Seemingly unprompted he's released a statement over the 2010 song Spastic Hawk in which he bizarrely claims he didn't know the true meaning of the term spastic then.
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The only thing that is unrealistic is the suggestion that he was the only person in Ireland that didn't know that to call someone a spastic was to liken them to someone with disabilities. You're reaching.
This is exactly the kind of apology we see ridiculed all the time, where a person doesn't accept responsibility for their actions. Why is it suddenly an adequate apology now?
He is, yeah. Does some deadly looking work.
Basically can't use any words on facebook any more. Everything is cancelled, everything is woke, everything is racist or at the very least a micro-aggression.
You can put on violent clips.
Is there really a need to get so personal? It's very odd.
I just went and watched Spastic Hawk and Your Da's Best Friend and they are fabulously subversive.
Why would you apologise for this?
No normal person thinks he's saying disabled people are **** (he's actually saying the opposite) or you should jerk off to gay porn in your shed.
Maybe he really is mentally ill and needs help.
Curiously enough, the background to Blindboy’s “explanation” (as opposed to an apology) is that he was pulled up on it on Twitter by a guy called “Cork boi mental”, who is autistic himself.
So Blindboy released that statement by way of explanation, claiming that his use of the term was due to his “upbringing in Limerick”, as if his Irish audience weren’t aware of his spoofery, the explanation appeared to be aimed at an international audience on social media. That, and his claim that he didn’t know the term referred specifically to people with disabilities, is what appears to have got people’s heckles up, not his use of the term in the context of the song itself at all which has been understood for years.
That's actually quite a good point you have raised as I remember at the time thinking (as he's still in character as blindboy giving this interview) how does his view that young men need feminism stack up with the lyrics of that song?
If that song is satirical, is his claim that young men need feminism also satirical (as he was in character giving the interview)?
For him to come out now and say he didn't fully understand the meaning of the word spastic, especially with his entire gimmick being around using big words in a surrealist context, it just does not ring true for me.
He knew what he was saying and what he was trying to say (satire or not). I would respect him more if he owned it, not try to play it down as such.
Personally I have no issue with being "woke", but this to me seems like a bit of a face saving exercise he's doing to potentially mitigate any future issues considering the podcasts popularity effectively puts him out there to be "cancelled" for saying it.
Another Limerick head here, in school until 2001 and spastic (and retard) were used without care and understanding. It was just an insult. I thought it no different to the many red haired insults I was getting on a daily basis. I didn't Google it because, Google only released in 1998 and we weren't the most up to date technology wise here. AJ was there, but it would never have dawned on me to search the meaning of an insult.
I also don't really understand why people get so upset by it. It's a legit, medical term and not exactly the World Cup of insults either... But to 12 to 20-something year olds during those years it's as common as saying toast. I'm pretty sure it was my late 20's before I found out **** is not just an insult. Can probably apply the same to lots of words. People forget how young the internet is, and how hard it was to get decent (affordable) internet in the country.
Edit: Hah, a bundle of sticks is censored...
Double edit: It uncensored after I edited...
My teenage years predate the mass use of the internet. I knew what spastic, retard and f*gg*t meant.
I don't believe anyone who claims they didn't when they used the terms.
Yeah but in fairness, most people knew exactly what the word spastic was referring to 20 years ago, it’s why they used it, and you didn’t write a song 10 years later about a spastic hawk and then go on 10 years later again to try and claim that you were at the time “reclaiming” a word that was used to bully you, in order to appeal to your woke audience.
Like there’s a lot of bullshìt I’d be prepared to swallow, there is, but that bullshìt excuse that he came out with that it was used against him even by teachers at the time in the school he attended? Nah, bad and all as they may or may not have been, not for a minute do I believe a teacher ever referred to BB as a spastic. Handicap maybe, but spastic? And then he’s trying to say he was reclaiming the word, as if THAT’s what anyone is suggesting he should apologise for?
Neck as hard as a jockeys bollocks tbh.
Claiming to not know what a word meant is the weakest defence ever. Why would you repeatedly use a word without ever enquiring as to what it meant. It completely defeats the purpose of using a language to communicate.
A lot of folks on here could do with chilling out and listening to this great episode of the Blindboy Podcast on developing empathy for others and self-compassion
https://open.spotify.com/episode/05f1OvbJlA4gUH7FS7JI9N?si=VbzqbTsGToaT9WeY_S_L2w&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
Yes, no one should criticise his statement, just listen to the podcast and don't ask any questions.
What was he like when you met him? I’m curious
What's this thread actually about??
I knew him in school too. He was always pretty funny saying outlandish things, with that weird accent. But even back then it sounded put on. Such a nice guy and not a bad bone is his body.
A long time ago now since I've seen him last I'm sure he could have changed a lot.
A lot of people have their knickers in a twist because a lad with a bag on his head called an animal a name.
You forgot to say be kind.
Your reading comprehension is as good as blindboy's excuses are believable if that's what you've taken from the thread.
I'm always wary of people who constantly go on about be Kind to one another, there's a good chance that they're the c****.
You can be absolutely sure people who virtue signal are the ones doing the thing they're complaining about.
A classic example is Gerry Ryan constantly talking about how drugs are bad and drug dealers are scum... yet he was doing coke nearly every day.
You've probably heard of the new thing where Apple will be scanning every (initially American only) iPhone because they think their customers might be pedophiles and think it's their job to police this. It's such a weird flex that I will be zero surprised when it turns out Tim Cook is a pedophile.
I know a lot of woke people in real life and they are all incredible hypocrites. Here's an example: an acquaintance of mine who has her pronouns next to her LinkedIn name, her social media is absolutely full of virtue signalling and very loudly does charity work... she sleeps with married men and gives no **** about hurting people.
The only other thing to take from this thread is how outraged people get about so little.
Ah no, "Gutted"!
No.
There's something particularly awful about "woke" people who virtue signal like crazy while being scummy themselves.
He thinks his audience are stupid and will believe his obvious lie that he didn't know calling someone a spastic was an insult in reference to being disabled.
He's not a good person, yet he spends his time telling you that you're the bad person.
It's gross.
Give me an honest scumbag any day over a dishonest virtue signaller.
you must spend a lot of time listening to him to be so well informed.
Go out and rub a dog...ye gowels 🐕
No one is allowed to criticise BB, lads. Just listen to the podcast and never question him.
You use the same comeback for anybody you disagree with in here.
Its just lasts week version of the same 'non-woke' (what does that make them? sleepy? dozy? bleary-eyed) vs 'woke' discussion we see like clockwork here.
Anyone who gets a platform (self-made or appointed) who advocates for or has advocated for anything of a progressive nature is a target and in this case an opportunity has been presented to really stick the knife in.
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