Colin Moriarty is leaving Kinda Funny Games.

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I just have the opinion that a joke is a joke and everybody should be able make on each equally no matter the gender.

ok you seem to have trouble grasping a simple concept so i'll break it down:

some genders have privilege. well, one gender. men. just men. straight white cisgender (non-transgender) men, to be precise.

other genders, like, say, women, and non-binary peeps, do not have privilege. they are what we call "oppressed".

when a person with privilege makes a racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist/etc joke to someone without privilege, it's called punching down. and if i have to explain to you why punching down is bad then you're beyond all hope
 
He is merely conservative. Not alt right in the slightest. No one has submitted any evidence of the sort asides from a random stupid joke that the majority of males in the world, left or right, have probably stated.

I think the issue is you are taking the joke out of proportion rather than me trivializing it.

I gave you a response earlier showing Colin calling Bannon "smart".
 
He is merely conservative. Not alt right in the slightest. No one has submitted any evidence of the sort asides from a random stupid joke that the majority of males in the world, left or right, have probably stated.

I think the issue is you are taking the joke out of proportion rather than me trivializing it.

Yeah, I'd consider Colin to be a pretty "liberal" "conservative." Anyone who thinks that he's the "nazi fascist" type hasn't been out much.
 
This thread...

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Y'know, you'd think this...but from his radio appearance with Glenn beck earlier today:

Again though...he didn't say it's "not sexist", just that it's not offensive. He doesn't view sexism as being offensive and neither do a lot of people who follow him, and that's where the divide is between Colin and the rest of the guys. He wants to be able to keep saying sexist stuff that he and his followers think is okay, and the rest of the guys don't want their followers to be offended by, or subject to his sexist views so they decided to part ways, even if the KF guys didn't really find what Colin was saying to be offensive. That's basically what they've been saying ad nauseam for the last two hours.
 
You really shouldn't be saying that when you are completely unaware of his work beyond a tweet.
Cloukyo knows exactly what she's doing. She made it clear in other threads about this that she's on the side of "people just can't take a joke!"
how are yall any better than colin then?
I don't tell sexist jokes and go on bigoted screeds about how privilege doesn't exist, for one thing.
 
What's your problem with junior members
Some users view juniors coming out of the woodwork with little posts to be alt accounts of other users. The posts about them are almost a meme at this point. It has happened on occasion in the past. There has also been some hilarious account suicides by juniors in times gone past.
 
Holy crap. In that case I will need to memorize other "days" so I don't offend someone.

http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/

There is an alternative: don't make shitty sexist jokes.

Again though...he didn't say it's "not sexist", just that it's not offensive. He doesn't view sexism as being offensive and neither do a lot of people who follow him, and that's where the divide is between Colin and the rest of the guys. He wants to be able to keep saying sexist stuff that he and his followers think is okay, and the rest of the guys don't want their followers to be offended by, or subject to his sexist views so they decided to part ways, even if the KF guys didn't really find what Colin was saying to be offensive. That's basically what they've been saying ad nauseam for the last two hours.

Good point.
 
The response to this might change depending upon where you live/work. Colin would be a beacon of progressivism at my employer so I don't think he'd have much of an issue. Shit, dude is probably a few ticks left of 70% of the people I deal with on a daily basis.

I work in NYC construction and had to chuckle a little as well. You're more likely to get a bonus check from the Union.
 
Holy crap. In that case I will need to memorize other "days" so I don't offend someone.

http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/

There's a very helpful hashtag right in the tweet which provides more than enough context for you to understand if you click it or google it. I've seen you defend this tweet as 'not sexist', while ignoring all of the red flags about how sexist and disrespectful it was. Speaks volumes!
 
God forbid people are happy they won't have to suffer his at times bigoted rhetoric anymore! If I'm an asshole, so be it. Good riddance

What a world we live in, where a shitty joke told on social media is enough to make people feel like they're actually suffering in any way shape and form.
 
how are yall any better than colin then?
My dude, there is a chasm of a difference between bigotry and the response.

What a world we live in, where a shitty joke told on social media is enough to make people feel like they're actually suffering in any way shape and form.
You know words have multiple meanings and suffer is used as a synonym for tolerate? Right? Slip tolerate into my post there and actually respond. Or dont, continue pretending we're the assholes.
 
Judging by the comments and dislikes on their YT channel, people are standing with Colin. Which shows what I mentioned earlier that he created a toxic environment that divided the fan base and made the rest of the crew look like snakes for simply trying to run a business and not be as political. Colin forced them to be very political. They always looked uncomfortable on their political videos. Nobody really challenged him on his opinions. Politics always plays a part in our lives, but it was clear Colin was more than just a guy with an opinion. He clearly wants to be a political pundit and scholar. KF is a gaming channel.

People keep mentioning the Tweet for getting him canned. This was just the final straw. KF just wants to do a gaming and casual conversation channel. They got tired of defending his controversial opinions and non stop political opinions. I think that's more of the reason he was canned than simply "KF are liberals who are intolerant of right wing opinions."
 
I think I remember him saying something like, "He graduated from Oxford and these other universities, clearly there is some sort of intelligence in there." Not that he agrees with everything the man says? IDK.

If you know Bannon for the white supremacist that he is, giving him a compliment should be the last thing on your mind.
 
Well that sucks. There goes half my reason for watching their shows.. PS I Love You is going to suck now :\ At least Beyond is good again.
 
I just read that this is probably due to a joke he tweeted?! A bad joke is still a joke and not meant to be taken seriously.

the thing with jokes, especially when you post them on a social media platform for all to see, is that you do not get to dictate how people react to them. You don't get to control that.
 
You gotta give the guy one thing. He hasn't really changed in 15 years. The Colin on GameFAQs back then was mostly the same person. That was a different world though where Republicans were more saner.
 
This is honestly not good news for KF. I think they'll be okay for a bit but Greg & Tim aren't going to be enough to keep going. They'll have to hire another personality IMO. All things considered though, it was best for Colin to move on. He doesn't really fit with the rest of them. He looked pissed off half the time he was on there.
 
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