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When a group of people say that something is offensive to them, it's really not a good look to argue with them.
I wholefully disagree, and so does Stephen Fry.
When a group of people say that something is offensive to them, it's really not a good look to argue with them.
its literally pinnochio.To people saying they don't understand how this could be attributed to anti-semitism; have you never seen nazi propaganda cartoons or are you just blatantly ignorant?
You don't get to replicate this kind of imagery and feign ignorance.
1.) I don't think I saw anyone in the entire thread defending BehringerThere is more modern day hatred, envy, jealousy, bigotry, shallowness, narcissism, racism, anti-semitism, and prejudice in the world than anyone can fathom. If one wants to tackle these energies being a stand up comic or comedy writer/actor is the best way to diffuse it.
However, given the historical hatred in France and England of Jews and the murder of 6 million Jews by Germans and Austrians, I have zero tolerance when a non-comedian German corporation (Behringer) engages in any kind of racist or anti-Semitic humor.
Frankly, unless the company makes its bread and butter regularly delivering satirical or comedic content, I have no tolerance for any corporation to engage in this kind of behavior, it’s completely inappropriate and inhuman. It demonstrates that people and management at that company are using and hiding behind satire and comedy to openly display their racist and anti-Semitic loathing. It is extremely common for anyone to use comedy or sarcasm to express their true feelings and then cowardly act like they were just joking.
If there are journalists who consistently criticize a corporation the best way for that company to respond is to simply ignore them and go about their business. Behringer showed the world how they have powerful people at that company with a racist and anti-Semitic agenda. Those people should be fired immediately and Behringer should come out with a strong public apology. I have never bought a Behringer product and I never will. I won’t be buying any German cars either because the auto industry in Germany files their entire economy and too many powerful families that run the largest manufacturing companies in Germany have major ties to the Nazi party during WWII.
Anyone trying to defend Behringer in this regard is either fvcking clueless, immature and lacks character or racist and anti-Semitic themselves!! So go keep publicly defending this company and let others know who you are at your core. You can’t just hide beyond the excuse of comedy and sarcasm when it comes to any Germans or Austrians at a large corporation publicly using comedy and satire to demonstrate their racist and anti-Semitic beliefs. The Germans and Austrians lost all their give-them-some-slack-comedy credit-they-were-only-joking once those nations engaged in the Holocaust, which occurred when my grandparents and parents were alive. I know people whose entire families were murdered in the Holocaust and some who survived the concentration camps as young children. Go travel to Germany and Poland and visit the concentration camps where Jews were exterminated like worthless insects, grow a backbone, get some character and grow the fvck up. Don’t cowardly defend this disgusting company, boycott Behringer!
...and the day after they also removed this post. I have had enough with Behringer.Behringer:
“Please allow me to respond to the video we had published today. For the past 20 years, Peter Kirn and Behringer have had an ‘interesting’ relationship to say the least.
What was meant as pure satire by our marketing department, has clearly offended some people and looking at the video, I could understand why. However, in no way did the team ever intend to make any connection to semitism, as some people have alleged.
We unreservedly apologize to Peter and anyone who felt offended.
Uli”
He forgot how the Chinese love the Uighers, and how they also love the Japanese. And, how central and western Europe loved the Mongols, or, how the Spanish loved the peaceful liberation in 711, on and on and on. By the way, he also forgot to mention that Canadians are polite and peaceful people of the world, and if you disagree with that premise, they barrage you with Timbits. [tongue in cheek]1.) I don't think I saw anyone in the entire thread defending Behringer
2.) Many of us are simply pointing out that it's not anti semetic.
3.) You also just lobbed actual racist beliefs against people from 2 countries.
4.) There is a whole lot more " hatred, envy, jealousy, bigotry, shallowness, narcissism, racism, anti-semitism, and prejudice" when you go out of your way to see it in everything.
5.) Nice of you to "censor" the "F" word with a single character while also calling people names and making prejudice statements based on literally on nationality. Might be time to go take a walk, look into a mirror, eat lunch, or whatever you need to do in order to calm down.
...a large corporation publicly using comedy and satire to demonstrate their racist and anti-Semitic beliefs.
and if you disagree with that premise, they barrage you with Timbits.
Visit a Holocaust Museum.
When a group of people say that something is offensive to them, it's really not a good look to argue with them.
And, for those who say this has nothing to do with anti-semitism and is only about some Pinocchio liar liar pants on fire reference. It’s highly inappropriate for a major company to be attacking an individual journalist in that way too having nothing to do with racism. There is no way one can examine what Behringer did as a good thing. It’s horrible business and completely inappropriate behavior for a company to engage in.
I haven't for a minute ever thought it was UNintentionally anti-Semitic. How hard is it for people see that it's Pinocchio? I really don't see how it could be mistaken for anything else unless you already despise Behringer and you need more reason to justify it.You're clearly assuming Behringer's satire was intentionally anti-Semitic.
I think your replies are a whole lot more offensive and insulting than the whole Behringer thing.If they did nothing wrong then why did Behringer remove it and apologize? If you can’t realize how utterly inappropriate it was for Behringer to engage in these type of tropes and attacks on a journalist then you’ve got some major problems. Attacking a journalist directly is just not appropriate for any corporation to do. It’s incredibly petty and small minded. Clearly, Behringer disagrees with your stupidity and lack of character.
You can’t possible know. So why are you defending a German company that very well may have engaged in an anti-Semitic attack?
Unfortunately, we live in an era that public figures (and many others) are not allowed to make any mistakes ever. Now or in the distant past. The intolerance all across the political spectrum is staggering and disheartening.So what? He makes mistakes like all of us.
How hard is it for people see that it's Pinocchio? I really don't see how it could be mistaken for anything else unless you already despise Behringer and you need more reason to justify it.
Unfortunately, we live in an era that public figures (and many others) are not allowed to make any mistakes ever. Now or in the distant past. The intolerance all across the political spectrum is staggering and disheartening.
I hadn't heard about this one, but I remember a female reporter saying that Kobe Bryant played for the Los Angeles Nakers (she was about to say Knicks and switched gears mid-word) and people accused her of saying the N word. There's a petition to get her fired with over a hundred thousand signatures. I don't think the network listened this time, but they easily could have.Do you or anyone else remember what happened to meteorologist Jeremy Kappell a couple years ago? He meant to say "Martin Luther King Junior Day", but his tongue got tied up in the delivery, and in correcting himself, it came out "Martin Luther Kuhrn King Junior Day." Enough people made a clamor saying that he called MLK a "coon" and as a result, he was fired from his job. All because of a mistake that every other human being on earth makes from time to time.
This is what some of the comments in this thread remind me of. A company admittedly makes a boneheaded mistake, but the mistake gets blown way out of proportion and context, and the torches come out wanting to burn the company to the ground. Pitiful.
Yeah, the thing is, if people demand perfection, then no one qualifies for anything simply because it is human nature to make mistakes and do dumb things.Unfortunately, we live in an era that public figures (and many others) are not allowed to make any mistakes ever. Now or in the distant past. The intolerance all across the political spectrum is staggering and disheartening.
Anybody here old enough to remember what happened to the Bee Gees in the late 1970s with the song "Too much Heaven". The line went "oh, you and me girl", but of course the easily offended cancel culture of that era eventually led Jesse Jackson to intervene on the band's behalf. Often people see AND hear what they want as an alternative fact instead of the truth.I hadn't heard about this one, but I remember a female reporter saying that Kobe Bryant played for the Los Angeles Nakers (she was about to say Knicks and switched gears mid-word) and people accused her of saying the N word. There's a petition to get her fired with over a hundred thousand signatures. I don't think the network listened this time, but they easily could have.