Trump thinks he is the smartest man in the room.

Doing a gag that got him positive attention from White supremacists and anti-Semites, cost him a multimedia deal with Disney, and cost the people working on his YouTube show their jobs was a good thing?

It is more telling that he views his entire fanbase — a group of more than fifty million people from multiple countries — as a monolithic entity that he somehow “knows”. Only someone with the certainty of a god, a politician, or a fool would claim to “know” how everyone reacts to his work.

every time he’s at the center of a controversy, he gets more defensive than introspective

No one in this comment has the right to be a judge for comedy.

The “just joking” defense is a load of shit.

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…