AIB Knock Out:I Accuse Us

I am all for free speech.I am also for the right to get offended. And I don't seek to curtail either. 

So what is my problem. Is it that a bunch of stand up comedians collaborated with another bunch of A-listers(that's what they like to call themselves) to come with a bunch a crass jokes. That's an unfair argument. Simply because the so called bunch of stand up comedians have quite a following, the bunch of A -listers are no less that role models and the bunch of crass jokes managed to raise ₹40 lakhs in just under 2 hours. Obviously, people bought what they sold.So let's just stop being hypocritical about some abstract values and accept that a large number of us liked it. 

Then what is my problem. Is it that the roast was offensive. But hey, in all fairness there were enough and more warnings that what would follow would be offensive. If one still persisted on with watching the whole of it, then it was completely believing in one's own highly offence-immune capabilities. Why blame others, If you can't live up to your own standards.

So then what is my problem. Is it that a completely different bunch of enlightened souls took exception to what was said during the roast and they have assumed the mantle of delivering us, the lesser beings from the horror of listening to what they were subjected to(by their own free will,mind you). I don't need to be patronised by you sirs. And I for sure don't need lessons from you on what our values are. The world is an open school and I learn my own lessons. So did the ones who went about lowering the bar of humour and so did you sirs-sole protectors of the ancient mystic Indian value system. 

So what then is my problem.I stand to accuse us. I accuse us of exploitation, all of us-stand up comedians, A-listers value preservers, the offender and the offended. I accuse us of exploiting our right to freedom to offend others. I accuse us of exploiting our right to get offended to oppress everything that we do not like. I accuse us of exploiting society's tolerance to stretch it to its limits. I accuse us of exploiting people's discomfort with explicit humour to further our made up value systems. There are no Abel's in the story. There are no victims. We all stand accused. Stop exploiting freedom. Or else, someday freedom shall rebel, it shall withdraw itself . And then, perhaps we will think. If only we were a bit more human to our freedom, if only we did not exploit it so much...