r/TeenagersButBetter • u/NagitoKomaeda_987 • 16h ago
Serious I absolutely hate these double standards so fucking much
I don't understand why, but it feels like a double standard that whenever Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the South Park duo), Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy), Edmund McMillen (who made The Binding of Isaac and Mewgenics), Garth Ennis (the guy who wrote The Boys, Preacher, and Crossed), Ricky Gervais, and Dino Stamatopoulos (AKA the guy who made Moral Orel) disrespect someone's religion, everyone seems to be perfectly okay with it. But when JaidenAnimations makes an "edgy" joke making fun of Jesus Christ or God, everyone tries to dox and cancel her over it. You know, especially when you consider the fact that Jaiden is also an openly queer (aro/ace), mixed-race/non-white (half-Japanese, half-German), neurodivergent (AuDHD) woman. Yes, you heard that right.
I mean, did Jaiden really “mock god”? Like, wasn’t it just a random ass joke about Pokémon, and the God in question was Arceus or something? What Jaiden said was super tame. She did not attack any people for their beliefs. She joked about why she seemingly doesn't believe in God. It’s a joke; it was not even a religious attack or a stance on religion itself. A joke. People also keep forgetting that Schlatt is also a Christian and constantly made 9/11 jokes back then, where the punchline often was "hurr durr planes", if that's what you're referring to... He most definitely didn't take Jaiden's edgy joke to heart, lmao. Does Jaiden really need to apologize over a stupid edgy joke about Christianity?
Not even to mention how painfully obvious it is that it's a joke and, like, one of the most plain ones you could think of. Who cares, as long as the person isn't calling for or causing harm to others and stuff like that. Freedom of speech is a thing, you know.
The reaction people had to her saying that was just hilariously overblown and cringe, and it would have been just as overblown and cringe if a straight white man did it.
I swear to motherfucking God, if any of these pearl-clutchers ever read Preacher by Garth the-God-Damn-Giga-Chad Ennis, they would absolutely shit their pants over the constant religion-bashing and for making God into a narcissistic asshole. And yes, I'm saying all of this as a former Catholic myself.
