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


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