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