The left needs to get better at allowing people to make mistakes if they want to have a hope of correcting them. Not everyone is as insightful as Bill, and even he admits it took mushrooms to give him the self reflection.
I always defend comedians because they have to make people laugh. If your job isn't forcing you to be edgy or push the boundaries AND you're a bigot? Nah. I've got no patience left for them. They get both barrels(figuratively! geez that saying is deader than aw fuck it).
It's okay to be offended at jokes, it's okay to not like a comedian for the jokes they make. It's super not okay to language police. There is one word we don't say, we don't need to add more to the list, as if any other word will ever have that kind of power.
all the cable news networks are just propaganda machines for the insurance companies if you watch the the retirement Insurance commercials that they constantly play
A little over the top (labeling CEOs “ mass murderers” is over the line) but he’s on point. The profit motive makes people do terrible things. And we have a system that doesn’t do enough to reign in their worst instincts.
I’ve got to disagree. Hitler didn’t pull the trigger either, he just gave the orders. It’s all so neat and clean, “the CEO’S are just doing their jobs!” When your job is to decide who lives or dies, and you decide to let people die so you can make more money, you’re complicit.
The system is the way it is because these giant healthcare corporations and their bigwigs have made it that way. They aren't just taking advantage of some flaws they discovered during work one day. Their work was putting those flaws into laws.
Except for the fact that he remains an unrepentant anti-Asian racist. “Whenever you have the flu or Covid, you always lay in bed and try to figure out who gave it to you, just going through this rolodex of people that coughed on you, sniffled near you, walked by an Asian or something." - Bill Burr
He's making fun of the paranoia Americans had around people of Asian descent following covid. I don't know what your experience was like, but hate against Asian communities skyrocketed in part due to Trump's inflammatory rhetoric. The joke isn't at the expense of asians, it's about our own paranoia.
He'd been doing it without "irony" until he got booted off SNL before he even got started. When you're Asian, you get the brunt of these jokes (I was mocked by teenagers the day after the election - typical during the first Trump term) and I hate those "jokes" even if he's spinning it as ironic.
That's fair, I know those things can affect people even just by reminding them of the real hatred in the world. I'm not suggesting you should like him, I just wanted to offer perspective.
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We all know how his wife feels about Orange Manson.
Was thrilled when he showed up in Breaking Bad.
I'm just judging from his "comedy".
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