Why do people take her comments so literally? It’s a bad taste, poor attempt at sarcasm and humour to make a point. Nothing more.
When a friend tells you his mother is going to kill him because he missed curfew do you call the police and tell them a murder is about to take place?
Hmm. Did anybody say that KAK should be reported to the police? Is your friend’s mother a panellists on a TV show where she jokes about killing your friend for missing curfew?
If anything, she’s encouraging violence. Especially in this day and age the wrong person could be watching and she’s given them a idea. She won’t think it’s so funny then.
Yeah. She’s pretty much a shock jock for TV these days. Following in the footsteps of John-Michael Howson.
Let’s sanitise everything and crucify anyone who uses dark humour and sarcasm to make a point.
Another gross over reaction to a nothing comment because people are always looking for something to be outraged about or offended by.
Did Kerri-Anne say this today? I was watching a couple of weeks ago, when there were protests in Brisbane, and she said that the police shouldn’t remove them from the road and that they should be used as speed bumps instead. On that day, Sarah put her hand on her face, saying "Oh, Kerri-Anne!’ and tried to laugh it off.
So, she has repeated the same “joke” on multiple occassions, despite it being poorly received by the panel?
Yeah it was today.
I think it’s more of a case of it being KAK that said it. She has ultra right views and can be seen as a rallying cry for those extremists. She isn’t a trained commentator so she just mouths off what first pops into her head. Given her privileged life experiences she really has a narrow view of the world.
What if someone does and runs a protester over? It’s inciting violence and thus extremely reckless.
Sorry, but what rubbish. If anyone decides to take KAK literally and run someone over they have other problems.
I’ve never particularly liked KAK but she was expressing a crude figure of speech, nothing more.
But that’s exactly the point. People do have problems. What if someone with a type of mental illness saw this and takes her literally? You just don’t know who is watching and listening.
Alan Jones uses the same excuse when he wants to perpetuate violence against someone.
It’s funny. It seems a lot of the comments in this forum that used to be aimed at Joe Hildebrand for “grandstanding” and “talking down to people” have simply been redirected at Kerri-Anne.
It’s OK to watch a show and dislike one of the panelists… doesn’t mean you have to find something wrong with them to justify your reasoning.
Mate I work in comedy, KAK is far from a comedian or someone who even understands nuance and sarcasm.
It just baffles me that people are so willing to fall for the click bait headlines and take offence at comments made in the context of a broader discussion. People are just too willing to be led by the nose into being outraged over something that would’ve been brushed off without such a fuss years ago. It must be exhausting to find fault with how people express an opinion and be outraged over such a meaningless, albeit tasteless, comment.
What are you on about? She has a right to have an expression and opinion, thats fine but to advocate to run over protest who are legally exercfising their right to protest (probably not exactly in a lawful way) to run them over. Theres subtly hint.
KAK has learnt nothing in all her years in television. Obviously needs a reality check.
Does KAK expressing her opinion in such a manner incite violence any more than the graphic depictions of violence and horror we see in popular culture every day?
People who take her comments literally fall into the same category of unhinged people who seek to emulate something they’ve seen depicted on television or in the movies.
Remember that sarcasm and dry/dark humour don’t always come across well in written form, nor do they look good when over-analysed. I personally think the online world is too quick to judge the content of a conversation instead of the intent behind it.
I’m sure you yourself have been guilty of saying “kill me now” (or something similar) in response to something going wrong - does that mean you’re condoning people killing you…? (I’d hope not)
Does this mean she shouldn’t choose her words more carefully? No, but perhaps we shouldn’t impress so much upon simple discussions.
The way it comes across yes.
Because that’s obviously the same thing as a television presenter suggesting we should run over a group of people