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In reply to the discussion: How Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women [View all]tblue37
(65,340 posts)5. Quoted in the article:
. . . the last time we let Nazis scream into the empty air, it ended up in a fucking genocide.
I also found this comment on that article:
Isnt responding to hate and violence just called self-defense?
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How Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women [View all]
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
OP
I loved that bit and as usual...some attack those on our side instead of attacking the GOP
Demsrule86
Aug 2017
#3
The harm was that people can't tell if it was a comedy bit, or an extension of her beliefs.
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2017
#11
+1. I mean, JFC, it's like you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't try to speak up.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#36
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference .....
lunasun
Aug 2017
#46
Yep. But how many Dems differ from Reps: If Dems speak up, others in the party will critique them.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#51
This isn't about damning. It's about listening to how people hear you, and then taking stock
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#53
It's about correcting people trying to help instead of building on someone else's statements.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#58
I'm curious how this feedback for Tina Fey could be given in a more "positive" way. What would that
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#60
As someone who thought Young's feedback was fine, I'm not going to trouble myself.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#73
No, I'm not a member of Antifa, but I too found no humor in Fey's call for inaction.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#10
I'm a little confused why people think critiques of Fey's bit are "hating" or somehow give aid and
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#7
Perhaps Aran's article was hidden because she said Fey/Liberals are the same as Trump
emulatorloo
Aug 2017
#82
You just dont get it, and after all these years, I think you would have by now.
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2017
#151
Not sure why these critiques are characterized as a "firing squad" or "attacks," but she is
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#15
Maybe if the army had been better integrated at the time, we wouldn't be talking about Nazis now.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#41
If tell my friend that what they're doing hurts, and they keep doing it, are they really my friend?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#57
How is it satire if it's her regular persona and simply upholds the status quo?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#52
Please walk me through, step by step, what Tina Fey was making fun of and how it
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#56
No one is saying Fey defended white supremacists, they just disagree with her "stay home" request.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#16
I could take the "satire/sarcasm" explanation if I had also seen Tina Fey do anything ever other
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#27
Oh I noticed it. Please don't assume those of us who didn't like the "stay home" line are stupid.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#97
Oh fer cryin' out loud. People need to get a sense of humor. It was a comedy sketch.
Honeycombe8
Aug 2017
#117
I liked the skit. I also recognize it was, for the most part for and/ or about white people.
ismnotwasm
Aug 2017
#21
Funny how we interpret things differently. I took the cake bit as a hit on 45 eating cake while
seaglass
Aug 2017
#44
ive said it before only white people can stop this in our country. they will never listen to us or
lunasun
Aug 2017
#40
I would have preferred it if she would have eaten a picture of the pope
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#136
I don't think it went over people's heads, I just think it wasn't very good.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#90
Rather than replying to the OP, I would like to reply to all the white posters who responded.
beastie boy
Aug 2017
#66
Um, find someone who understands sarcams and comedy and ask them about it. I didn't find this bit
mulsh
Aug 2017
#71
To respond to the question, what organizations would be resistant to minorities or their views?
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2017
#109
WTF indeed. I can't believe the ugliness hurled at you for disagreeing with a comedian.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#100
It's not hyperbole. Telling someone to "grow up" or that they're too humorle to get a joke is ugly.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#103
That's your idea of an "ugly personal attack"? Ok, thanks for the examples. Appreciate it n/t
emulatorloo
Aug 2017
#108
Meh, it doesn't bother me -- hit dogs holler when it comes to privilege, though, I've found.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#110
To say that Tina Fey, who, people keep telling me, has made a name for herself portraying awkward
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#111
Lots of folks not getting satire -- not the first woman on this board to be atatcked
obamanut2012
Aug 2017
#106
Suggesting that a white woman who DIDN'T vote for Trump is responsible for trying to
Squinch
Aug 2017
#104
I mean, I guess I could see the satire angle if Tina Fey has a record of regularly protesting and
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#113
Why do so many people need Tina Fey's sheetcaking bit to not be problematic?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#116
She said something. The cake was decorated with the American Flag, and that flag was destroyed.
still_one
Aug 2017
#132
That is exactly what Michael Che did, and made a point of it at the climax of the routine
still_one
Aug 2017
#163
The sheet cake was a metaphor for how hopeless many Americans feel now, as hate groups are
still_one
Aug 2017
#131
I thought the heart of the joke was when Fey said there were not only Nazis and ...
betsuni
Aug 2017
#133
I didn't view the routine as a joke, and each bite of that cake was representative of the
still_one
Aug 2017
#143