It’s something I struggle with. Some bad news comes out about some public persona doing something shitty and they get cancelled. But sometimes I really struggle with giving up the things they’ve made because I like them. There are also occasions where the person has been accused of something and it doesn’t seem true to me, or I think they’re genuinely sorry and have been punished enough, and the context isn’t being considered.
What do you think? Who do you feel conflicted about enjoying?
Yeah, but I reckon the saudi arabia trip was the final straw.
For that matter of fact, lost respect for all those who went to the saudi event, bill burr included.
I am going to be controversially unpopular by saying that just simply going to saudi arabia to do a show is nothing. There are still people there who live under a tyrannical regime that they can do little about, who is to say that they don’t deserve some entertainment? Because it would be blanket generalizing to say that everyone in Saudi Arabia is a-okay with what their government does or whatever the prince does. Granted, you can say 90% of the people there approve of whatever the Saudi Prince does, but there’s still that 10% that don’t for him.
Besides, these are a bunch of comedians, not politicians. Political matters in regards to human rights should be handled by politicians who right now, aren’t doing a stellar job except shit out statistics about how bad it is. What can anyone else do? If anyone else outside of a politician or an official’s scope of handling does shit, then that’s grounds to start yet another war, which we don’t need another of considering everything going on right now.
So, you know, you feel whatever you feel. I hate the WWE for doing business with the Saudis which is different than a few comedians just going there to do an event.
No oppressed peasant in SA went to this show. It was entirely done for the SA elites to sanewash the country’s tyranny by inviting other elites to the country to see a comedy show. You see, SA has realized that one of the biggest factors influencing their ability to project soft power is that most of the world wants nothing to do with their no-fun-allowed theocracy. So they do shit like this, and their golf and soccer tournaments, in order to create networking events for their tyrants to bring other oligarchs into the country.
That’s true. And I mean it’s not like America doesn’t have blood on its hand and these comedians make their entire living in America. Even under the better presidents, US has done some vile shit.
I think the difference is that the government directly sponsored the program and paid out millions of dollars for them to do the shows. And personally it was the bill burr hypocrisy. He got millions of dollars to do sane-washing for a billionaire/trillionaire, while he bashes the same thing at home.
Oh shit, I heard so much about Bill Burr, I missed that Louis CK went, too.
Oh well, I liked Louis’ comedy better than Bill’s, but it’s not like I’ll really miss either of them.
fucking a. that one hurt, man.
but yeah, fuck him, and Bill Burr, and Jimmy Carr, and … 😢