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That sentence should have ended immediately after the words "ridiculous to ban".
You just can't satisfy these clowns.
A Sonic employee politely asks for this man's[1] pronouns. [...]
Tick-tock, America.
Tick-tock.
You just can't satisfy these clowns.
Is there any topic that you can't somehow twist into a racial issue?There's that damn white privilege again.
NPR accuses Dave Chappelle of using 'white privilege'
"Too often in The Closer, it just sounds like Chappelle is using white privilege to excuse his own homophobia and transphobia," wrote NPR television critic Eric Deggans.
I wondered where your royal lineage originated. And here you make an appropriate appearance. "The Count of Clown World..." It does have a nice ring to it.Let me guess: All you read was the headline?
Let me guess: All you read was the headline?
Deggans has his panties in twist because he thinks Chapelle is "using white privilege" the wrong way.
He thinks that Chappelle is "using white privilege" as a defense for why he can make fun of white people in a way that he doesn't think that black people should be made fun of.
In other words, he's calling Chappelle out on race-base hypocrisy.
I despise the way that the article is written, it's in essentially written in some weird alternate SJW-ish dialect that I find nearly impossible to read/understand, but I agree with the point that I think he's making.
But lines like that assume that the struggle over oppression is a zero-sum game — that because some gay people have access to white privilege in America, all their concerns about stereotyping and marginalization are hollow and subordinate to what Black people face.
It ignores the fact that there are plenty of nonwhite gay people who face oppression for both their sexual orientation and their race. And, of course, opposing these public statements of homophobia isn't just about making gay people feel better; it's about keeping the anger and prejudice behind those words from becoming widely acceptable or turning into action.
That idiotic assumption "oh, we're so oppressed, oh how we struggle", that alone is worthy comedic satire and ridicule.