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

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.