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Title: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 26, 2014, 07:38:14 pm
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-daily-show-one-direction-terrorism-20140926-htmlstory.html (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-daily-show-one-direction-terrorism-20140926-htmlstory.html)

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One Direction fans are a famously passionate bunch, known for strenuously defending the floppy-haired boy band from any and all critics.  Now they're directing their outrage at an unlikely target: "The Daily Show."

In a segment Tuesday night about the proliferation of terrorist groups in the Middle East, correspondent Jessica Williams joked about a new "supergroup" consisting of "one member each from ISIS, El Nusra, Al Qaeda, Hamas, One Direction and the Zetas drug cartel."

Though it was an off-hand quip that played off the absurd idea of the pop group being tied to terrorism, it has Directioners more worked up than Harry Styles' relationship with Taylor Swift.

They point to the fact that one of the members of the group, the dreamy Zayn Malik, is of Pakistani descent and is a practicing Muslim -- one who was once even accused of "pimping Islam" to his admirers by a blogger on the far right. 

Although it's highly unlikely "The Daily Show" writers were actually suggesting that Malik -- or any of the One Direction gang -- is actually involved in Islamic extremism, the bit has triggered a viral  backlash reminiscent of the #CancelColbert controversy that erupted this spring following a "Colbert Report" segment lampooning Asian stereotypes.

Fans have registered their outrage on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks using the hashtags #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar, #ZaynSavesNotKills, and #ZaynDefenseSquad, all of which were trending as of Friday morning.

I don’t give a shit about One Direction, but their fans….what in the name of Christ is wrong with their fans?!
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on September 26, 2014, 07:44:42 pm
Young teenage girls, that's what. Most annoying creatures in the universe.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: I am lizard on September 26, 2014, 10:38:06 pm
Young teenagers, that's what. Most annoying creatures in the universe.
FTFY
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on September 26, 2014, 10:51:11 pm
Young teenage lizards in heat, that's what. Most annoying creatures in the universe.
FTFY
Double FTFY.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: solar. on September 26, 2014, 11:17:30 pm
They're just butthurt because Zayn did 9/11.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on September 26, 2014, 11:20:12 pm
*checks his watch, takes a drink, goes back to reading Reddit*
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Damen on September 26, 2014, 11:22:53 pm
Hmm. Its like scientologists, but with pimples.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Art Vandelay on September 26, 2014, 11:40:07 pm
If I may paraphrase One Direction themselves. You don't know you're drooling morons. That's what makes you drooling morons.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: ironbite on September 27, 2014, 12:34:08 am
Amazing...simply amazing.

Ironbite-they think this will do anything but make John Stewart giggle like a schoolgirl.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Askold on September 27, 2014, 03:29:18 am
Teenage mutant ninja turtles, that's what. Most radical creatures in the universe.
FTFY
Double FTFY.
Triple FTFY.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: TheUnknown on September 27, 2014, 04:07:37 am
So, I searched tags on tumblr, and:

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ohn Stewart did know about zayns religion. He had to know other wise why would he ever even bring up one direction and terrorism? You don’t have to be a 12 year old girl to know how to respect people. how shitty of a World do we live in to know People care more About money than Respect. It’s beyond fucked up considering zayn delt with racism and terrorist comments his whole life. It’s not even about a boy band. It’s about being a human being.

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They dismiss us as a joke because they can’t contemplate the amount of power we have and how much we can change the world with it.

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(https://33.media.tumblr.com/93a65305e271868c11e746d6e6a83e0b/tumblr_ncj6vau70x1s7qdpeo1_500.png)

I’M STILL PISSED. SO, IF ZAYN’S NOT FAMOUS, YOU WOULDN’T DARE TO APOLOGIZE? IS THAT IT? AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW THE BAND’S RELIGION, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN INCLUDE THE BAND’S NAME IN THE LIST OF THOSE YOU MENTION AS TERRORIST?

(https://38.media.tumblr.com/c123ed31ee36de20912b93ede3798b19/tumblr_ncj59t8OWd1splqx4o1_500.jpg)

Almost every place I've seen this is reporting it like the Daily Show targeted Zayne specifically, even though, from what I've just read, the joke didn't mention any band member by name.  It's all a bunch of conjecturing, and apparently the One Direction fans are unaware that the band has a been the butt of a ton of jokes for a long time.  And I saw a comment somewhere else that pointed out that automatically assuming Zayn was the target of the joke because he's Pakistani is, itself, racist.

Also, someone claimed that, once again, racism against Native Americans has gone invisible by sjws, who don't give enough of a shit about them.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: ironbite on September 27, 2014, 04:39:36 am
Power to change the world huh?  I see someone thinks tumblr actually does shit.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: niam2023 on September 27, 2014, 05:16:15 am
How laughable - these pimply little fangirls think angrily blogging will solve anything.

Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 27, 2014, 12:00:40 pm
If it was a Muslim thing, why would they even mention the Zetas cartel? Or am I being too naive by expecting them to both read past "One Direction" and know who the Zetas are?
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Igor on September 27, 2014, 12:20:26 pm
Huh. You know, I didn't think there was that much overlap between people who watch The Daily Show and people who listen to One Direction o.0
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 27, 2014, 01:31:57 pm
They are both very large groups, overlap is more or less inevitable
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Nemo on September 28, 2014, 05:58:26 pm
Let's just assume for a moment this was about some pop star's religion. It isn't, but let's pretend. So what? Jon Stewart has mocked other religions in the past. In fact, after an episode of South Park got banned, the Daily Show actually played several clips of him mocking other religions (although, I'm pretty sure most of them were faked). And the Daily Show has taken shots at other icons of teenage culture, like Twilight. I remember there was a period where they made Team ________ jokes constantly.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: ironbite on September 29, 2014, 12:46:43 am
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Ghoti on September 29, 2014, 01:19:23 am
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!
This whole thing is Bielibers v Supernatural cast round two, except somehow even less worthy of attention.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on September 29, 2014, 04:16:40 pm
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!

I read that as super sentai and got confused.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: niam2023 on September 29, 2014, 04:42:59 pm
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!

I read that as super sentai and got confused.
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Now I have this image in my head of the floppy haired boyband fighting some evil emperor and his legion of monsters that he strangely only sends down one at a time.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on September 29, 2014, 05:08:01 pm
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!

I read that as super sentai and got confused.

Now I have this image in my head of the floppy haired boyband fighting some evil emperor and his legion of monsters that he strangely only sends down one at a time.
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Well most sentai actors are idols/pretty boys so you're not far off....
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on September 29, 2014, 07:52:03 pm
BUT THIS IS ONE DIRECTION!  IT'S SUPER SEIREL!

I read that as super sentai and got confused.

Now I have this image in my head of the floppy haired boyband fighting some evil emperor and his legion of monsters that he strangely only sends down one at a time.

Well most sentai actors are idols/pretty boys so you're not far off....
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I dunno, I'd watch it, but I'm also not caught up on ToQger...
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: ironbite on September 30, 2014, 12:42:45 am
Here I'll catch you up on ToQger

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Ironbite-you're caught up.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 30, 2014, 03:35:56 am
...I don't know what I was expecting.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: niam2023 on September 30, 2014, 04:32:54 am
One Direction Sentai!

After one thousand years, Enraged Emperor Rhythmus is released from the Sealing Guitar ancient musical mystics sealed him in! Now aiming to take over the world by corrupting the world's teenagers into becoming his disposable army, only one group can stand against Rhythmus and his Four Symphonic Generals! Go Sentai DirectGer!
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on September 30, 2014, 03:39:44 pm
Here I'll catch you up on ToQger

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Ironbite-you're caught up.

Technically he appears next week but...

One Direction Sentai!

After one thousand years, Enraged Emperor Rhythmus is released from the Sealing Guitar ancient musical mystics sealed him in! Now aiming to take over the world by corrupting the world's teenagers into becoming his disposable army, only one group can stand against Rhythmus and his Four Symphonic Generals! Go Sentai DirectGer!

Well we've had music as a secondary theme before *looks at Kyoruger*, then there was Kakuranger and the rockstar villain Junior....
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on September 30, 2014, 05:45:54 pm
Kill that thing with fire.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on September 30, 2014, 08:18:32 pm
Now I wanna go back and watch Kyoruger too... I know what I'm doing this weekend!
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: ironbite on October 01, 2014, 01:02:02 am
Yes go watch Zyuden Sentai Daigoranger.

Ironbite-also catch up on Gaim.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 01, 2014, 05:08:29 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on October 01, 2014, 06:06:27 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.

I'm an ep behind on Gaim, had trouble aligning schedules with my watching partner. Need to catch up on Buddyfight too, even if you could make a drinking game out of how often Toccata and Fugue gets played.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 01, 2014, 06:19:23 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.

I'm an ep behind on Gaim, had trouble aligning schedules with my watching partner. Need to catch up on Buddyfight too, even if you could make a drinking game out of how often Toccata and Fugue gets played.

Or how often the word "Buddy" is used.

Or how Gao pulls a win out of his arse despite the odds or the drama.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on October 02, 2014, 03:55:02 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.

I'm an ep behind on Gaim, had trouble aligning schedules with my watching partner. Need to catch up on Buddyfight too, even if you could make a drinking game out of how often Toccata and Fugue gets played.

Or how often the word "Buddy" is used.

Or how Gao pulls a win out of his arse despite the odds or the drama.

Those are expected due to genre conventions. Abuse of Bach on an organ isn't.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 02, 2014, 05:02:01 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.

I'm an ep behind on Gaim, had trouble aligning schedules with my watching partner. Need to catch up on Buddyfight too, even if you could make a drinking game out of how often Toccata and Fugue gets played.

Or how often the word "Buddy" is used.

Or how Gao pulls a win out of his arse despite the odds or the drama.

Those are expected due to genre conventions. Abuse of Bach on an organ isn't.

Gao doesn't have a single loss under his belt.

At a similar point in time, Yami Yugi had more than one loss.

Seriously, Gao just can't seem to lose, no matter the skill of his opponent.

The closest thing that can be called a loss is when he acted like an asshole in a match, which was also the one time he won on the first dang turn.

And now he's mastering multiple types of decks, too.

Don't get me wrong, I like this show, but it's getting hard to KEEP liking it.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on October 02, 2014, 05:04:39 pm
I'm caught up on Gaim, actually.  ... I do need to go back and catch the last few episodes of Buddyfight, though.

I'm an ep behind on Gaim, had trouble aligning schedules with my watching partner. Need to catch up on Buddyfight too, even if you could make a drinking game out of how often Toccata and Fugue gets played.

Or how often the word "Buddy" is used.

Or how Gao pulls a win out of his arse despite the odds or the drama.

Those are expected due to genre conventions. Abuse of Bach on an organ isn't.

Gao doesn't have a single loss under his belt.

At a similar point in time, Yami Yugi had more than one loss.

Seriously, Gao just can't seem to lose, no matter the skill of his opponent.

The closest thing that can be called a loss is when he acted like an asshole in a match, which was also the one time he won on the first dang turn.

And now he's mastering multiple types of decks, too.

Don't get me wrong, I like this show, but it's getting hard to KEEP liking it.

I've sat through YGO Zexal (where the protagonist wasn't allowed to lose to anyone bar the designated rival because the plot would break otherwise)....I'm willing to forgive a lot that's better than that so....
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 02, 2014, 05:24:48 pm
I guess.

It's just that I stopped watching last week's episode halfway through, and I can't seem to find the will to load it up and continue where I left off :/
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: niam2023 on October 02, 2014, 08:21:05 pm
I continued watching Zexal, and got one hell of an Evangelion of a plot during the "Barian" Arc...
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: starseeker on October 03, 2014, 01:31:22 pm
I continued watching Zexal, and got one hell of an Evangelion of a plot during the "Barian" Arc...

Oh yes, it goes completely mad there and only gets weirder.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 03, 2014, 06:49:45 pm
I guess.

It's just that I stopped watching last week's episode halfway through, and I can't seem to find the will to load it up and continue where I left off :/

Not even Axia's able to keep you interested? oh dear...
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 03, 2014, 08:53:47 pm
I guess.

It's just that I stopped watching last week's episode halfway through, and I can't seem to find the will to load it up and continue where I left off :/

Not even Axia's able to keep you interested? oh dear...

Axia bailed for awhile.
Title: Re: #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 03, 2014, 11:12:18 pm
Double oh dear...