomas Jefferson.
Hitchens - a chauvinist supressing women? A gay hater, and anti-semite?
Oh the irony in that!