Jimmy Savile items

Crowqueen

RainbowDrops wrote: »

It dark humour. They're not supporting, or celebrating, these bad things. The point of dark humour to try to shock.
Not everyone's taste in humour, granted, and I wouldn't buy something like this myself.

True, but the really good jokes out there mock or ridicule the perpetrators or the feeding frenzy, not the actual victims.

There are sick Diana jokes out there, and sick jokes about celebrities who fall off roofs (viz Rod Hull - what's the betting someone will out him too?) and so on. They were to an extent the only victims of their particular tragedies and didn't take several hundred ruined lives with them when they died. But the problem with that shirt is it is making fun of the people he abused not setting him up for mockery.

I must admit I think the whole thing stinks. The worst thing for everyone, including the victims, is to let the whole thing get out of hand. It does nothing for genuine victims of abuse and persuades people to make spurious accusations about other people. Even if later disproved, allegations can write off careers. In this sort of scenario people will also throw up smokescreens to deflect attention from themselves.

It should be dealt with, litigated, taken into private courtrooms, settled and the book should be closed and the victims left in peace.

Strapped

Crowqueen wrote: »

True, but the really good jokes out there mock or ridicule the perpetrators or the feeding frenzy, not the actual victims.

There are sick Diana jokes out there, and sick jokes about celebrities who fall off roofs (viz Rod Hull - what's the betting someone will out him too?) and so on. They were to an extent the only victims of their particular tragedies and didn't take several hundred ruined lives with them when they died. But the problem with that shirt is it is making fun of the people he abused not setting him up for mockery.

I must admit I think the whole thing stinks. The worst thing for everyone, including the victims, is to let the whole thing get out of hand. It does nothing for genuine victims of abuse and persuades people to make spurious accusations about other people. Even if later disproved, allegations can write off careers. In this sort of scenario people will also throw up smokescreens to deflect attention from themselves.

It should be dealt with, litigated, taken into private courtrooms, settled and the book should be closed and the victims left in peace.

Rod Hull...now there's a good joke :silenced: