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    1. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @EnlightFundy @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      I wasn't referring to you using him.

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    2. (((Just a Flâneur))) { 🇺🇦Cheap Japes For All 🇺🇦}‏ @EnlightFundy 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SubBeck @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      Sorry — I misunderstood. by the way, google “black Piet Netherlands.” I don’t even want to post the photos. And the Dutch are pretty liberal so 🤔...

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    3. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @EnlightFundy @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      It's more socially constructed, as in society has decided ALL blackface is unacceptable, and therefore you're a racist if you do it. But that's a relatively new construct, which is why you see all these liberals being caught doing it years ago when you could get away with it.

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    4. Defenestrated from the Overton Window‏ @dantobias 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SubBeck @CathyYoung63 and

      Blackface and "the N word" have in common that they have been taboo for decades, but the contours of the taboo have recently changed to eliminate pretty much all context and nuance that previously made some uses less stigmatized.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @dantobias @SubBeck and

      I don't think that's universally true -- it seems like blackface of the extreme ministrelry sort was fairly common in some pockets (predominately white universities in the south) until fairly recently

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    6. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @dantobias and

      But after it became unacceptable to do blackface in those universities, liberal comedians continued to do it. But if a blackface pic of Tucker Carlson surfaces, watch out! Nobody can advertise on his show, unlike Jimmy Kimmel, who did it.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SubBeck @dantobias and

      I'm okay with making a distinction between comedians (Kimmel, Silverman, Billy Crystal etc) and political pundits.

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    8. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @dantobias and

      That applies to Shane Gillis too?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SubBeck @dantobias and

      To be a comedian you have to be funny.

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    10. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @dantobias and

      Dont duck the ques, please.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SubBeck @dantobias and

      Not ducking the question. I don't think what Gillis does is comedy as I understand the term.

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        2. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @dantobias and

          I really have to question how familiar you are with his entire oeuvre, as he's not well known. And as you know, people you do not think are funny does not mean they are not comedians, if that's what they make their living at. Lorne Michaels thinks he's funny.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @SubBeck @dantobias and

          That would be more impressive if SNL hasn't been a bad show since 1980s. And also if Michaels hadn't hired Gillis to appease conservatives. https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/snl-conservative-shane-gillis-hire-1203339723/ …

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        1. The real chris beck‏ @SubBeck 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @dantobias and

          Lorne Michaels, longtime student of the theory of comedy and wildly successful comedy empressario - "Shane Gillis is a funny comedian." Meet Heer, not involved in comedy professionally - "He's not a comedian." Hmm...who should I believe?!

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