Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The People Versus John Oliver: The Murky Ethics Of Modern Comedy Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:58:43 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:58:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a77611f04bc5de34fc7d36efdfc08cbc"; logging-data="3202473"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+7UQAAufg2lldnJtODfyUQZ2E/Fne0XU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ouplnVn4fG/aYaAicPplUYcTCf8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3717 On 4/8/2025 4:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 8, 2025 at 12:13:31 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > >> On 4/8/2025 2:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> moviePig wrote: >>>> On 4/8/2025 1:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> On Apr 8, 2025 at 10:00:28 AM PDT, "shawn" >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:46:14 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Apr 8, 2025 at 1:30:43 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" 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.