• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I mean, he spent decades trying to rehabilitate his pal Kramer after he melted down and shouted the n-word at members of his audience.

    Now he’s saying he’s okay with genocide as long as the victims are brown or the wrong religion and they have real estate he’d like.

    Seems like he’s consistent.

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      16 hours ago

      The Michael Richards incident was a literal one time event, albeit a terrible one. There were zero instances before and zero instances after that suggest Richards is racist. Everything since then Michaels has done suggests he’s exceedingly remorseful over it.

      I am not excusing it in the least, but I don’t think it’s even close to fair to compare him to someone currently supporting the genocide in Palestine.

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        6 hours ago

        You don’t really throw a racial slur “just one time”; but when you try to not use it in public, one slip up happens.

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              16 hours ago

              I’m not saying Richards was funny, I’m saying there is a difference on the baddie scale between someone who vocally and current supports genocide and someone who said something racist once twenty years ago.

              • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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                15 hours ago

                Nuance, man. Some people just can’t compare qualitatively and can’t understand nuance.

                Like the stein voters who couldn’t do harm reduction and just three their votes in the chipper.