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Comment Re:Hitler and Trump get rid of the comedians first (Score 4, Informative) 225

When Roseanne Barr was fired in 2018 over a racist tweet, liberals applauded. Different years, different comedians, but the same story: outrage, pressure, punishment, and partisan applause.

The difference with Roseanne being that Obama didn't call up her boss and demand a firing. The part that really gave me a good laugh was when she tried to blame the drug ambien. The makers of ambien tweeted back that none of the side effects include racism.

Comment Re: The GOP solution (Score 3, Informative) 97

Nice try, picking something out of context, which seems really, really popular now. His discussion was about DEI/Affirmative Action, specifically about airline pilot racial hiring quotas, and how quotas end up lowering excellence by displacing otherwise more qualified candidates. And what effect that can have on people's thinking by casting shadows of doubt. He said, as part of a conversation:

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

        – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

        Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

        – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

        If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

        – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

In what context is any of that not racist?

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