There’s nothing more fulfilling than watching third-grader Drake Viola give his eighth-grade sibling Grant a beatdown for calling something “gay.” They made the video for Grant’s class project and while it’s violent, sometimes haters gotta smacked for being stoopid.
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Randi
Leave out the violence it is even worse than name calling.
Allen D.
I like it. Approved.
Steven
Bitch got told.
Mark Snyder
Violence isn’t cute and it’s the wrong message for youth.
HM
So much for our anti-bullying efforts……
Gigi
My nephews would have totally made this. When the oldest was in kindergarten he got into a fight with some other kids who called a teacher gay. He said, “That’s not nice. My uncle is gay and he’s a really nice guy!” the jeering continued from the other boys and then he just lost it. Got hauled down to the principal’s office and then at home he told his mom, “It’s NOT RIGHT!”
kylew
What a stupid video. So we’re teaching everyone to be ovrsensitive, and to meet distasteful langage with violence? Kyle will doubtless be delighted – i’m sure that he thinks that we should be having an actual war – guns and all. But what he fails to remember, is that we are massively outnumbered, and we start becoming physical, we’ll force straights to pick sides, and human nature will mean that most side with their own kind.
Mr. Enemabag Jones
@kylew:
Well, just don’t get in our way when you decide to lie down, kylew.
Mr. Enemabag Jones
What was that one for?
For being stupid!
God, I nearly wet myself laughing!
Gay Christian
Why is violence solving problems???
Oscar Raymundo
Am I the only one who senses a Tarantino influence in this?
Kevin
Those slaps strike me more as “get yourself together” slaps than genuine violence. There should have been a third but I don’t really expect kids that age to understand the rules of comedy. Still, enjoyable 🙂
Ray
Do you people gripping about violence really think the world wouldn’t be a better place if people like Santorum, Coulter, Rush etc. got bitch slapped everything they said something homophobic? It would take about two times for them all to decide gay bashing for profits and votes wasn’t worth it. Oh and an 8th grader made this. Did you really expect a Gandhi speech from an 8th grader?
Allen D.
Oh fer fuckssakes. We live in a VIOLENT WORLD. All you can do is differentiate between the ‘just’ and ‘unjust’ violence. VIOLENCE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE. Deal with it. It’s human nature.
MT
@Allen D.: We also live in a homophobic, racist, stupid, nepotistic, narcissistic, cruel, unfair world. I guess those things aren’t going anywhere either. Deal with it. It’s human nature.
But wait — you like and approve of this video. A video that attempts to reduce homophobic language in our society.
Yeah, I’m confused.
(For the record, I don’t have much of a problem with the “violence” in the video — it’s more comic effect than anything I’d call actual violence. But I can definitely understand people’s concern about violence as a tool to combat homophobia — see above.)
Henry
@MT: It’s “human nature” to be narcissistic? That’s strange to hear, since for most of the world, narcissism as a concept is unheard of, and narcissistic personality disorder is a clinical category which only a very small part of the population fits into. It’s “human nature” to be racist and homophobic? You must have a 110 IQ, or you must live in the 19th century, where it was en vogue to say that sort of thing. With my exceptionally high IQ, and my 21st century knowledge (not that I need the 21st century if I have a high IQ), I know that racism and homophobia are results of social conditioning, limited by concrete circumstances to cause the conditioning, prior to the introduction of Christianity, that is, when white people began to hate non-white races and hate gay people out of theological necessity. Christianity is to blame for giving people an enormous and abstract “head start” in the direction of hate.
o
@Henry: I can believe it. Without Christianity, people didn’t have a God-given reason to hate. Even if they did end up hating non-white races or gay people, they did it by stumbling into the hate, not by having it served up to them from birth, in the Bible, at church, EVERYWHERE. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Christianity ruined world history.
MT
@Henry: Yeah, I wasn’t actually referring to the clinical condition. Sorry that your hugely superior IQ has such an issue with using “narcissistic” in its non-clinical meaning of “overly self-absorbed”. Would you prefer “egotistical”? Fine by me.
Which, by the way, *is* human nature. It is human nature to be self-absorbed, self-promoting, and self-interested. It is also human nature to fear that which is different/foreign/unfamiliar. Religion and social conditioning can shape our expressions of these traits, but we were racist, homophobic, xenophobic f***wits long before Jesus ever showed up. People will find an excuse for being dicks; Christianity has been a convenient one for a while now, but it’s hardly unique or original in that respect.
BTW, you and your superior intellect do understand sarcasm, right? My point was that racism and so forth are as much “human nature” as being violent is (namely: they have some basis in our animal instincts, but we do not have to be slaves to those instincts). We don’t, and shouldn’t, just accept that humans will be racist and therefore it’s OK; we work to change what is acceptable. So why should we say that humans will be violent and therefore it’s OK?
The irony here is that this video (and the responses to it) actually demonstrates how our views on violence *have* changed. In many times and places, this wouldn’t even be noticed as “violent” — one kid slapping another? So what? Hell, you could have had a man beating his wife with a stick and people wouldn’t have seen a problem, back in the 19th century (I should know, I live there, after all). So, yeah… so much for “VIOLENCE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE. Deal with it. It’s human nature.”
kylew
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: I am MORE than capable of violence, I simply don’t think that portraying violence as the way forwards against ignorance is the way forwards. In fact, especially in this example, it’s the pathetic solution of an immature mind. I’m not saying that those who can, should not defend themselves against physical violence, but to suggest that the non-insulting use of a word by someone, ostensibly talking to themselves, merits violence, is a stupid notion indeed, portrayed simply by someone young enough not to perceive the nuances of life.
Ricco
A non-violent PSA addressing gay slurs is what we would expect from an adult . . . but c’mon you overly politically correct, grumpy old men, give these adorable kids a break and honor the intent. They are kids.
Why is it Queerty has so many toxic gays for a following?
kylew
@Ricco: I agree and have said exactly the same thing about queerty’s toxic following myself. However, we’re not children dscussing this – we’re adults.
And if we applaud violence from kids, all we’re doing is validating the adult attitudes that they will grow to have. If this was an ant-gay video, you could switch it around and say, “A considerate non-homophobic attitude is for adults, but these are just kids, and look how cute they are.” Nobody would agree with that, so why should we applaud an attitude of violence in the young?
Henry
@MT, that’s one huge blow of hot air. The fact is that narcissism isn’t human nature at all. Greek, Roman, European, and American culture are the only ones in history that have ever really been narcissistic. You don’t grasp my point well enough to see why this is the case, and I can’t explain it for a low IQ in a single post. What I can say is that the fact that racism existed before Christianity (not before Jesus, who has nothing to do with Christianity, who had no intention whatsoever of starting a new religion) is completely irrelevant and a very poor reading of my reply.
o
@Henry: MT must be a Christian (barf), or he would never say “before Jesus” instead of “before Christianity.” Everybody who’s done reading about early Christian history knows that the Christian religion has nothing to do with Jesus, who was just an ordinary guy that went around teaching people and supposedly pulling off magic tricks. Jesus said that his mission was to the house of Israel, and he never made any efforts to expand it beyond that very small house in the Levant.
Henry
@o: Yep, Peter and Paul were the ones who spread the new religion called Christianity. Jesus had no part in that, and in fact he would have been disgusted by anyone worshiping him. That’s blasphemy.
Speaking of Jesus’ so-called mission, the strange thing about it is that nobody knows what he was trying to do. He wanted to liberate Israel from Roman rule, but he didn’t have any weapons and he hardly had any followers. What did he expect to happen? Was God supposed to reach down from heaven and swat the Romans for him? He went to his death for no reason. Maybe Jesus was as dumb as his followers are.