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Cancel Colbert

People love to be outraged, always have. Colbert won't be cancelled, and barring some escalation of the situation nobody will care after a couple months.
 
Welcome to the new America, if you are white, better keep your mouth shut and heads down. You can take freedom and speech and shove it
 
I take offense they call Colbert satire. Perhaps, when he was on the Daily Show, I would consider his character satirical of conservatives, but nowadays it is nothing more than over the top silliness. There is very little finesse left.
 
Someone was offended by a tweet from an account controlled by a television network, so their response is to try to get a comedian kicked off of the same network that posted the tweet in the first place? Makes sense to me.
 
smackababy said:
I take offense they call Colbert satire. Perhaps, when he was on the Daily Show, I would consider his character satirical of conservatives, but nowadays it is nothing more than over the top silliness. There is very little finesse left.
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The Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation joke is quintessential satire. Personally I haven't seen a decrease in satire from Colbert, though I agree that his humor is more silly and over the top than Stewart's (silliness and satire are not mutually exclusive concepts).
 
When people use terms like outraged, or rage, when it comes to a joke, I just think "man, those people lead really shallow and empty lives". It's all just so phoney.

Jim Norton put it best.
"There's nothing wrong with being offended by a joke. You're only an asshole when you expect someone to be punished for it."
 
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