Why I am standing by Trevor Noah despite his offensive Tweets

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4. I'm guessing

that it's hard to find a comedian at that level who hasn't made some offensive jokes. Am I wrong? I don't know but that's certainly my impression. Our society sees offensive jokes as edgy, so comedians do them at least in part because they know it's what people want to see. I'd seen a few clips from him previously and I remembered them as very funny and very relevant.

I don't like the tweets but I do also feel like sometimes people of color are held to a different standard, and I worry about that in this case too. I have seen a couple of episodes of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and you're right, there's offensive stuff there too.

I guess I see both sides in this. I do think the tweets are offensive and I wish he hadn't made them, but I don't know how many comedians don't make offensive jokes, and I worry about him being held to an different standard than white comedians.