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am_Unition  ·  563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trevor Noah's Full Speech at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Trevor Noah proves that the people saying "we can't make jokes anymore because everyone gets offended so easily!" really just wanted license to continue being openly racist, sexist, and anti-LGBTQ+.

But let's say you only have license to really savage your own gender, race, and sexual orientation. Holy hell, as a white cis-hetero male, I once again find myself at an advantage.

Caught a few minutes of a recent Chappelle's stand-up set, and it was... yikes. It's only funny to one political bent; Fascists and fascist-adjacents. What a disappointing career trajectory.