Racist Rainbow — Page 2

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Jordan Catalano said: "Please post links to all your social media from a decade ago as well, so we can compare."

That's such a lame and unimaginative response. If the OP was a celebrity (or niche-industry-celebrity-adjacent as it were), their social media would be up for discussion. The difference is they likely never posted racist and transphobic **** that wouldn't have been funny even 8-10 years ago. Regardless of how our lexicon may have changed, it was never funny to make marginalized people the punchline in bad jokes.

Also, hot take: Rainbow is NOT funny. Give me Cole Escola any day.

>that wouldn't have been funny even 8-10 years ago. Regardless of how our lexicon may have changed, it was never funny to make marginalized people the punchline in bad jokes.

Listen, I don't like Randy Rainbow, I never have but it's kind of silly to say it was 'NEVER FUNNY!' to make marginalized people for bad jokes because it was... people made millions of dollars off insensitive jokes. You may not find it funny, neither do I, but he was largely reflecting the comedy world at the time. That he's not taking ownership and accountability for the statements is the problem, not that he ever made them. He's ****ing idiot for never actually get rid of them...

Updated On: 8/18/20 at 09:26 PM

This is a lot of somethings, though.

Same As It Ever Was said: "JSquared2 said: "And your point for posting tweets that are 10 years old is??

To be fair, if he were a black man making gay jokes you wouldn’t care how old the tweets were.

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Wanna bet?

jesse benet said: "It really is astonishing that celebs+public figures don't think to just.... automatically go back and delete any social posts pre-2015. You'd think the current culture would have people thinking "huh... I've probably said ****ty hurtful things on the internet in the past that don't need to be floating around.""

Knowing the insanity of some internet folks, and that tweets etc. that are taken down still resurface as screen-grabs, likely they figure it isn't worth the effort: someone recorded it to use against them, and it will come out anyway.

And cue millennial pearl-clutching.

I'm black AND asian. This does not offend me. I have to care about you for you to offend me.



Calm down kids.

"This doesn't offend me so it shouldn't offend you" is literally such a stupid argument. I don't care if any of y'all are still willing to blindly support this very unfunny man, but this behavior has gone unchecked long enough and I'm tired of white people (ESPECIALLY white, physically fit gay men) getting a free "racist past" pass. Randy Rainbow is 39. The eldest of these tweets were written when he was 29 and onward. If by 29 you don't understand that these tweets are wrong, you should not have a platform. And his refusal to own up and apologize (literally the bare minimum) just further proves to me, a 23 year old half black gay man, that he is beyond the point where he can change this behavior.

Also, it's not as if he hasn't had problematic tweets in 2020. Like. His behavior is very clearly the same as it was ten years ago.

Would love to hear if BroadwayWorld is planning to end their partnership with him, and if not, why? Why not give his (uninspired) Patti LuPone series to someone without a racist past?

Updated On: 8/19/20 at 02:20 AM

qolbinau said: "The problem is like the ‘Barbara Streisand effect’ by actually acknowledging these tweets and apologising he risks bringing these to the attention of a wider audience, greater increasing the likelihood he is now going to never work again."

I know you want him to apologize (as said earlier in this message), so this isn't meant to be an attack on you of any kind, but I do want to say: if he's more worried about his career than the people he hurt with these tweets, he really hasn't changed at all from ten years ago.

I also want to say that this is the price of being racist. Even if we want to buy the "racist jokes doesn't equal racist person" narrative - which let's be clear, having these thoughts in the first place IS inherently a racist act - he should still be held responsible.

I don't want him to live a life of poverty. But cancel culture does not exist. Especially not for white gay men. He will continue to get Emmy nominations, he will continue to thrive. I just really would like him to receive SOME form of consequences for his abhorrent actions and words. And I think it would be a disgrace (and very telling) for BroadwayWorld to let him off scot-free. Especially after their comment on this thread. I really hope they didn't say that just to be performative.