Isaac Hayes the hypocrite.....
03.14.06 (12:06 am) [edit]So Isaac Hayes quites SP because he doesn't like the show's insensitivity toward religion*. I guess the fact that he voiced the character of a black stereotype on a show that also made fun of families, gay people, race, class, and so on didn't matter to him.
Hayes' own character, Chef, was a sexually promiscuous, single black man who cheapened the act of sex into a recreational sport, divorced of its rightful place within a loving, respectful marriage. Not very moral in itself, I might say.
One of the show's creators, Matt Stone, says that Hayes is quitting because the show made fun of The Church of Scientology**, of which Hayes is a member. That may be true, but if Hayes was a moral man in the first place he should not have ever been a part of the show.
*The religion most made fun of on the show is Catholicism. It attacks Jesus and Mary, mischaracterizes the priest abuse scandal, and so on.
**Not a real church. While SP's treatment of Scientology was a bit extreme, at its core it was accurate. Scientology is a money making scheme that should not be included with religions like Christianity and Judaism.
posted by: therealspartacus007 (reply)
post date: 03.14.06 (6:11 am)
Exactly, Hayes is a hypocrite who can't take what he dishes out. I'd probably say there are more Jew jokes than Catholic jokes though.
posted by: sixthsense (reply)
post date: 03.21.06 (12:35 pm)
I wouldn't say so, spartacus. The Jew jokes are actually jokes about anti-Semitism. The show doesn't criticize Judaism, it makes fun of anti-Semitism, clearly. It goes right after Christianity, though, and Islam to a lesser (although much more deserved) extent.