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Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech
He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.
Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.
That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.
At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.
Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.
Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.
The Shawshank Redemption flopped in theaters, $16 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, opening weekend just $727,000 in 1994, it disappeared almost immediately.
It lost all seven Oscar nominations to Forrest Gump, no awards, no box office, the studio labeled it a failure and the director walked away devastated.
Then something quiet started happening, VHS rentals, cable reruns, someone watching it alone on a Tuesday night and calling a friend the next morning.
People who watched it told their friends, their friends told more people, it spread slowly, one recommendation at a time, no marketing push just genuine word of mouth.
By 2008 it reached number one on IMDb, the audience voted it the greatest film ever made and it has stayed there ever since.
It took 14 years to get there, a box office bomb turned into the highest rated film in history, built entirely by viewers long after the studio had already moved on.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr on when a players wife taunted him with “Da Bluejays Lose”
(Translated by Master Flip)
I still remember that moment during the Seattle series. As I was walking past a group of family members, one of the women yelled right next to me, loud and proud: “Da Blue Jays lose!” They were up 3-2 in the series at the time, cocky as hell. All I could think was, Winners get to have the fun.
I had my headphones on, pretending to listen to music, I wasn’t actually playing anything, just trying to stay in my own head. She said it so boldly, right there beside me, “Da Bluejays Lose” and the group erupted in cheers behind her. I even knew exactly who she was and whose wife she was.
I was walking with Giménez at the time. I leaned over and told him quietly, They don’t know they’re heading into the Valley of Death.
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