Carlin would kill any bit, but it wouldn't be the same bit. This bit is from the perspective of a black woman, if you just gave those words to a white guy it would fall flat (well, flatter) and of course people would be offended. On the other hand, a white guy could do a routine about slavery from a white perspective…

If you break down what I spend the most time talking about, reading about, writing about, thinking about, etc. the two things I'm most passionate about in life are comedy and progressive politics. I wish I didn't constantly have to defend the former to the latter. Oddly, there are no tensions running the other…

Are you really trying to cast yourself as a lover of comedy and acting like context is so unimportant to it as an art that you could just have George Carlin and Eddie Murphy trade routines with nothing lost in the translation? I certainly agree with you about many people being far too quick to anger when it comes to…

I thought the material was legitimately edgy, perhaps edgier than it was funny but I don't think that invalidates it. One thing I was struck by is that, even when SNL does "black sketches" they overwhelmingly seem to come from a very white perspective, in a way that I always assumed reflected the dynamics of the…

I (and many others) consider being struck with a belt to constitute beating, and the point stands: children whose parents strike them with their hands, a belt, even just a spanking, grow up to be less well-adjusted on average than children whose parents use non-physical discipline. This is a direct counterpoint to…

I'm going to star this because I'm 80% sure it is brilliantly tongue-in-cheek. Consider it retracted if you are genuinely such a bad speller.

It's been mentioned in damn near every article I've read so possibly we have different definitions of "overlooked."

Please point out which school shooters committed their crimes because they weren't beaten as children. Talk about pulling things out of your ass, that would be a pretty unusual trend when you consider that children who are spanked are more likely to grow up to commit crimes than children who are not. People in this…

I kow, without the discipline a good beating provides Sterling's son might have grown up to be a criminal or a drug addict.

Totally, I mean look how well the kid turned out!

"It would be different between us if you didn't have that badge on.."

Probably, although the government prosecuting somebody for making illegal recordings is like the pot calling the kettle black and then secretly storing the metadata of that call.

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The problem with mob justice is in method not spirit; rule of law is not an attempt to subvert it but to distill the good aspects while minimizing the pitfalls. At its root it still serves the same purpose as the ostracism I advocate: to punish those who violate certain norms established by agreement among the…

How does one even question, rather than deny, a tape's authenticity? Either you said those things or you didn't, what part could you be unsure about?

Nah, the right way to solve it is to massively ostracize them so that even a child observing the world around them quickly ascertains that bigotry is a quick ticket to being shunned and despised by your peers. That is how a free society handles undesirable speech and it works fairly well once an issue is embraced…

Uh, yeah, being blatant about it doesn't give anybody a pass on racism, I'm not sure I follow the logic of "we already knew this so it doesn't matter."

Of all the nonsensical garbage in this post I most enjoyed the idea that his girlfriend looks worse for hanging out with a basketball Hall of Famer than fucking a vile old married racist toad for his money. A girl has to think about her image right?

You are better than whoever writes the (not bad!) Bobby Moynihan Guy Fieri bits on SNL.

Also an issue is the mentality of mental health problems = exorbitant medical costs. See also: physical health problems.