I just finished watching the special and I have to say it certainly isn't worth all of the controversy it seems to be attracting. A few people in this thread haven't even seen it yet are pointing at this like it is the worst thing that's happened in America. It isn't. When I read headlines about this comedy special that are something along the lines of, "The wrong white guys are liking this special.", it makes me want to shake the writer and say, "Will you please f****** stop doing this. This s*** is why that douchebag Trump got elected in the first goddamn place." Having said that i felt the special it self was pretty good and the epilogue was was nice bow top. Time seemed to fly by as a watched it. Is it his best? No, but I will be chuckling to myself about it for days to come.
As far as I can tell people's main problem with a special is his LGBT jokes and it's kind of got me a bit confused. Does the LGBT community not want to be treated like everyone else? Why is it okay to poke fun at literally everyone else, but somehow they are special and have to be put on this safe exclusionary pedestal? The left always preaches inclusion, but making all of these safe spaces is not inclusion. That certainly is not to say the right is for inclusion. They can't really hold hands, because they're too busy clutching their guns and tiki torches.
To me, it always sort of felt a bit oddly pandering and insulting, because the subtext is that you feel a person that is so weak and fragile that they cannot take a joke. It's been my understanding that a big problem in the LGBT community is that they don't feel like they really belong anywhere for most of their lives. What is more inclusive than sitting down in a group of people who are all laughing, making fun of themselves, laughing at how ridiculous and tragic this world can be?
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