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Richard D

(8,692 posts)
122. Someone on FB pointed out . . .
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:37 PM
Aug 2017

. . . the deep similarity between the sound of "sheet caking" and "shit kicking".

Sentiment greeny2323 Aug 2017 #1
I guess I don't see how analyzing a comedy bit is an "overreaction." WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #2
I loved that bit and as usual...some attack those on our side instead of attacking the GOP Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #3
Why is critique seen as an attack? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #8
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
I understood exactly where she was coming from...I don't want balanced. Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #92
+1. nt Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #80
Let us all remember who the enemy is HAB911 Aug 2017 #4
+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
Think on it a bit. I'm sure it will come to you. TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #62
As someone who thought Young's feedback was fine, I'm not going to trouble myself. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #73
Don't expect a prize. Expect to be looked at with question. moda253 Aug 2017 #153
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing lunasun Aug 2017 #45
Quoted in the article: tblue37 Aug 2017 #5
Antifa also appears to not like comedy Not Ruth Aug 2017 #6
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
Don't let anyone tell you to shut up. tecelote Aug 2017 #12
Too late, someone already did! WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #19
Perhaps Aran's article was hidden because she said Fey/Liberals are the same as Trump emulatorloo Aug 2017 #82
Thank you so much for the explanation. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #87
Well said. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #13
Thank you. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #18
At first I did think that. After some reflection AllyCat Aug 2017 #14
Thank you for this. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #17
You just dont get it, and after all these years, I think you would have by now. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #151
Do you really think Tina Fey was telling people Sgent Aug 2017 #159
Did I miss something where Tina Fey defended white supremacists? Music Man Aug 2017 #9
Not sure why these critiques are characterized as a "firing squad" or "attacks," but she is WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #15
Bull pwb Aug 2017 #24
"Ignore the assholes" is what people with privilege can afford to do. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #26
So try and do better next time. pwb Aug 2017 #28
Which post, my OP or my responses? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #30
White people of no privilege defeated the nazis for all of us. pwb Aug 2017 #37
Maybe if the army had been better integrated at the time, we wouldn't be talking about Nazis now. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #41
Poor you. pwb Aug 2017 #54
If tell my friend that what they're doing hurts, and they keep doing it, are they really my friend? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #57
You are so noble... tonedevil Aug 2017 #88
White people fought wars for POC rights? Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #152
+1 BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #158
Tina Fey's intent is important. Music Man Aug 2017 #31
Does intent matter if the content is flippant? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #47
I understand your points, and this is all well-taken. Music Man Aug 2017 #95
Excellent summation! (eom) CanSocDem Aug 2017 #140
I'm all for listening to others and how they perceive something, Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #124
Because they are attacks, and rather ridiculous ones at that obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #33
How is it satire if it's her regular persona and simply upholds the status quo? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #52
You are 100% wrong -- it was satire obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #55
Please walk me through, step by step, what Tina Fey was making fun of and how it WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #56
Give up. CanSocDem Aug 2017 #141
No one is saying Fey defended white supremacists, they just disagree with her "stay home" request. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #16
+1000. Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #20
I think her stay home request was absolutely sarcasm. TNNurse Aug 2017 #22
I could take the "satire/sarcasm" explanation if I had also seen Tina Fey do anything ever other WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #27
Sally Hemings was her name. Demit Aug 2017 #59
Ugh! Thank you! WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #61
The Sally Hemmings "joke" was a slam against Thomas Jefferson... SMC22307 Aug 2017 #137
I don't get how it was a joke. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #156
We get it, you don't *do* satire. (n/t) SMC22307 Aug 2017 #162
"She is a performer, not an elected official." WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #29
The rest sounded lime sarcasm, the "stay home" line didn't. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #99
Yes, of course she was -- it was sarcasm, it was satire obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #35
I'm not attacking an ally, I'm just disagreeing with a line in a skit. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #98
You probably didn't notice how she introduced the stay at home thing Demit Aug 2017 #39
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
A good sense of humor also recognizes when something is not funny. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #138
It was funny! Get a sense of humor. Ridiculous nt Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #144
Ridiculous is being mad that people don't find a bad joke funny. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #148
It was very funny. Kentonio Aug 2017 #145
Just because you found it funny doesn't mean it was a good joke. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #147
There's no such thing as a good or bad joke. Kentonio Aug 2017 #166
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
Yes! Some of the criticism uses the Antoinette thing ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #63
I doubt many people would decide to stop based on her skit IronLionZion Aug 2017 #23
+1 ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #25
There have been dumber articles Loki Liesmith Aug 2017 #32
Grow up. n/t NNadir Aug 2017 #34
There is this thing called "satire," and a satire show called "SNL" obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #38
ive said it before only white people can stop this in our country. they will never listen to us or lunasun Aug 2017 #40
Preach. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #65
+ 100000 loyalsister Aug 2017 #105
You are right about Deandre Harris AllyCat Aug 2017 #142
Couldn't disagree more. tavernier Aug 2017 #42
FWIW she did stab white sheets (of cake) with a fork repeatedly NotASurfer Aug 2017 #43
So edgy! Much activist! WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #64
I would have preferred it if she would have eaten a picture of the pope Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #136
Legalize Lonnie Anderson's Hair! H2O Man Aug 2017 #48
This guy totally missed the point of Tina Fey's bit oberliner Aug 2017 #49
Walk me through the point because I missed it too. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #67
Mocking people who think you can just ignore white supremacism oberliner Aug 2017 #69
Then why the rush to purchase sheet cakes, seen here and elsewhere? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #70
I think a lot of people missed the point oberliner Aug 2017 #75
Exactly. Even some here criticising Fey seem to miss the point to. OnDoutside Aug 2017 #84
Can we agree that if so many missed the point, it wasn't good satire? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #86
That's a reasonable point oberliner Aug 2017 #89
I don't think it went over people's heads, I just think it wasn't very good. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #90
Interesting take. BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #50
My take on the cake. forgotmylogin Aug 2017 #154
Yes exactly. BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #155
I love Tina Fey. forgotmylogin Aug 2017 #161
Agree. BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #164
Rather than replying to the OP, I would like to reply to all the white posters who responded. beastie boy Aug 2017 #66
Oh, please BallardWA Aug 2017 #68
Um, find someone who understands sarcams and comedy and ask them about it. I didn't find this bit mulsh Aug 2017 #71
fuck trump... stonecutter357 Aug 2017 #72
Agree 100% ciaobaby Aug 2017 #74
She knows. Why do you think she stuffed her face with cake? SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2017 #94
DURec leftstreet Aug 2017 #76
Wow. That's a profoundly silly sentiment. n/t MrModerate Aug 2017 #77
"Because there are people well just never reach." LudwigPastorius Aug 2017 #78
Where can white women go that black women cannot? Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #79
Move to a red county where you get vetted. You'll figure it out. Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #83
Born & raised in a red parish. Live there now. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #107
To respond to the question, what organizations would be resistant to minorities or their views? Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #109
The area is at least half black. The area goes by money. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #114
this is called forcing an agenda azureblue Aug 2017 #81
What is the agenda that either I or Mr. Young is "forcing"? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #91
WTF indeed. I can't believe the ugliness hurled at you for disagreeing with a comedian. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #100
"Ugliness" hurled at OP? Maybe dial back on the hyperbole emulatorloo Aug 2017 #102
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
They sure do. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #125
riffs off of the sheetcaking bit to make some great points eShirl Aug 2017 #85
WhiskeyGrinder SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2017 #93
Good article! Thanks for the link. Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2017 #96
It's always important to get... tonedevil Aug 2017 #150
To say that Tina Fey, who, people keep telling me, has made a name for herself portraying awkward WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #111
Looks like a LOT of people did not think Fey's "stay home" line was fumny. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #101
Lots of folks not getting satire -- not the first woman on this board to be atatcked obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #106
Fey is not being attacked. Her "stay home" line is being criticized. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #126
Suggesting that a white woman who DIDN'T vote for Trump is responsible for trying to Squinch Aug 2017 #104
S. A. T. I. R. E. VOX Aug 2017 #112
It was S.H.I.T.T.Y. S.A.T.I.R.E. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #115
Yes. It was. nt TooStrong Aug 2017 #123
That's your opinion... whathehell Aug 2017 #129
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
And y'all, we haven't even gotten to the rape joke at the end. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #118
It's okay to keep liking Tina Fey, people! I'm not even mad! WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #119
Intersectionality rears its ugly head once again. romanic Aug 2017 #120
So...you're not a fan? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #121
Someone on FB pointed out . . . Richard D Aug 2017 #122
Tina Fey is on the naughty list! Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #127
she also said Trump was Gorgeous JI7 Aug 2017 #128
I laughed out loud at her sarcasm when saying that. (n/t) SMC22307 Aug 2017 #135
if Tina wanted to still be silly but say something DonCoquixote Aug 2017 #130
She said something. The cake was decorated with the American Flag, and that flag was destroyed. still_one Aug 2017 #132
so that is the big statement? DonCoquixote Aug 2017 #160
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
Jesus Christ, "sheet-caking" is about STRESS/COMFORT eating. SMC22307 Aug 2017 #134
Sometimes UT_democrat Aug 2017 #139
That bit left me cold. I didn't find it funny at all. Coventina Aug 2017 #146
Disagree with the premise. Mc Mike Aug 2017 #149
Oy BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #157
Is Tina Fey Sarah Palin? nkpolitics1212 Aug 2017 #165
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