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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]Music Man
(1,184 posts)The joke about a 6'4" black drag queen beating a white supremacist is about poetic justice, not about the inherent characteristics of being black. I suspect most people take it that way. I was amazed to see a Twitter post on an article saying something along the lines of, "Not all drag queens are black, Tina Fey," as if she wouldn't know this. Just a silly backlash.
Tina Fey is far from the first person I've seen advocate not giving neo-Nazis coverage. I think they're very wrong, but I'm able to disagree about tactics without jumping to "she's tone deaf on race." She is a COMEDIAN! This is how she comments on things. Reminds me of people who would criticize Jon Stewart with "Oh yeah, smart ass? Why don't you try doing some actual journalism if you think it's so easy. WE'RE actually in the game trying to do something--you have the luxury of just making jokes." It's what Fey, Stewart, and other liberal commentators do.
Tina Fey should "go talk to white women" about this? Where? In what venue? At a luncheon? A PTO meeting? She is an actress, and television is her medium, and to de-legitimize her mode of commentary is incredibly presumptuous.