Reason.com article - https://reason.com/blog/2018/12/04/c...ts-kick-snl-co
"one of the allegedly inappropriate jokes:
During the event, Patel's performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City—including a joke about a gay, black man in his neighborhood—which AAA officials deemed inappropriate. Patel joked that being gay cannot be a choice because "no one looks in the mirror and thinks, 'this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.'"
The joke acknowledges that black people and gay people suffer oppression, and that a person who is both gay and black suffers "stacked" oppression. This joke seems almost perfectly "intersectional."
Intersectionality, the operating system of the modern left, requires everyone to recognize that different forms of oppression are interrelated, and that they stack. The problem for Patel, however, is that intersectionality also recognizes the oppressed as the sole experts on their own oppression. Thus Patel should not have commented on matters relating to black people or gay people, since he is neither gay nor black."
A couple quick thoughts:
In the US, we seem to be in the middle of an over-correction period. Casual (and often more overt) racism and homophobia were the norm and tolerated by most everyone until recently, now there is a seemingly growing subset who fiercely want to eradicate racism and homophobia by doing the social equivalent of killing a bear with an atom bomb. Is this the only way humans can get to a rational position on things? (going from one extreme to the other and eventually balancing out?)
It appears the oppressed are now using the tactics of the oppressors. Growing up in the 80s/90s it was usually older conservatives who wanted to censor and shut down people down - and college age people made champions out of Frank Zappa (PMRC) Howard Stern (FCC), etc for taking them on. Now it is much more likely for college age liberals to censor, uninvite, and shut off microphones. Tit for tat, I guess?
"one of the allegedly inappropriate jokes:
During the event, Patel's performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City—including a joke about a gay, black man in his neighborhood—which AAA officials deemed inappropriate. Patel joked that being gay cannot be a choice because "no one looks in the mirror and thinks, 'this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.'"
The joke acknowledges that black people and gay people suffer oppression, and that a person who is both gay and black suffers "stacked" oppression. This joke seems almost perfectly "intersectional."
Intersectionality, the operating system of the modern left, requires everyone to recognize that different forms of oppression are interrelated, and that they stack. The problem for Patel, however, is that intersectionality also recognizes the oppressed as the sole experts on their own oppression. Thus Patel should not have commented on matters relating to black people or gay people, since he is neither gay nor black."
A couple quick thoughts:
In the US, we seem to be in the middle of an over-correction period. Casual (and often more overt) racism and homophobia were the norm and tolerated by most everyone until recently, now there is a seemingly growing subset who fiercely want to eradicate racism and homophobia by doing the social equivalent of killing a bear with an atom bomb. Is this the only way humans can get to a rational position on things? (going from one extreme to the other and eventually balancing out?)
It appears the oppressed are now using the tactics of the oppressors. Growing up in the 80s/90s it was usually older conservatives who wanted to censor and shut down people down - and college age people made champions out of Frank Zappa (PMRC) Howard Stern (FCC), etc for taking them on. Now it is much more likely for college age liberals to censor, uninvite, and shut off microphones. Tit for tat, I guess?
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