Yep, Eddie Murphy's played, 'whiteface' and Jews stereotypes and that's because he was making the comedy he wanted.

Murphy was doing that at a time where comedic freedom was still important. That's what every comedian should be able to do and the only limit upon it is how funny they are.

There shouldn't be politics involved. The people who have destroyed comedy are those that have set limits upon it other than its market value.

I agree, that some humour is distasteful and inappropriate....however when we get to the stage where people want to economically harm those who tell jokes they don't like.....then you know the loonies are in control.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Jun 2020 5.12pm)

I never said they were and didn't make excuses for the behaviour. I said that to pick one person, especially the angriest person they could find, as the representative of hundreds of thousands of people is alarmist. It's the kind of thing that just stokes tensions. If someone had chosen a peaceful person as representative of black lives matter that wouldn't have been true either but at least it may have helped to calm tensions.
The tweet was labelled as 'The true face of Black Lives matter' as though all the other protestors who were peaceful were not supporters at all but the angriest person they could find was the one true representative.
People from both sides do this and choose the most extreme examples as 'The one true face' which is not generally true but does help to solidify people's beliefs and create more anger and resentment towards people on the opposite side.

Edited by sitdownstandup (22 Jun 2020 4.06pm)

If you had money like Clinton and Trump you could weasel your way out of it. The left would call it 'white privilege' but really it was about class and hence money.

The blacks had less of it so fought in proportionally higher numbers than their population.

Vietnam was a lesson that democracy can't defeat authoritarianism regardless of the power difference because one cares about life far more than the other.

That lesson could have been learnt from previous wars but well, if you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.

Democracies can only fight defensive wars.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Jun 2020 5.43pm)

Yep, Eddie Murphy's played, 'whiteface' and Jews stereotypes and that's because he was making the comedy he wanted.

Murphy was doing that at a time where comedic freedom was still important. That's what every comedian should be able to do and the only limit upon it is how funny they are.

There shouldn't be politics involved. The people who have destroyed comedy are those that have set limits upon it other than its market value.

I agree, that some humour is distasteful and inappropriate....however when we get to the stage where people want to economically harm those who tell jokes they don't like.....then you know the loonies are in control.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Jun 2020 5.12pm)

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Double standards?