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Originally Posted by flip
I don't agree with your first premise. Just because Family Guy is an offensive show doesn't mean that every single thing they mention is automatically offensive. I've seen Peter play football on the show but I didin't see the NFL issuing a statement that it was offended that they were mentioned on the show.
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If I came across that way it was unintentional, 100% of what family guy does is not offensive to me, and 99% of the time I hear people complain about it as being offensive I think they are wrong
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Originally Posted by flip
They've also done holocaust jokes, rape jokes, implied Jesus was gay (with Stewie no less), implied Jesus was a dwarf, implied Jesus was a fraud, had a baby kill his mother, had a baby dress up as Hitler. I could go on for quite a while.
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I think that is the difference here though, people get up in arms over jokes about the holocaust or rape etc and I think they are wrong because the joke is about the situation or a type of crime. They are not making it about a specific individual.
which many people find terrible and such, I personally think its just a joke
if there was a high profile rape victim in the news and they made a joke about that person I would think that is crossing the line
but in this case they are making a joke about an individual baby with downs syndrome not just downs syndrome, they were trying to get a laugh because Sarah Palin has a child with downs syndrome. That was the basis of the joke
thats why I think it crossed the line there