Line #22 WebVideo/ZinniaJones


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3	->''I mean, here you are, at a rally for the expressed purpose of denying your fellow citizens their equal rights, and all of a sudden these ''people'' show up. And they're just ''standing'' there, in front of you. And they actually have the nerve to ''disagree'' with you. Who could have seen '''that''' coming? I can only imagine the deep and enduring anguish of being confronted by people who don't share your "views".''
4	-->-- From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_72nVAlm58 I'm sorry, NOM]].
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6	''Zinnia Jones'' is a social/political commentary Internet show, written and hosted by the titular Zinnia Jones and distributed through her [[https://www.youtube.com/ZJemptv YouTube channel]]. Zinnia usually speaks about issues that connect to religion, politics ''and'' homophobia, but one of those three is enough and sometimes entirely different issues pop up as well.
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9	!!Has examples of
10	* AbominationAccusationAttack: Used for satire in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvcuRVbZMUU Conservative Christians Are Rapists And Pedophiles]].
11	* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: HeteronormativeCrusaders and [[TheFundamentalist repressive extremists]] are common targets of ZJ's dry wit, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOQGhhrIpE MassResistance]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iODvJDnA7Bo Let's Outlaw Conservative Christianity]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwlT5KzeRE Westboro Baptist Church]].
12	* AgreeToDisagree: The premise of the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAo4SoYOCE In Defense of Drawing Muhammad]]".
13	* AllGaysArePedophiles: Played with in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvcuRVbZMUU Conservative Christians Are Rapists And Pedophiles]].
14	* AmbiguousSituation: Invoked in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59b0iTRIs4 this episode]] about how different Christians interpret Literature/TheBible differently.
15	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-1xIPPSak Your threats of hell mean nothing]].
16	* BackhandedApology: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_72nVAlm58 I'm sorry, NOM]].
17	* BoomerangBigot: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECYviiClMc Gay people who hate gay people]].
18	* CaptainObvious: Often combined with StrawmanPolitical for comedic effect; watching Zinnia verbally slap around these morons can be totally hilarious.
19	* ClusterFBomb: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjSCv7uZ-Ew Re: "Gigantic faggot"]]
20	* ComingOutStory: The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI Coming Out]]".
21	** Had an episode where she came out as a woman and a lesbian, called (funnily enough) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1gukLnbAIY&list=PLE764A630E498EB0C&index=59&feature=plpp_video "Coming out...again!"]].
22	* CoolShades: Wears a pair in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAo4SoYOCE&feature=relmfu some]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehLC0y3K8ZY&feature=plcp videos]].
23	* DeadpanSnarker: In many episodes, especially episodes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_5fZEUePvk Atheists Are So Arrogant!]]
24	* DoWrongRight: This admittedly slightly [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/1/3LXFtFlkUOI confusing video ]]
25	* {{Doublethink}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNcWdV0LYG4 The episode on Pascal's Wager]], briefly arguing the potential benefits of believing in different religions separately from each other but simultaneously.
26	* DrivenToSuicide: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKk8qYIf4oI Remembering Alan Turing]]", one unusually dark episode.
27	* {{Eagleland}}: Type 1 played straight as finale of the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtMufkEMUM Prop 8 overturned as unconstitutional!]]
28	* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Discussed in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlL-edhMILw 'Re: "Can't Even Go to the Park"']] regarding the blog post [[http://www.acceptingabundance.com/2011/08/cant-even-go-to-park.html "Can't Even Go to the Park"]] which gained international infamy for suggesting that the concepts of "freedom" and "Not outlawing the existence of gay people" are mutually exclusive.
29	* FinalSolution: Invoked in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK02Lqky2U Jason "Molotov" Mitchell: Cheerleader for genocide]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/0/Km0Au3Mmvtg Why Not Immortality?]]
30	* FluffyFashionFeathers: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iODvJDnA7Bo Let's Outlaw Conservative Christianity]] and pictured above.
31	* GodIsFlawed: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGiCuFQM2Vo One episode]] portrays God as a victim of peer pressure, with horrible consequences such as going along with barbaric cultural patterns until Jesus came along.
32	* HeManWomanHater: The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAUq_-bFzX8 You Treat Women Like That?]]".
33	* HeteronormativeCrusader: Zinnia talks about this in several episodes.
34	* {{Hypocrisy}}: ...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZwaJMYbnqk has its benefits]]
35	* IAmAHumanitarian: Played with in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVlokgogn4 Come and Get Me, al-Awlaki!]]".
36	* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: In the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0f76ZG1yWQ&list=UUamaea05bOJ0q42F9iyaFMA&index=8&feature=plcp Filling in each other's blanks: The importance of listening]]", Zinnia discuss the concepts of "known unknowns" versus "unknown unknowns". With "known unknowns", we are least know what kind of answer we are looking for. That something is an unknown unknown, however, means that we are even ignorant of our own ignorance. Zinnia argues that we should always listen to people's experiences: If nothing else, it can still alert us to questions we didn't yet know we needed an answer for.
37	* {{Immortality}}: Debated in episodes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/1/ea5J1Dw8648 The pursuit of technological immortality]] and the follow-up [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/0/Km0Au3Mmvtg Why Not Immortality?]].
38	* InternalizedCategorism: Zinnia Jones talks about internalized homophobia in several episodes, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI ''coming out'']], which is based on the concept that HeteronormativeCrusader antics are designed to 'make'' gay people hate themselves.
39	* JesusWasCrazy: Zinnia claims that the biblical Jesus was way out of whack, for example in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-91mSkxaXs The Meaningless Death Of Jesus]].
40	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWHo95hJkes What WOULDN'T you do for God?]]
41	* ManufacturingVictims: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScW-djjpzGY I am not a symptom]].
42	* MoralEventHorizon: Invoked; Advocating [[FinalSolution genocide]] etc is branded as this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK02Lqky2U Jason "Molotov" Mitchell: Cheerleader for genocide ]]
43	* MoralGuardians: Mocked in episodes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8kFyLdcq4 Day of Silence, Stupidity of Homophobes]].
44	* NoBisexuals: Debated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raBrRi_1aFc Some People Are Bisexual]]
45	* NonsenseClassification: Attributed to Rick Santorum in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QNYNcThlc A napkin is not an argument: Deconstructing Santorum]]
46	* NotSoDifferentRemark: The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anvlms-Z_u0 Gay-Hating Atheists]]" points out that atheists can be just as narrow-minded (and with less reason for being so) then their religious counterparts.
47	* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Parodied in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjSCv7uZ-Ew Re: "Gigantic faggot"]]
48	* PrideParade: Zinnia spend episodes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjDgxMgI9A Taking Pride In Pride]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgYuBp8XFmY I don't care what you think of pride parades]] arguing that the parades are nessecary and that those critics who don't have a gay-hating agenda are missing the point.
49	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXMWlWbwIe0 Are atheists "angry at God"?]]
50	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: ...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTITazjfj8 and if it was Meant To Happen, as a part of God's Plan, eeeeew!]]
51	* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The serious elements were there from the beginning, but the attitude that gives the show its comedy value was added later. It started out as a regular video blog, without any style and with a very unrefined theme.
52	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUVGoAF2pUQ Facists and their facism!]]
53	* SafeSaneAndConsensual: The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9iL_JiIlY Public Service Announcement: Don't Grope People]]".
54	* SenselessSacrifice: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-91mSkxaXs&feature=fvwrel Mentioned here.]]
55	* SeriousBusiness: Music/InsaneClownPosse and Zinnia [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OovPxx6oc strongly disagree with each other]]... and somehow manage to keep a straight face, criticizing each other without giggling even once.
56	* SexSlave: Portrayed as a sign of lawmaking gone horribly wrong, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrVWF3z1jTc Backwards fetishistic legal idiocy]]
57	* ShapedLikeItself: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZBCzrDAY7I The empty appeal to tradition]].
58	* TheSingularity: Debated in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/3/Krjh1m_ZGlM The Singularity]].
59	* StopBeingStereotypical: Picks apart the UnfortunateImplications of this attitude in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECYviiClMc Gay people who hate gay people.]]
60	* StrawHypocrite: The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehLC0y3K8ZY Catholic values: Show compassion for gay people by firing them for no reason]].
61	* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqj3kxbnuko It got stuck?]]
62	* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Debated in [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/0/Km0Au3Mmvtg Why Not Immortality?]].
63	* UnproblematicProstitution: Discussed (and ultimately averted) in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrNMsVfrbw Overstating the case for full decriminalization of prostitution]].
64	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Salvation Army in the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXcSQ6OW6oA Boycott the Salvation Army]]".
65	* WindmillCrusader: Invoked in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAm2-8sZTbU this episode]].
66	* WindmillPolitical: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-J9x3dzmOA Witchcraft]]"
67	* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Debated in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_itrJx2FJI A challenge to Christians: Stop defending genocide]]
68	* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Iq4YD3Trg One episode]] satirizes homophobia by pretending that heterosexuality is taboo.
69	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiwiCjmI8wE&NR=1 Another]] plays with it.

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