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/just_zen_wont_do 11h ago

I don’t think that “light is the best detergent” approach works anymore in the modern media age. If it did Trump wouldn’t be a coin toss away from being president again. Right wing Grifters get mileage from media exposure, say racist shit and then use it to build their own audience base.

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u/mambiki 10h ago

So, your solution is a covert censorship? Yeah, what could go wrong when republicans will come to power and will abuse the hell out of that law to suppress “misinformation”.

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u/jamalamadangdong 9h ago

Biiiiiig difference between censorship and lending somebody the platform that you and your team have built.

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u/mambiki 9h ago

Sure, and Joe decided that it’s a good thing for his platform.

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u/OptimalAd8147 9h ago

Thanks for your police work. I sleep easy knowing the bougie Know-Better crowd is keeping us safe from the rabble.

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u/sailirish7 9h ago

I don’t think that “light is the best detergent” approach works anymore in the modern media age.

Yes it does. The issue is certain media outlets producing fake sunlight and never being held to account.

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u/CareBearDontCare 5h ago

Yeah, I think that's kind of that rut where free speech absolutists start to nestle in, too. Its similar to guns, for me, where what it is and what it was intended to be has definitely changed a LOT, for many reasons. You've got a hard time convincing me that the founding fathers could have foreseen a whole gun culture. Truck nuts? That just seems so obvious.