I hate stand-up comedy and most stand-up comedians so let me just say Bill Burr’s monologue (especially the part about historical complicity lol) would have been more or less fine if someone else had done it.
There’s just like, a misogyny and profound lack of self-awareness masquerading as some degree of social commentary that makes white men think they can get off jokes like that and it not be completely weird.
White patriarchal world-making constructed and maintain cis white womanhood as the paragon of virtuosity and now that non-white movements are critiquing white women’s self-interested political maneuvering, you’ve found a place for opportunistic punchlines?
It’d be a lot less disingenuous if you (the collective male “you”) just made fun of white masculinity.
Also he looks like Karl Pilkington and sounds a bit like Gilbert Gottfried and it’s just an awful combination
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