comedians speak out

"The freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all."
—Rowan Atkinson

Excellent speech that—ironically or not—quotes Obama in a pro-free-speech light:

A few Andrew Schulz videos follow.

First up: Schulz takes on Shaun King. King, like Rachel Dolezal, is a white person who identifies as black.* His social-justice and civil-rights efforts have earned him friends and enemies, and the not-so-charitable refer to him by silly nicknames that highlight his black-wannabe status. Among the most famous of these nicknames is "Talcum X," which I find hilarious. In the video below, Andrew Schulz comes up with (or passes along) quite a few more nicknames, which all had me rolling. Takeaway quote: "The speed of allegation is so much faster than the speed of investigation." This is a variant of "Lies circle the world before the truth puts on its shoes." Enjoy:


Here's Schulz on the Confederate flag and "racist" statues:


The above video is going to ruffle some feathers among my conservative readers, but I largely agree with the sentiment. I don't subscribe to arguments that "the Civil War was about states' rights," and I see the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism. My position is laid out in some detail here. I especially like Schulz's point that we're all hypocrites on this question because we continue to benefit from the products born of forced labor: iPhones, Nike shoes, etc., all being manufactured in worse-than-Dickensian conditions. No one has the right to be self-righteous.

Finally, here's Schulz on the question of wearing masks:


Love him or hate him, Andrew Schulz is one quick-witted, funny guy.

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*King claims the father named on his official birth certificate is not his actual father. As far as I know, there's no outside support for this claim. This makes the evidence for King's at-best-fractional blackness anecdotal at best, putting him in the same league as Elizabeth Warren, whose claims of Cherokee ancestry were and are also anecdotal: she took the DNA test and discovered she had almost zero native blood in her. (The Cherokee Nation is also on record denying that Warren is a member.)