No, they're cunts (technically thundercunts) for deliberately manufacturing their own offence and then shouting about just how offended they are. Fair enough, if you are genuinely offended, that's your right. But for people who haven't seen it (and will go to great lengths to explain how much they never found him funny anyway and won't be seeing it), and for whoever edited the clip deliberately to remove the awkward gap at the end. It's a bait and switch, a standard of stand-up. Bad taste, of course, but that really was the unambiguous point of the show. Censorship should start with yourself.
I'm curious about the motivations, it doesn't seem that any of the complainers actually cares about travellers, and I know you don't want them parked up next door – no one here does. That's a problem, of course, that's difficult to solve. I don't even think Carr really intended that sort of solution, however.
(And indeed, there's no relationship between Roma and UK travellers, who at the most have Irish heritage.)
This is really just a paraphrasing of a post you've already made.
I note that you make repeated reference to people 'taking offence', and indeed accuse them of 'manufacturing their offence', in order that they have something to shout about, and that by implication their 'offence' is in bad faith.*
This is where you, as do all culture warriors, go wrong. You assume people are offended.
They may be, but it is just as likely that they are not, and that their response is not the emotional response of a headless chicken, but a rational response contextualised by a knowledge of history. In other words, it may be possible to think that the mass dissemination of Carr's joke is a
very bad idea, whilst not finding it personally offensive.
I am not offended by prolific use of the 'N word'. Why would I be? It affects me not in the slightest way. But, I object to its usage because I think it is a
very bad idea, and very harmful. Real harm, not just offence.
Equally, I would not welcome a traveller camp next to me any more than I would take up their offers to trim my hedge or fix a broken roof tile I didn't know about. But that doesn't mean that I welcome jokes that risk further alienating them from settled society.
*FWIW I think Carr's joke was in bad faith. The caveat he gives that it was educational was merely an attempt at justifying a joke based on racism. (Gervase tries this trick too.) Carr then goes on to portray the JW as gullible fools easily tricked by German guards. These were men, women and children gassed to death, shot, buried in lime pits or incinerated in crematoria. Where is the recognition of their humanity?
