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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: The People Versus John Oliver: The Murky Ethics Of Modern Comedy
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 00:52:09 -0000 (UTC)
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shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 19:14:51 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
><ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 17:04:44 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>>>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?
>>>>
>>>
>>>No, it's an assumption that some made that he went there specifically
>>>because he went there because it involved blacks. After all it wasn't
>>>his property or even his town that he was supposedly protecting.
>>
>>For fuck's sake, shawn, we've been over this and over this. It was 20
>>miles away from where he lived.
>
>While you may know everything about this case, I didn't. All I knew
>was the guy traveled across state lines. Not whether he lived down the
>street or a thousand miles away.

I posted quite a bit at the time.