Reaction to Steve Martin's Tweet about Carrie Fisher is why Trump won

ooover wrote:

Lee, Bruce wrote:

At what point in the day were you offended enough by that fact that you came on Letsrun to complain about it.

There is a timestamp on every post so why are you asking that? What point are you trying to make?

He means you woke up and were offended by this. I'm sure you won't be offended by being called "retarded."

optout wrote:

I think Carrie Fisher would've liked his tweet just fine. Liberal lady here.

I would have liked it if someone had said that about me. Even if it was a gay who tweeted it.

People have always been offended at illogical things. The problem is that they now have a platform (social media) to bully people into submission. It has given SJW's a method to try to move the goalposts.

I'm confused. Who is more offended? Liberals or conservatives?

I've always been fairly liberal and I was offended the first time I heard the term 'politically correct.'

Who's to judge what is politically correct?

The guy's tweet simply followed the chronology in which things happen in real life. When you first see someone, you know whether they are physically attractive to you, but you don't know whether they are smart. Once you've spent sufficient time with the person, you decide whether or not you think they are smart.

Not sure why recounting these events in the order they actually occur is a problem.

Liberals are more educated and make more money and aren't racist/sexist morons so try again. Stupid f@cks like yourself who whined for 8 years and now aren't going to have shit for 4 years because they handed it to the 1 percent.

I think some Americans have a jaundiced idea of what 'liberal' means!

I would consider myself to be liberal with a small l, but it is synonymous with tolerance, democracy and fairness.

I have no problem with Steve Martin's tweet, and I'm often telling women I know that they look great or sexy and think nothing of it. And I don't know anyone amongst my circle of friends that would find anything offensive about what he said.

It's outrageous that anyone put pressure on him to delete his tweet.

It's equally silly to blame it on liberals. That's like saying, if any terrorist that commits a crime in the name of religion, we should blame all religion.

There will always be people who are looking to find something to criticise or be offended by. That is an unfortunate fact of life. It doesn't mean they are religiously or politically the same! That's ridiculous.

I don't pretend to know as much about American society as the Americans that post on here. All I can say is that as an outsider, I am in the vast majority of people who have been holding their heads and wondering what on earth the Americans were thinking of in voting Trump!

Perhaps many voted as a protest at what they perceive is liberalism, but I can assure you that this perception is nothing to do with what liberalism actually stands for as far as I see it.

Yes, there is an issue with so called, "political correctness', going too far, but that is not the same as being liberal.

that's how it works wrote:

The guy's tweet simply followed the chronology in which things happen in real life. When you first see someone, you know whether they are physically attractive to you, but you don't know whether they are smart. Once you've spent sufficient time with the person, you decide whether or not you think they are smart.

Not sure why recounting these events in the order they actually occur is a problem.

Even more so when the person is a movie or TV star. How are you to judge their intelligence when they are acting?

Stick with eharmony wrote:

000 wrote:

It seems that some folks wake up and look for things to be offended by.

^this....

Further proof liberals are ruining America

Ditto 1000x

Attention SJWs and liberal snowflakes:

Political correctness is the sharia law of the western hemisphere insidiously eroding our free speech with consequences. Furthermore, being offended isn't an argument. It is a confession that you are ruled by emotion. It is a confession that you do not know how to think.

crowdvetting wrote:

Lee, Bruce wrote:

At what point in the day were you offended enough by that fact that you came on Letsrun to complain about it.

Good observation of obvious hypocrisy. I'm sure "000" doesn't even see the irony of his post.

Repubtards wake up daily looking for a reason to be offended. This thread is proof.

Not really. How many Republicans and centrists do you know who have ever attended a cry-in or a safe space?

Personally, I don't click on these threads because I'm offended. I click on them because SJWs are comic gold and it's funny to watch them self-destruct and crack jokes at their expense.

Additionally, as a former liberal, turned conservative, it is my hope that other centrist liberals will realize that their party is the one catering to the greatest number of nut-jobs.

Deer OP, I'm going to allow this gentleman below to explain why your opinions have no relevance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilCmywMin8I

Missing the point wrote:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/30/carrie-fisher-strikes-back-at-haters-youthbeautyrnot-accomplishments/?utm_term=.8fcb0fbdade4

Who knows but seems unlikely what she went thru after The Force Awakens that she would have loved the tweet but I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Carrie Fisher wasn't really all THAT beautiful looks wise. Martin was probably remembering the gold bikini more than anything and hence why he took the tweet down vs trying to explain it.

Doubtful he's remembering her in the manner you describe... they were both in the SNL sphere from the late 70's early 80's, as she was engaged to both Dan Aykroyd and Paul Simon, eventually marrying the latter. No doubt he met her long before the gold bikini scene.

Loper wrote:

I am not a Trump supporter, but that is why Trump won.

I'm pretty fast but even I have to say that I am impressed that you have managed the time travel trick. How did you do it?

Loper wrote:

I am not a Trump supporter, but that is why Trump won.

Editor's addition. Martin's tweet was as follows, �When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well.�

It is really not that hard, Loper. There are many many reasons Trump won. A celebrity's view of another celebrity's assets -- or anyone's response to those comments -- don't strike me as being high on the list.

Loper wrote:

tell us more wrote:

Well in that case I would have to agree with Loper.

Yeah there comes a point where people feel they cannot express themselves as some people's sensibilities may be offended some way, somehow, maybe because they weren't loved enough as children and every little comment can be twisted like a pretzel into a disparagement regardless of how nonsensical it all is. I am sure I have just offended those who find run-on sentences utterly unpalatable.

So so true.

I don't think Carrie Fisher was doing much in the late 70s besides college and then dropping out once she landed Star Wars in '77 when she was all of 19. Martin was 11-12 years older than her so if they met "long before" that he found an underage minor the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Gold bikini was on the cover of Rolling Stone in '83. Commenting on someone being sexy at a bar and mentioning that as the first thing you remember about someone after they died are completely different things. Was anyone saying after Ali died how drop dead gorgeous he was and then they realized he could throw a punch too. Or they were mesmerized by Prince's eye and then oh gee looks like he knows his way around a guitar.

MAGA mindset wrote:

Political correctness is the sharia law of the western hemisphere insidiously eroding our free speech with consequences.

I'm legitimately interested in how your free speech has been eroded. Please elaborate.

DrPepper wrote:

MAGA mindset wrote:

Political correctness is the sharia law of the western hemisphere insidiously eroding our free speech with consequences.

I'm legitimately interested in how your free speech has been eroded. Please elaborate.

Steve Martin cannot call a pretty girl "pretty" without getting hassled by the court of public opinion.