Well, I don’t think most people are telling him that he can’t say that. I think most people are saying that it isn’t funny and his opinions are shitty, but most* people aren’t calling for a boycott or for him to be fined or jailed. As is always that case, he’s free to try anything. We’re free to tell him it sucks.

“Hitler was right about everything” is also just an opinion. Merely saying that something is an opinion is not a meaningful defense.

George Carlin would typically punch up, though. Yes, he did do a lot of stuff about “Political Correctness,” too, but there is a looooooong way to go between saying “We should stop being such babies about everything” and saying “I don’t believe those people were really raped, and if so, hey, it’s Michael Jackson,…

Remember when white people used Chris Rock’s “Black people and N*****s” bit as cover for a whole bunch of terrible opinions? Well I work with people who will happily and unironically repeat what Dave said. Even if he doesn’t believe this shit, he’s making it worse.

Fuck that shit. This shit ain’t funny, and he’s out here joking around like it is. Fuck you for defending him too.

Between this and the transphobia, can we finally accept that however cool Dave Chappelle might have been once, he’s pretty much a terrible person now?

Abusers don’t universally abuse everyone they come in contact with. There are plenty of women Bill Cosby came in contact with who he didn’t rape. We’re more concerned with the 30-40 that he did. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?

Futurists have been saying that technological advancements will render human labor unnecessary since the spinning jenny was the latest and greatest. The capitalist class will always find a way to keep us exchanging labor for scraps. 

“Everyone knows what western civilization entails”

Yep. Racists being racist. That’s all you got? “Don’t like it, leave”?

Also, +1 for the “everyone knows” and the wrong conjugation of your. But please, keep telling everyone how not racist and awful a person you are. Its going so well. 

 

So the “west” is all of Europe, all of the United States and Canada post-1492, plus the Middle East, plus India, plus China?

So if she is an Isalmaphobe why is one of her pet campaigns one that combats the spread of misinformation about Islam (and misogyny and racism and antisemitism and.....)?

That's a funny way of spelling "Jewish".

Virulent racist defends fellow virulent racist. News at 11.

According to the Crimson, Ajjawi—who was attending Harvard on a scholarship awarded by the international education non-profit AMIDEAST...

I think I would have titled this “Asshole has point about cellphones, is still an asshole”

Oh, any minute now, Bari Weiss will come running.

Fortunately there’s a huge industry of important people complaining about censorship on campus that’s going to spring to this kids defense. I can’t wait to see the free speech warriors jump in on this obvious high profile example.

Listen to Libertarians talk about charter schools and privatizing public services. They talk about it like it's a theory and are oblivious to real world examples.

I wonder if any libertarians are bothered by the fact that a basically free market, relatively laissez faire media landscape has led to the most highly rated cable “news” channel essentially becoming a propaganda arm for a presidential administration. Like, that apparently what a significant plurality of cable news…

So to recap, Mr. “Our Society is Collapsing Because Free Speech on College Campuses is Being Threatened by Snowflakes!” is trying to get a media professor fired for a bit of criticism delivered as a harmless, pithy joke.