The Twitter lecture series on civility that actress/comedienne Aisha Tyler started yesterday is still ongoing after criticism Tyler received over her weak Obamacare sales pitch.
Tyler, who preaches civility, has in the past threatened to kick Twitchy CEO Michelle Malkin “in the nuts.” Any defensive reaction to a statement like that comes from people who are overreacting and “eager to be offended,” according to Tyler:
@aishatyler Hate and intolerance masquerading as comedy is one of the most abhorrent things on the planet. Archer still rocks.
— Mark Rickard (@markrickardpgh) July 26, 2013
. @markrickardpgh & might u also imagine certain people, eager 2 be offended, might take those jokes the wrong way? Call them hateful even?
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) July 26, 2013
. @markrickardpgh when they are obv. hyperbolic & clearly jokes? Doesn't mean you have to find them funny. Just maybe not overreact. Maybe.
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) July 26, 2013
So everybody just lighten up, because Tyler’s only cracking jokes when she criticizes, but criticize Tyler and you’re tagged as a “hater.”
When Tyler threatened to kick Twitchy CEO Michelle Malkin “in the nuts,” she didn’t claim it was a joke, but rather that Malkin was asking for it, as evidenced by this flashback tweet:
@TeriChristoph I would also offer that incendiary statements are @michellemalkin 's bailiwick; and so invite (even court) extreme reaction.
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) August 10, 2010
Malkin was asking for it. But it was also hyperbole, or something:
@TeriChristoph hyperbole. Far as I know, @michellemalkin has no testes, thus making the likelihood I'd be able to kick her there nil.
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) August 10, 2010
Which Tyler still claims to this day:
. @markrickardpgh when they are obv. hyperbolic & clearly jokes? Doesn't mean you have to find them funny. Just maybe not overreact. Maybe.
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) July 26, 2013
We’re not convinced Tyler would have accepted the same explanation if the tables had been turned. It sounds to us that if you insult or threaten Tyler, you’ll be considered a hater. If she insults or threatens you, she was only joking and you need to lighten up.
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