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In reply to the discussion: Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,303 posts)53. He could do with examining his own hypocrisy
From later in the interview:
Bourdain: There's just so much. I hate the term political correctness, the way in which speech that is found to be unpleasant or offensive is often banned from universities. Which is exactly where speech that is potentially hurtful and offensive should be heard.
The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that's exactly what comedians should be doing, offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there, like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you're a comedian whose bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I find racist and offensive, I won't buy tickets to your show or watch you on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I'm not going to try to put you out of work. I'm not going to start a boycott, or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.
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Bisley: In your new cookbook, Appetites, you have a section called "Big Fucking Steak." In Kitchen Confidential, you wrote this about vegetarians: "To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."
Bourdain: I can certainly eat vegetarian food in India for a considerable period of time. They actually make good vegetarian dishes. Appetites is a representation of how I cook at home, and my personal preferences, and doesn't pretend to be anything other than that.
The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that's exactly what comedians should be doing, offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there, like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you're a comedian whose bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I find racist and offensive, I won't buy tickets to your show or watch you on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I'm not going to try to put you out of work. I'm not going to start a boycott, or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.
...
Bisley: In your new cookbook, Appetites, you have a section called "Big Fucking Steak." In Kitchen Confidential, you wrote this about vegetarians: "To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."
Bourdain: I can certainly eat vegetarian food in India for a considerable period of time. They actually make good vegetarian dishes. Appetites is a representation of how I cook at home, and my personal preferences, and doesn't pretend to be anything other than that.
So, he hates the term "political correctness" (which is, of course, used by the right wing against liberals, but somehow he includes it in his answer to "what's wrong with liberals" . He stands up, in a oh-so-Reason Magazine fashion, for complete freedom of speech, even if racist or offensive, saying people should just not watch it if they don't like it, and drawing attention to it with a hashtag is wrong. As far as he's concerned, drawing attention to racism is wrong, and he'll just wait for people to decide on their own that racism is wrong, even if that takes many generations if people won't talk about it to each other.
Then he writes a fucking book calling vegetarians " the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit". No, Mr. Bourdain, no fucking double standard there at all. You claim it's your "personal preferences", but you're publishing your insults in a fucking book. You are pretending to be a libertarian when interviews by a libertarian magazine, when it's just your own prejudices showing through.
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Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]
FarCenter
Dec 2016
OP
Anyone who is willing to destroy the country due to hurt feelings deserves the condescension.
LonePirate
Dec 2016
#2
And the far end of the spectrum of rhetoric coming from Trumpist Dumbfuckistan, people get killed.
baldguy
Dec 2016
#22
The real irony here is that the right-wingers scream about 'special snowflakes wanting safe spaces'
LeftishBrit
Dec 2016
#72
Another white or rich liberal who can afford Benedict Donald... why listen to these people?
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#7
The fact the term 'working-class' has been hijacked by the right and the left keeps using it
nini
Dec 2016
#9
"The contempt is not for the 'working-class' but those who voted with their racism, homophobia..."
Different Drummer
Dec 2016
#73
do you have any polling data to support your assertion? If not, I would
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2016
#49
I clicked on this thread intending to reply "You mean yourself, you smug asshole?"
Iggo
Dec 2016
#35
Bourdain is assuming everyone is like him. He is an extreme elitist. I doubt he thinks any of us
stevenleser
Dec 2016
#38
I have contempt for stupid, racist, hate-filled people regardless of whatever the hell they are.
BlueStater
Dec 2016
#50
There's some parts of the South where I suspect he'd get his ass kicked...
Buckeye_Democrat
Dec 2016
#56
I might point out to Anthony that if it wasn't for "privileged Eastern liberals," the people he is
Vinca
Dec 2016
#62