Re: The People Versus John Oliver: The Murky Ethics Of Modern Comedy

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 17:04:44 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On Apr 8, 2025 at 10:00:28 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:
 

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:46:14 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On Apr 8, 2025 at 1:30:43 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

 

Take Bill Burr, who insinuated Kyle Rittenhouse was a White Supremacist
during his Netflix special "Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill".
 
Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two and injuring one during a 2020
fracas tied to the BLM protests. A court of law found him innocent,
agreeing
with his self-defense explanation. Elements of the press and the Left
insisted his actions were racist, even though his victims were white and
they
 
couldn't pin any racially-charged comments to the young man.

 
That's still the most bizarre aspect of that whole case: a white guy shoots
two other white guys and the black grievance brigade starts screaming
"raaaaciiism!!"
 
Come again?

 
I think it's more of why he traveled across state lines to supposedly
protect a business.

 
And how was *that* racist?
 

That he ended up shooting some white guys doesn't
get around the fact that he was there to supposedly protect the
business from BLM protestors.

 
So now it's racist to protect your property from vandalism and looting if it's
being done by blacks?
 

No, it's an assumption that some made that he went there specifically
because he went there because it involved blacks.

He went there because of the violence and looting. But apparently if blacks
are the ones doing it, you're now racist if you try to stop the
'reparations'.

After all it wasn't
his property or even his town that he was supposedly protecting.

So? It was his country.