This is just a sad stupid story. Comedian Chris Rock is the number one trending topic nationally right now because someone found a video from 6 years ago with him and several other comedians talking race relations.
Now black twitter is crucifying him over it:
Basically, Louis C.K. jokes that he is basically a n-word, and Rock agrees. They go on with the joke for a while but Jerry Seinfeld, who has complained about political correctness publicly, gently declines to participate.
Now Chris Rock is being called a sell out and being called racially charged epithets, because he didn’t speak out against a white person using a racially charged epithet in his presence:
Note how proud Ricky Gervais was of the fact he used the n-word. And Louis CK basically said he’s one because black folks ain’t shit. Chris Rock is getting crucified, but those other two deserve massive smoke.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 23, 2018
This guy has 24k followers on twitter, but he knows more than Chris Rock apparently:
This shit is entirely expected from Gervais and Louis CK but I'm glad at least Seinfeld wasn't there for their stupidity
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 23, 2018
"Hahaha I let my white friends say nigger because we're so cool" is the most Uncle Tom shit
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 23, 2018
There are a lot of black people who think it makes them cool or intelligent to say that white people saying "nigger" doesn't affect them, and it's always the morons who cherish their tokenism more than their dignity
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 23, 2018
And I include Africans in this, but it's the type of person who thinks that if they distance themselves from the "stereotypical" African-American, that if they dress differently, are more articulate, work harder, exist in more white spaces, that they can somehow escape racism
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 23, 2018
And so they not only pretend that they're divorced from the black experience but they sometimes even adopt the prejudices and sneer at the "bad ones". Fucking cowards. And reality always reminds them that you can't delude yourself out of racism.
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 23, 2018
This is just sad and pathetic that they’re ripping apart Chris Rock over a dumb video. These are comedians. What do you expect from them? Boring insipid dad jokes all the time? So stupid.
Jerry Seinfeld, a white man, telling Chris Rock, a black man, that White people shouldn’t say the “N” word tops all the wild things that happened in 2018.
— Ronald Isley (@yoyotrav) December 22, 2018
Except it didn’t happen in 2018, but who cares. The online social media mob wants blood.
Black Twitter, we do not support Chris Rock and any of his work anymore. pic.twitter.com/LtuFAt8dLo
— Juwan (@KingTrillaX) December 23, 2018
Then there’s this idiot:
What was Chris Rock thinking?
— deray (@deray) December 22, 2018
Chris Rock just proved himself to be the COONIEST COONER by allowing those white men to say nigger in his presence and laugh.
— George M Johnson Garçon (@IamGMJohnson) December 22, 2018
This literally made my skin crawl. The fact a white man has to be the voice of reason on racial sensitivity, in the same room Chris Rock is in…. Speaks volumes pic.twitter.com/uVgB7Loeq1
— Krew Season (@AskTrillAC) December 22, 2018
Ironically, there’s a lot of respect for Jerry Seinfeld for not participating in the n-word talk:
Destroying Chris Rock over a video no one even noticed for years is going to stop racism. Yeah, that’ll do it alright.
I think what is happening here is that social media is much more sensitive to social justice warrior mobs, so the standards for offenses are much lower now. People can whine about racism or some other perceived slight and others easily jump on the bandwagon with little to no consequence.
It’s a good thing Chris Rock has already made his millions, hopefully this ridiculous controversy won’t hit him too badly.
UPDATE:
This video is completely in the open. It’s from HBO and there are several versions of it on YouTube.
Here’s the whole thing, for context – it starts at about the 16 minute mark:
Ya’ll have an open thread now. I’ll provide some comment fodder!!!
Coulter is still upset:
TRUMP COULD WIN THIS FIGHT... by holding an oval office address, saying this fight could be over if Dems would fund the wall. Talk about cost of illegals, all the idiotic things govt spends $10 bill on, etc. LET STEPHEN MILLER WRITE THE SPEECH. (He won't. He'll fold)
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 22, 2018
This is funny:
I wanted the best way to tell my neighbor that he tried it with his late night party. So I wrote him a letter and baked him a cake. pic.twitter.com/SxPKAzOHp0
— Candice Marie Benbow (@CandiceBenbow) December 15, 2018
Speaking of comedians:
No Women pic.twitter.com/njywQqFTXY
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) December 21, 2018
LOL:
"WELL ACTUALLY": a sequel to "LOVE ACTUALLY" about why it's problematic
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) December 22, 2018
DC bar offers themed drink specials for federal workers during government shutdown https://t.co/PVUhUtTTJd pic.twitter.com/QqVStYcrk5
— The Hill (@thehill) December 22, 2018
Yup. Have a good evening party people.