The Importance of Defensiveness

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There is this thing where like get over you know like oh stop being such a hypersensitive and now it's just about to eat any number of lack of intensive terms to complete that sentence. making a real philosophers distinction there in a way that I've not heard you not heard you make before I propose that theory. If somebody were to say you know what man that Bulgarian man joke really offended me because my cousins roommate is Bulgarian and he's from Maine I'd be like shut the f*** up dude. Even if they do feel it then kind of fuck up, says Michael Sergeant. "The life is short but you know I'll give you an example of the opposite"

In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.

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