I don’t care about embellished stories but using irl people and then making shit up about them is not okay, especially if they’re nobodies and ‘you’ have a huge platform. 

An entire generation wrote this article!? I only see one name credited.

How is this a generational thing? I don’t get the leap it took to entertain your question.

I can’t help but think the whole “all comics embellish the truth” defense is letting him, and frankly comics, off to easy, but maybe I’m primed by these times of emotional truths leading the way. It’s more or less the modern comic mode, to be “truthtellers”, but Minhaj’s brand is very tied to it. I’ve never liked his…

Using photos of a girl who turned you down in a high school to lie about her parents being racist is some deeply fucked up behavior 

Kind of shocked that the Jezebel commentators, not the writers, would be all “But comedians exaggerate” to defend Minhaj after making the most incel type shit story, I’ve heard.

Wait... Hasan Minhaj isn’t Indian/Muslim?

He didn't exactly go to great lengths to conceal her identity either. If you're going to exaggerate or embellish for a joke, at least make the other person unidentifiable. 

“I have a sworn affidavit by the federal police saying she was over 18.”

Yeah but his embellishments caused someone to get doxxed and harassed for something that wasn’t true.

I understand the impulse to just brush this off because “oh, well all comedians embellish for comic effect”. That was my gut reaction too. But this is a little more than that. For starters, Minhaj is one of those comedians who doesn’t even really tell jokes. He’s a clapter comic who goes up on stage to make points for…

Come on, ONE out of every 1000, that’s fair, right?

In fairness, we all sorta thought it’d be children

Ballard reportedly also sent a woman a photo of himself in his underwear and asked another “how far she was willing to go” to save children.

“I’m a bad guy in the story that rescued over 7,000 women and children, can you help me understand that?”

*stated in THEE driest tone I can muster*

like all these al right defenders. Who loved this movie. Who think they are better, people like azhealbaby face, mr h, shadevirsty etc.

I am SHOCKED! Shocked I tell you!

If these allegations are what bring him down, great, but I wish he'd gotten pushed out because of all the lies he told and "sting operations" that really were dress up for rich guys.