Backlash after "racist" Stephen Colbert tweet

[Human Torch]

Great, give us the month where we have to compete with both Easter and Passover. The 32 Asian-Americans who either aren't Christians or married into Jewish families will have a great celebration.

At least you're getting a month.I'm still waiting for the Italian "If we didn't invent it,discover it,or cook it,you don't need it" Heritage month. t:

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

It's good to know there are still people, with too much energy and money, who are committed to manufacturing outrage at what was clearly satire aimed precisely at those who really are bigots. It's Colbert. They either don't understand Colbert, or they're cynically pretending not to in order to gin up publicity for their absolutely useless and irrelevant PC crusade.

 

[Pink Ranger]

At least you're getting a month.I'm still waiting for the Italian "If we didn't invent it,discover it,or cook it,you don't need it" Heritage month. t:

You guys have the best food, the best clothes and nobody thinks it's weird if you live with your parents until you're 40. EVERY month is Italian month.

 

[Human Torch]

You guys have the best food, the best clothes and nobody thinks it's weird if you live with your parents until you're 40. EVERY month is Italian month.

 

[terry78]

Stephen Colbert the character has said many homophobic things on his show, and you don't see GLAAD going after him. Oh yeah, because he's playing a fictional character on TV. It's like trying to prosecute Tom Hiddleston for killing all those police officers in The Avengers.

As an Asian person, I cannot stand Asian-American activist groups. There's racism out there, but they always miss the point of everything and go after the wrong targets.

Ironically a people so well versed in math seem to miss the odds.

 

[runawayboulder]

Twitter is fuel for stupid people.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Ironically a people so well versed in math seem to miss the odds.

Those of us that are good at math and computers have actual jobs that keep us away from this kind of thing.

It's the Asian-Americans who thought their fine arts degrees would lead somewhere that get into activism, not realizing how low the Asian community is perceived in the anti-racism movement.

 

[Sawyer]

"Someone said something about a group they don't belong to??? WE SHOULD ALL BE OFFENDED BY THIS!!!!"

- The internet in this day and age

 

[jmc]

What annoys me is that people are unable to read between the lines of what was said. I remember during the recent outdoors NHL series of games the LA Kings (I think) tweeted an image of the outdoor hockey rink set up with the caption 'A great day for hockey in LA - said nobody'. People blew up about it because they thought it was a dig at the sport when it was clearly a humorous observation of outdoor hockey in an area you wouldn't normally associate it with.

 

[runawayboulder]

"Someone said something about a group they don't belong to??? WE SHOULD ALL BE OFFENDED BY THIS!!!!"

- The internet in this day and age

Remember when the Internet was fun?

Now it's everyone's ugliness shining through for all to see.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I can only laugh at people's over sensitivity at this point.

Its not sensitivity, it's stupidity.


Though I guess the can be (and often are) the same thing.

 

[Sawyer]

I just hate this culture of outrage we're living in the middle of. Sometimes it's justified, other times (and from what I've seen, alot of the time).... knock it the **** off.

 

[BestGirl]

What rock are these people living under that they don't know Stephen Colbert's shtick?

On the plus side, I'm sure he'll get mileage out of this "scandal" on his show.

 

[Victarion]

I find it enjoyable for the most part. Most of my visits to those sort of sites are the equivalent of sticking a bottle rocket powder down in a hornet's nest. I had the gall to make a post to the effect of "Fat privilege is being able to enjoy cheesecake" in response to the Thin Privilege movement.

 

[Warhammer]

People are so quick to get offended. It's like they're just itching to get mad. There was no malicious intent in that tweet.

 

[Warhammer]

I just hate this culture of outrage we're living in the middle of. Sometimes it's justified, other times (and from what I've seen, alot of the time).... knock it the **** off.

I never watch Piers Morgan but I actually watched that episode. Ricky Gervais was on fire that night.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

What I read is that it was from the official Colbert Report Twitter account which is not run by Stephen and it usually post in character. He tweeted from his personal account that it wasn't him but he hashtagged it cancelcolbert haha

 

[Doctor Evo]

What I read is that it was from the official Colbert Report Twitter account which is not run by Stephen and it usually post in character. He tweeted from his personal account that it wasn't him but he hashtagged it cancelcolbert haha

Colbert thrives on this type of thing. He's probably loving it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I have A Modest Proposal for these people...

Ah, nevermind. Some probably wouldn't get it.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I just hate this culture of outrage we're living in the middle of. Sometimes it's justified, other times (and from what I've seen, alot of the time).... knock it the **** off.

Even when it's justified, the hordes of social media thought-police create such an ugly lynch-mob that the punishment is far worse than the crime.

Take the businesswoman who made the crack about getting AIDS in Africa. It was an unbelievably tasteless and horrible joke. But did she deserve to lose her job, be publicly villified and have her life basically destroyed by thousands of strangers? It's so Orwellian.

We don't need to worry about the NSA monitoring everything we say. We ARE the NSA. We are our own thought police.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Even when it's justified, the hordes of social media thought-police create such an ugly lynch-mob that the punishment is far worse than the crime.

Take the businesswoman who made the crack about getting AIDS in Africa. It was an unbelievably tasteless and horrible joke. But did she deserve to lose her job, be publicly villified and have her life basically destroyed by thousands of strangers? It's so Orwellian.

We don't need to worry about the NSA monitoring everything we say. We ARE the NSA. We are our own thought police.

Zombie J Edgar Hoover approves.

The main difference is the pc-crowd is critical of statements you want very much to make public and they decide if you're guilty or not based on debated public sentiment while the NSA obtains information most of us want to keep private and a group of spies decide a course of action in secret with no public oversight.

You want to be able to feed the public with any poisonous rhetoric while the public stays helplessly silent and allows you to continue? The public should speak out against ignorance rather than quietly accept it.

Is it annoying dealing with political correctness? Yes.

But the opposing extreme where racism is accepted and/or encouraged is beyond annoying, it's downright dangerous.

The problem with the #cancelcolbert effort is that it's misinformed, not that it tries to attack racism. As a society we should attack racism. The problem is it's a knee jerk attack on anti-racist satire.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I pronounce Colbert the correct way, [Coal-bert], not [Coal-bear]...

He ain't fooling nobody! t:

Oh yeah, what did he do/say that has people in a pickle this time?

A tweet was sent based on a satirical joke Colbert made that criticized the Redskin owner's half-hearted attempt to reach out and help Native Americans and people mistook the satire as racism.

 

[Teelie]

Only Colbert had nothing to do with the tweet. It was some Comedy Central employee with a poor choice of tweet material.

 

[redhawk23]

Only Colbert had nothing to do with the tweet. It was some Comedy Central employee with a poor choice of tweet material.

It was a tweet directly quoting him from the show though.

 

[Teelie]

A direct quote that was taken out of its context on the show. It's akin to taking something you said and removing the context to make it look like you meant something else entirely.

So instead of him clearly satirizing racism, it looked like he was being racist. It's why every time I see a "quote" from some politician used by their opponent I have to roll my eyes out of their sockets.