Tasteless Or Topical?
Yesterday the Sunday Times printed a very dark cartoon on its main op-ed pages, drawn by Gerald Scarfe.
Channel 4 News technology correspondent Ben Cohen said that ‘mass murder seems more than a little inappropriate for parody‘ and promptly kicked off a fierce online debate about it.
TheEye thinks that it is an inspired re-imagining of the mental anguish, terror and helplessness shown in the original and that makes it rather brilliant.
…and that Ben Cohen should wind his smug prissy over-sensitive neck in and shut up.
I agree with The Eye. If the Norwegians are upset about I’m sure we’ll hear, it doesn’t need to be presumed on their behalf by some offence-seeking English media twat.
There’s *always* someone who is keen to take offence for you even when you don’t care about something yourself.
It took Harman’s Equalities Act to actually enshrine the idea of 3rd party offence into law though. Which is why it must be repealled.