Isn’t responding to hate and violence just called self-defense?

I’m a bit worried about how the “free speech” right wing rally will go tomorrow in Boston. The cops seem to be taking a more aggressive tack against any possible violence at the rally but who knows if they’ll actually nightstick a few nazis this time.

Go back and reread this and the linked articles, please.

I will reserve judgement until the smoke clears on Monday.

What Fey did was just the white, liberal version of Trump’s “both sides” comments.

I’ve heard a lot of well-meaning white people talk about how we should ignore the Nazis or make fun of them and I’m just shaking my head in disbelief.

They have a platform that is almost immeasurably large outside of the internet at this point.

Agreed. And you never know who is watching and might be moved to change their minds about something they didn’t think much about before. My formerly very conservative uncle has actually gone through this, at 60 years old. He now watches Seth Meyers and Colbert nightly and skips the celebrity interviews. He watches…

Freedom to express yourself doesn’t preclude others’ freedom to tell you you are full of shit or wrong, it doesn’t make one free of criticism.

It finally dawned on me why people keep defending Jimmy Fallon despite this colossal screw up and lack of a sincere apology. Jimmy Fallon is the embodiment of white privilege.

STOP THIS FALSE EQUIVALENCE NONSENSE. Someone writing about white women not denouncing hate “correctly” is not as closed minded as a NAZI! Are you fucking kidding me?! Shame on you.

Except Fallon directly contributed to Trump’s normalization with that fawning-ass interview after Trump revealed what a garbage fire he and his supporters are. Honestly, if not for that interview, I’d have no problem with Fallon. But for him to sit here and act like he didn’t play a part in this is ridiculous. Oh,…

Exactly. Fallon mentioned in that NYT piece a few months ago that he wished he would have addressed the hair-ruffling (ostensibly because of the effect it had on his ratings). Yesterday was another opportunity for him to do just that—to acknowledge and atone for having giggled along with a vile, grotesque monster and…

Whether I watched him or not does’t change what he did and didn’t do.

I think we can all agree he’s bad at it, but this isn’t about performing wokeness. It’s about addressing it and not pretending it doesn’t exist because his audience may want some escapism. There’s a fine line between distracting and willfuly ignoring things. His shows aren’t evergreen, they’re just as topical as the…

This is something expected of late night hosts and has been for a long time. Letterman’s show after 9/11 was really sensitive and impactful for a country that really needed them to help cope. They’re on TV and in people’s homes every night making jokes about the news, they sign contracts that last decades. Frankly it…

It’s absolutely fair to say that when the one coming up short was an active participant in normalizing Trump and is still giving weak statements today. If Fallon wanted to stay out of politics, he would stay out of politics. He doesn’t get to have candidates on his show, goof around with maniacs who have built their…

This would be a fair response in another situation. Not when things are this bad.

Totally agree. I just can’t watch the news anymore unless it’s delievered through comedy. Colbert and Meyers and Oliver are doing a great job making me not want to jump off a bridge when I hear the word “Trump”.

I watch Meyers’s monologue and “A Closer Look” every night, along with Colbert’s monologue/opening segment. Between the two of them, they are keeping me somewhat sane. Meyers really did an extraordinary job with this segment, though - above and beyond the usual. His insight is piercing, the writing sharp, the…