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A comedy company known for racist jokes is scheduled for two shows in the Levity Comedy Club & Lounge in Hamilton next month, following the cancellation of performances in other Canadian places after the community reaction.
Danger Cats shows are scheduled for February 7 and February 8 at the center of the center.
Their jokes include those found on the Jews, indigenous children who died in residential schools and the victims of the serial killer convicted Robert Pickton. The company has appeared in Podcasts and in photos with members of Diagolon, a group of extreme right appointed in a report by the 2022 Commons House as an example of “violent extremism motivated ideologically.”
In his podcast, the member of the Danger Cats member, Uncle Hack, has also excused attacks against politicians due to his elections related to COVID-19 blocks and vaccines, saying that he is not violent, but it can also be the time of “paying the Piper”.
Their publications on social networks point to numerous marginalized groups and refer to cat danger programs such as “desensibility training.” In addition to Uncle Hack, whose real name is Brendan Blacquier, according to the Network against Canadian hatredAlberta -based group members include Brett Forte and Sam Walker.
The offensive nature of its program is promoted in Levity website.
“You’ve seen Brett Forte just to laugh, you’ve heard it in Sirius XM, but you won’t see it on CBC because it is forbidden for life,” he says. “Come see why.”
The group did not respond to the request for comments from CBC Hamilton, or Levity Booker and Patrick Coppolino manager.
‘Punch download’ jokes can normalize intolerance: defender
Caitlin Craven, executive director of the Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion, said she looked for Cats’s danger after listening to people who caught the entertainment.
Craven said that comics that “hit” marginalized groups often claim freedom of expression as an excuse, or suggest that offended people need to lighten because they are only making jokes. Such jokes can normalize intolerant beliefs, he added, suggesting that places should consider the role they play in that process.
“Any institution or place at this time really needs to think about the way these harmful ideas extend,” Hamilton told CBC on Thursday.
“Part of the biggest problem is that we definitely see many ideas of Alt-Right and white supremacists formed in the language of being a joke.
“Of course, it is not a joke because it is reinforcing this consensus that is fine to hit women, indigenous people, racialized people, disabled people, newcomers and migrants. It is very important to understand how that dehumanization works to lay the political bases public that are also harmful. “
CBC Hamilton spoke with several comedians and members of the worried community who said they didn’t feel comfortable talking about shows. Levity is one of the few places focused on comedy in the city.
Gymnasium owner forgiveness for ‘error’ made in the reservations show
Last March, a place in New Westminster, BC, canceled a danger cat show After the group promoted t -shirts that represented the Pickton serial killer holding a bacon strip, under the words “pickton pharms”.
Pickton was known for attacking sex trade workers and vulnerable women in the center of Vancouver in the Eastside. Many of his victims were indigenous women. He was convicted of six second -degree murder positions in 2007 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of probation for 25 years.
The owner of a vancouver F45 gym where the company made later He apologized after the show, saying: “Unfortunately, an error was made, and the proper investigation of the event did not occur the organizers,” said the statement. “We are out of us and sick because we let this happen in our study.”
The statement added that the program “was not representative of the values represented by our gym.”
Booker calls the comedy company ‘Shock Comedy’
A spectacle of Danger Cats in Winnipeg was also canceled last year, but a Date of Thunder Bay, Ontario, in May seems to have moved on despite the protests of the community members, including indigenous activist Esther Maud.
“Clearly have a healing to do because nobody in their right mind should joke about dead children, much less indigenous dead children, because our people went through a lot,” Maud told CBC Radio’s Superior tomorrow.
Superior tomorrow12:20Esther Maud/Chris Mulowyshyn: Danger cats
An indigenous defender in Thunder Bay says that an act of comedy scheduled to interpret the city is not a matter of laughter. We will listen to her and the promoter who booked the act.
Chris Mulowyshyn, Booker in the Cricks Comedy Club of Thunder Bay, said that the program continued to support “freedom of expression”, adding the offensive jokes of dangerous cats can be seen and heard online or the shirts are not Part of its regular live show and has nothing to do with the place.
“I reserve many comics that I don’t like because people like it,” Mulawyshyn told CBC Radio, emphasizing that he had a “zero” hatred for any race or religion. “But I’m not in the feelings of feelings; I am in the comedy business.
“They are a surprising comedy,” he added. “They are not really very different from what Howard Stern was 20 years ago.”
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