Well, blackface is a no-no but I think it was meant to be more about clowning Malone than about stereotyping blacks in general. The skit continues (sans blackface) as recently as last night.
A Roseanne revival? Really??
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^ I'll admit I'm seeing it through the eyes of "white privilege" so I can understand that it could be seen differently by others. A lot of black athletes get a similar treatment to Malone there: Shaq, Barkley, Tyson but I've always seen that as a testament to them being such distinctive characters in the same sense that everyone and their brother does impressions of Trump's speaking and mannerisms. But maybe there's a subtext there but I'd like to think not but it's interesting to hear other's takes on it.
The end result is still a white person in blackface, spewing horrible racial stereotypes. The skit is beyond offensive, and inexcusable, but Kimmel is protected, since no one in the media (most have all chimed in on Roseanne) will touch him.
Well, sure. They had to try to get ahead of the coming criticism of Kimmel's past transgressions. It's ok though. He's one of the "good guys."
All this equivocation of Roseanne's comment is getting a little ridiculous. Also with Samantha Bee, like there's no distinction to be made between degrading an entire race and religion and using a bad word to insult an individual public figure.
Jimmy Kimmel's Karl Malone sketch is one of those things where racism thresholds have evolved over twenty years. And meant to parody an individual black person, not make any negative comments about a race as a whole. Yeah, if he did the same thing tomorrow he'd face the same consequences.
But no, not all comments, not all vulgarity, not all insults are on the same level. Every case is an individual case, and equivocating to other incidences of vulgarity or insults with different consequences as if they are exactly the same is basically saying that insulting an entire race is exactly the same as insulting an individual or saying a swear word. Which is ridiculous.
Jimmy Kimmel's Karl Malone sketch is one of those things where racism thresholds have evolved over twenty years. And meant to parody an individual black person, not make any negative comments about a race as a whole. Yeah, if he did the same thing tomorrow he'd face the same consequences.
But no, not all comments, not all vulgarity, not all insults are on the same level. Every case is an individual case, and equivocating to other incidences of vulgarity or insults with different consequences as if they are exactly the same is basically saying that insulting an entire race is exactly the same as insulting an individual or saying a swear word. Which is ridiculous.
Context.
Roseanne said that all black people are monkeys.
Sam said that Ivanka needs to please save us from her father.
One is a personal insult that's supposed to make Ivanka get up and do something, the other is bad science that should have been left behind in the 19th century.
Here's what I don't understand... Bee also goes on to say that Ivanka should seduce her father because he finds her very attractive, and he wants to bang her, so using the c-word as a harsh stand in for the word "person" is worse than suggesting incest inside the Trump household?
Incest has to be worse than the C-Word.
Roseanne said that all black people are monkeys.
Sam said that Ivanka needs to please save us from her father.
One is a personal insult that's supposed to make Ivanka get up and do something, the other is bad science that should have been left behind in the 19th century.
Here's what I don't understand... Bee also goes on to say that Ivanka should seduce her father because he finds her very attractive, and he wants to bang her, so using the c-word as a harsh stand in for the word "person" is worse than suggesting incest inside the Trump household?
Incest has to be worse than the C-Word.
Way to rise above. Kudos.
There is an admitted pedophile running for Congress. So no, clearly, sadly not.
Way to rise above. Kudos.
If it makes you feel better all the Clintons are cunts too, hell they are fucking cunts. Fair and balanced.
Ms. Barr would still get a chunk of revenue from any spinoff, as the co-creator of the character.
Ok, cool. I'm one too, and so are you.If it makes you feel better all the Clintons are cunts too, hell they are fucking cunts. Fair and balanced.
Ok, cool. I'm one too, and so are you.
*Oprah yell*
And you are a cunt, and you are a cunt, you all are CUNTS!!!!!
Another big difference between Roseanne is one thing happened in 2004 or around that time and another happened in 2018. One person seems to have evolved as a comedian and the other thinks comparing black people to monkeys is funny and even in the Malone skit it seems to be more of "dumb jock joke" mixed in with a joke specific to one person in Malone. PLus one was on a comedy show and the other was on Twitter which seems to be a place where people just like to go to rant. Roseanne's rant felt like a rant someone in the 1950's would make and Kimmel's skit is very different than how black face was used back in even more racist times. No really racist black sterotype stuff used. You could have used a white basketball as a example and basically do the same skit without changing one line because him being black wasn't even the point of the skit. In otherwords your not suppose to be laughing because Kimmel was in blackface. Your suppose to be laughing because Jocks and Karl Malone are dumb.
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Can you imagine the consequences if a conservative television personality constantly said and did racist things, called women the c-word among many other misogynistic things, bragged about sexually assaulting women by grabbing them by the c-word (sorry, p-word), and bragged about walking in on naked underage girls to see their c-words? Why, I bet they'd sentence him to 4-8 years in the federal big house surrounded by the swamp. Because you only get in trouble if you have the "wrong" views, amirite?
Moral high ground, ahoy!
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...-adviser-over-anti-hillary-group-called-cunt/
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a39926/trump-supporter-disgusting-hillary-shirt/
Gee that helps.
Trump isn't one, he lacks depth and warmth. Also they're useful, Trump isn't. He's like having testicles growing on your forehead. Weird to look at, a major hinderance to normal life, distorts your view, and probably smells awful.
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