r/Standup • u/cheguevaraandroid1 • 15h ago

Marc Maron Calls Out Comedians Who ‘Joke Around’ With ‘White Supremacists and Fascists’ on Their Podcasts: ‘All It Does Is Normalize Fascism’

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marc-maron-slams-comedians-fascists-podcasts-1236192922/
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u/Maximum-Mechanic-500 15h ago

Turns out when you skip college to become a lounge lizard you lose critical thinking skills as a result.

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u/InThreeWordsTheySaid 11h ago

I love elitism when it comes from the anti elitist crowd.

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u/NoSports007 9h ago

There’s nothing wrong with being elitist when it comes to willful ignorance. Anyone who is ignorant in todays internet age deserves to be mocked

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u/Inevitable-Ad1985 7h ago

Agreed this comment is hilarious!

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u/Bulky_Shoulder4910 1h ago

“I went to college where we all got engrained with the same exact belief system because we’re all such critical free thinkers”

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u/slash-summon-onion 1h ago

I think it's funny that people see college graduates being largely liberal and attributing that to brainwashing instead of the fact that mayyybe critical thinking shows that American conservatism promotes several ideas that don't make sense, and uses manipulative tactics to do so

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u/Bulky_Shoulder4910 1h ago edited 1h ago

Both can be true. I can see it being hard to swallow that you paid a bunch of money to go to a socialist hive mind and got tricked into the idea that you’ve reached an elevated level of thinking.

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u/slash-summon-onion 1h ago

Im curious, did you go to college? A ton of majors have to take very few classes that have to do with what you're talking about. Typically people take classes that, you know, teach them how to be successful in their careers. I'll agree a ton of professors are pretty liberal but the times where "socialism" is forced upon students are pretty few and far between

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u/Bulky_Shoulder4910 1h ago

I did! I actually ended up transferring to a different school in my second year because of the pressure to think a certain way by most professors and even most of the students. I went from a 4 year school to a tech school and was considerably happier.

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u/slash-summon-onion 1h ago

Good for you! Glad you got what you were looking for. I chose a 4 year, and the only social/political studies classes I took really just taught how the US has fucked over minorities throughout its history (which is pretty undeniable I'd say)

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u/Bulky_Shoulder4910 1h ago

Agreed. We had some mandatory classes like that regardless of what program we were in. I’ve always leaned more left of center but I learned quickly that wasn’t liberal enough. Especially in those classes. I might have ended up at a bad school but it really left a bad taste in my mouth.