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

On Apr 8, 2025 at 7:09:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 4/8/2025 7:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Apr 8, 2025 at 1:58:43 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

 On 4/8/2025 4:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Apr 8, 2025 at 12:13:31 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
  

   On 4/8/2025 2:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

     moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

     On 4/8/2025 1:04 PM, BTR1701 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?

 
     Of course it is, if you ignore it when it's being done by whites.

    
     He obviously wasn't doing that because the ones he shot were whites.
    
     And who the hell would sit back and let their property be looted and
 burned
     just because the perps were white, anyway?

 
   The question of his racism is one of whether he sprang to this
   interdiction because the alleged perps were black.

  
   Or the only ones burning down cities across the nation that summer were
 black.
   He went where the problem was.

 
 But what determines his racism is the matter of *why* he went.

 
 Only if you pre-suppose there was racism no matter what and the only issue
was
 finding out its cause.

 
Yes, we start with a not-too-risky premise that indeed there IS racism
 

No, YOU start with that because, like most leftists, you think everything is
racist.

 
...leaving only the question of whether HE was infected with it.  And
that would depend, I assert, on WHY he felt drawn to enter the fray.