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Bill Maher's racist on Real Time again
- Thread starter Sweeney Swift
- Start date
It may be racist in the sense that he's associating Popeyes with inner cities, but that's not the same as saying he's saying implying this Congressman in front of him likes fried chicken because he's black which is both racist and WILDLY hostile and aggressive. I think the latter is a bad reading of the joke.
If we can agree on that last sentence, then we're on the same page, because that's really all I'm trying to say.
Going off topic a bit. I've always wondered where this stereotype came from. I don't know a white person alive that doesn't love fried chicken.
The poster you're quoting thinks Bill is racist and made a racist statement, which is the opposite of what you're saying.
At some point you'd figure A) Shut the fuck up with the racist humor and B) Maybe don't do that to the CIA op.
I linked it a bit back. https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...e-did-that-fried-chicken-stereotype-come-from
Basically a popular white supremacist movie came out in 1915. It gestated the imagery and we're living with it to this day. The watermelon thing predates that and goes back to vaudeville iirc.
The "hypocrisy" of many white families also enjoying fried chicken and it being a staple food of the South doesn't stop people from invoking this stereotype, because racists don't care about standards or irony.
At least he didn't say anything disparaging about arabic people this time. Marginal step up.
User warned: Downplaying racism
I agree with his paragraph.
But I'm done replying, thanks for the opportunity. This self destruction might lose us another election, to someone who is even more of an asshole and racist than Maher.
The good ole "oops I did a racism" from Maher again.
Why anyone still is on board with him I don't know. 90s/Early 2000 edgelord tactics don't work anymore when your audience is more politically savvy than you are.
Why anyone still is on board with him I don't know. 90s/Early 2000 edgelord tactics don't work anymore when your audience is more politically savvy than you are.
Your attitude is way more of a threat to liberals and our principles than anything we can do to "help" the right, but you're done replying, so until next time I guess.
Or we can look at Maher's history of "jokes" about what he thinks is or isn't a "real black person" and understand why he pulled out a "fried chicken" joke when having conversation with a black republican.
Bullshit. You don't think Maher is a racist and when people pushed back against your nonsense you tried to use the "I'm a PoC." defense.
You being a PoC doesn't mean you give a shit about racism directed at black people. You defending Maher clearly proves that you don't.
Edit:
Oh, you're clearly trolling. Cowardly bullshit though.
McDonalds
Wendy's
Burger King
Subway
Quiznos
Panda Express
Noodles & Co
Arby's
Chipotle
Qdoba
Panera Bread
Checkers/Rally's
Five Guys
Whataburger
Steak N Shake
KFC
Popeyes
Lol, all the "first restaurant he thought of" takes are so full of shit.
Assload of fast food chains in the US and the first one he thought of was a Fried Chicken joint when making a joke on a Black Man.
Like y'all really think we're fucking stupid out here.
I live in suburbs so I've never seen a Popeyes around a back alley. I don't think I've ever peeped a Popeyes in the city but then again I don't have my eyes peeled for it.
Edit: lemme add Potbelly's cuz I love that joint
Wendy's
Burger King
Subway
Quiznos
Panda Express
Noodles & Co
Arby's
Chipotle
Qdoba
Panera Bread
Checkers/Rally's
Five Guys
Whataburger
Steak N Shake
KFC
Popeyes
Lol, all the "first restaurant he thought of" takes are so full of shit.
Assload of fast food chains in the US and the first one he thought of was a Fried Chicken joint when making a joke on a Black Man.
Like y'all really think we're fucking stupid out here.
I live in suburbs so I've never seen a Popeyes around a back alley. I don't think I've ever peeped a Popeyes in the city but then again I don't have my eyes peeled for it.
Edit: lemme add Potbelly's cuz I love that joint
So based on his long documented history of racist jokes, you don't think Bill Maher, in that quick moment of trying to think of a fast food place for a throwaway one liner, didn't make that stereotype association between black people and fried chicken when he said Popeye's?
If he didn't already have a history of making racist jokes, I might be inclined to see it your way. Maybe. Moreso if Maher was the sort of person who might apologize for saying such a thing. But as we all know, racial prejudices are often deeply ingrained and have a way of continuously revealing themselves in ways both big and small.
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Thanks for that. I honestly never knew and stupidity of it has often baffled me. Like you say, many white families, including my own, love fried chicken and watermelon. I really never got the hypocrisy behind the stereotype. It's just hating just to hate.
I just don't get why the Popeyes joke was made. It has nothing to do with anything. It was literally just a black stereotype.
Yeah this is the issue. Not people like Maher just never taking the hint after being told what the score is time and time again by minorities. Not his rampant stubbornness and doubling down on his bullshit instead of learning and making a genuine effort to be a better ally. Ever think there wouldn't be any "self destruction" if straight white men and women just did better instead of expecting us minorities to just forgive them when they make a career out of fucking up?
I get the opinions that it might not be a racist joke. Popeyes is a better, funnier gag than Burger King or something if you need to use a fast food place. But that only works in a vacuum.
Maher hasn't done this once. The number of "potentially" racist jokes and comments continues to add up and at the end of it all it seems absurd to act like he wouldn't be more careful or measured if he didn't mean the racial stereotype. There's no point being surprised by his shitty jokes anymore but there's also no point defending him as if it's the first time he's made a joke that could be construed as racist. He's past the point. He's racist. I wouldn't waste my time defending this any more than I will the next time Pewdiepie "accidentally" recommends a white supremacist channel.
Some people are trash.
Maher hasn't done this once. The number of "potentially" racist jokes and comments continues to add up and at the end of it all it seems absurd to act like he wouldn't be more careful or measured if he didn't mean the racial stereotype. There's no point being surprised by his shitty jokes anymore but there's also no point defending him as if it's the first time he's made a joke that could be construed as racist. He's past the point. He's racist. I wouldn't waste my time defending this any more than I will the next time Pewdiepie "accidentally" recommends a white supremacist channel.
Some people are trash.
I mean this is a pointless question to ask in a world with Ben Carson, clarence Thomas, candice whatever and kanye west.
There is always that black person who is a jester the white supremacist.
This may be one of the most idiotic analogies I've ever seen. First, yes, if you remove the racial component of a racist joke, it's not going to be racist anymore. Two, Popeyes has no association with CIA agents, so the joke you mentioned barely relates except to treat occupation as equivalent to race.
We really need a stickied "Racist Fuckery Megathread." This shit happens way too often to be handled case by case.
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I've seen better 55th posts from people than this, don't know if I've seen worse
Out of all the ways to ding a Republican CIA operative, "haha you eat fried chicken" doesn't even place on my rankings.
A fried chicken place that has a motherly black woman as their advertising spokesperson.
Yes but we're discussing this place. Folks who aren't black love telling black people what isn't or isn't racism.
A fried chicken spot with the driest of dry biscuits.
"Restaurant" is being very generous.
So I watched the entire show, prior to this segment he made a joke about how 'Trump pardoned a bucket of fried chicken' on the first day of black history month.
I'd assume his comment was a leftover in his head from the previous joke.
I'd assume his comment was a leftover in his head from the previous joke.
Yeah folks need to be a little more subtle in their trolling. They should follow Hero Protagonist's example.
It's alright.
