(11-29-2022, 02:54 PM)martyup Wrote:(11-29-2022, 11:39 AM)burger Wrote: Bigotry and homophobia are unacceptable, too. The halftime show was the best kind of trolling because you can tell who is on the right and wrong sides of history by their response to it. Anyone who doesn't understand what the band was doing needs to do some reading on the Mormon church's history with regard to LGBT people.
So you're saying that the intention of the skit was not to be funny but to highlight BYU's history of discrimination? Isn't that worse?
Are you also saying that those that didn't get the joke, or otherwise embrace the skit, are homophobes, bigots, and/or ignorant of history?
If you browse around the ex-mormon communities online, they clearly got the message. Just because you didn't get it doesn't mean that it was badly done.
Quote:Are you also saying that those that didn't get the joke, or otherwise embrace the skit, are homophobes, bigots, and/or ignorant of history?No, I'm saying that if you condemn the band but not BYU (where any overt same-sex romantic behavior is banned) and its parent institution, your priorities are f'd up. Bigotry is wrong. Condemning (or making fun of) bigotry is good. eom.