The point of Colin Kaepernick’s protests was to draw attention to the epidemic of police brutality against non-White people. He said as much himself.

Louis CK is absolute trash and […] [t]he fact that you think he’s not

Seriously, “ironic” or “insincere” edginess is not actual edginess. It is what people with a defective sense of empathy think edginess looks like.

Hey DayBreak, maybe I should go fuck your mother, see how she likes being bent over the table and held down.

I did not see any attempt at sarcasm in his stunt. I saw him ask two men to hold up a sign saying “Death to All Jews”, then laugh at them doing so. What makes his “joke” indistinguishable from an actual anti-Semite doing the same thing?

How can you, with the certainty of God, separate the people who are actually anti-Semitic and the people saying anti-Semitic things “for the lulz”?

Your little rant there is the exact sort of thing that I was thinking of when I said elsewhere that PDP might take the wrong lesson away from this.

I do not believe PDP is a racist or an anti-Semite. But he did make the decision to put anti-Semitic jokes/gags in his videos.

I doubt he believed there would be a backlash, or at least one of this magnitude. He had done similar “jokes” and “gags” before without pissing off his sponsors, after all.

…it was a gotdamn joke, son, calm yourself down before you give yourself a stroke.

Especially since Konami axed “Silent Hills”. Why worry about ripping off the competition when the competition ceases to exist?

It’s so obvious than someone should not want the death of all the jews, I mean, how can someone write that sentence literally in that day and age.

You do not see anti-Semitism in a bit where two men hold up a sign that says “Death to All Jews”?

Look, I understand that entertainers need some space to work on their acts and all. Stand-up comedians arguably have it the worst, since they have to workshop their routines by going out and actually doing them. And I also understand that some jokes are not for everybody, in that different people have different senses…

There was no joke. He had two men hold up an anti-Semitic comment and laughed about it. Whatever social commentary or satirical point he thought he was making died at the exact moment he decided to keep that bit in his video.

His saying the word “Jew” was not the issue.

He may not have intended to support anti-Semitic causes, but he knew what kind of reaction those anti-Semitic “jokes” would get and he left them in his videos anyway.

Eh, I still have problems with The Major seemingly getting the “Other M” treatment, in that she seems to be more of a passive character than an active one (in re: character agency). Johansson’s mediocre acting does not help dispel this feeling.

His success has given him a huge following. He made anti-Semitic jokes in videos aimed at entertaining said following. If he expected all of his fans to see those jokes as “satire” — or expected any Jewish fans not to take offense at those jokes — he deserves whatever backlash he got for it.

Oh, how nice, he begged Fiverr to unban the two men he hired to hold up a sign that said “Death to All Jews”.