“Stop Playing My Dane Cook YouTubes During This Funeral? Who Are You, Pol Pot?”
By SEK and MZS have already said what needs to be said about Anil Dash’s defense of people being assholes in movie theaters on the merits. But like our correspondent from the top of Manhattan Chase, I just can’t get past this sentence, one of the most remarkable on this or any internet:
This list of responses pops up all the time, whether it’s for arguing why women should not wear pants, or defending slavery, or trying to preserve a single meaning for the word “ironic” [just like the others! –ed.], or fighting marriage equality, or claiming rap isn’t “real” music, or in any other time when social conservatives want to be oppressive assholes to other people.
Look out for Anil Dash’s next thrilling post, in which he explains how people who oppose your inalienable right to masturbate while riding public transportation are like Holocaust deniers. And you can disagree that the makers of this video are the moral equivalent of Jefferson Davis?
Above: History’s Greatest Monsters, Except For People Who Would Prefer That You Not Yell Into Your Cellphone While Other People Are Trying To Watch A Movie