#cancelcolbert activist, like, speaks out!- Page 2

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:02pm

Michelle "In Defense of Internment" Malkin!? WOW!

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:49pm

I think it's important to remember Rush Limbaugh caused controversy by using the same term back in 2011. Colbert's whole character is basically entirely based on lampooning him. I don't think this was tone deaf at all. I think it was pretty brilliant, pointed satire.
Asian-Americans slam Limbaugh for childish mockery of Chinese

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:57pm

I think it's a little more Bill O'Liely, no?

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 6:16pm

"Your analysis is triggering."

Cannot wait for it to be in my entry of 'Your fave is problematic'

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 6:24pm

I think he's a comb of the 2.. He faux worships them both on the show.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 8:42pm

She's absolutely the Social Justice Warrior bred on social media like tumblr and twitter- echo chambers that force debates to start already skewed, remove context, constrict argument, and encourage pithiness in order to trend and be shared.

They don't actually make change- they're merely a channel. A hashtag can't change the world, action behind it does.

Suey Park has no action. She has no body of work- a hashtag doesn't make a resume. She is a purveyor of memes under the guise of activism, on a platform she controls with a defense against those who disagree that cannot be argued. She readily admits she does things to provoke and adopts a persona in order to bring attention to hypocrisies and injustice and so on.

Just like Colbert. Except he took his act and criticized a sitting president to his face.

And the sad thing about this particular attempt is that she has probably done harm to the cause of those Native Americans who need the Dan Snyder issue brought to light- not mention harm to her "cause" and all of those who DO put weight behind their social media presence.

There's a generation of young people, in their teens and very early twenties, who believe hashtags and slapping trigger warnings on all of their badly cited angry blog posts and reblogging gifs of someone saying something inspirational at a TED Talk can make a difference.

And that's probably one of the greatest harms the digital age has wrought: complacency in the guise of action.

Updated On: 4/4/14 at 08:42 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 10:33pm

Don't worry! Ronan Farrow will tell us what to do!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 10:42pm

Kad, I can't adequately express my admiration for your post.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/4/14 at 8:20pm

occupy f*ucked up my lunch hour. i hate the occupiers and their drums and their smell. the park still smells. die occupy die.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/4/14 at 9:28pm

Why does this thread exist? Mr Roxy says Colbert is "toast after this latest flap." Discussion over. Editor, please lock this thread.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/5/14 at 12:44pm

If by "toast", the perpetually-befuddled elder meant "currently the top choice for Letterman's successor," then he is dead-on!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/5/14 at 10:27pm

I would love to have known what exactly he knew of the controversy aside from taking the hashtag at face value.

Anyway, Kad's post rocked. Been away from my computer the last couple of days but just wanted to say that.

Since Suey Park totally made the whole debate change the course and go off the rails, I contribute this photo from Cleveland to bring us back to the ridiculousness of the actual subject at hand.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/9/14 at 9:33am

150 years before Colbert's Ching Chong, anotrher attempt at making fun of racism backfired.


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