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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: The People Versus John Oliver: The Murky Ethics Of Modern Comedy
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:58:43 -0400
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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.