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Hilarious short skit of MLK trying to navigate 2019's 'social sensitivities'..

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This very well produced & acted skit speaks for itself, so I can omit the long-winded post describing it(not that I ever have that sort of problem or anything. Lol).

 
Kinda funny 6.5/10
 
ModerationNow! said:
This very well produced & acted skit speaks for itself, so I can omit the long-winded post describing it(not that I ever have that sort of problem or anything. Lol).

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Too funny. Like the one where Noah, instructed to build an ark, has to navigate the local building codes, EPA, OSHA, PETA, etc. etc. etc. :)
 
ModerationNow! said:
This very well produced & acted skit speaks for itself, so I can omit the long-winded post describing it(not that I ever have that sort of problem or anything. Lol).
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Really stupid actually. Imagine the actual MLK speech back in 1908, he would have been killed on site or not even allowed to speak. Taking a speech 55+ years out of time is idiotic at best. Way to diminish his speech by posting such idiotic crap.
 
Praxas said:
Really stupid actually. Imagine the actual MLK speech back in 1908, he would have been killed on site or not even allowed to speak. Taking a speech 55+ years out of time is idiotic at best. Way to diminish his speech by posting such idiotic crap.
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No sense of humor....
 
Fledermaus said:
No sense of humor....
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In some things you are correct. Considering I had racist family members in the past who were moved by MLK speech and changed their ways, I don't take things like this good. Just like some victims of bill Cosby didn't take to kindly to his jokes about date rape drugs. To each their own.
 
Dr. King is dead, so any attempts to pretend how he would have lived in 2019 is just speculation.
 
Funny but only because I know progressives who are that militant. I think you could do a similar video with Ronald Reagan and the average Trump supporters that would be just as funny.

Reagan: "Tear down that wall Mr. Gorbachev..."

Trump Supporter, "No...you build a wall to keep out all the rapists and lock the brown kids in cages without soap!"

Reagan "Uh...what?"
 
Kinda reminds me of a Jordan Peterson speech.
 
Fledermaus said:
No sense of humor....
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It wasn't funny to those of us who heard MLK give his original speech; I was very young, but it changed my heart, because I had never actually understood what segregation was all about at the time. Seeing that speech mocked and ridiculed for purely partisan purposes is annoying, to say the least.
 
Praxas said:
Really stupid actually. Imagine the actual MLK speech back in 1908, he would have been killed on site or not even allowed to speak. Taking a speech 55+ years out of time is idiotic at best. Way to diminish his speech by posting such idiotic crap.
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You realize that your post actually illustrates the very point they are making here! It's the ridiculous, oversensitive feigned outrage over silly, exaggerated or fabricated reasons that they are pointing out. Some comedians won't even do colleges anymore, because so many students have been "conditioned" to be offended by everything. There is REAL suffering and oppression going on in the world, but in the mean time we have spoiled, privileged Americans who are conditioned to expect to be fawned over and treated as victims, because of something stupid, like they took something the wrong way, or couldn't handle a harmless joke! To people like that, I'd say to remember that it's NOT all about YOU. Think about what it's like for people who are starving or dying of a tropical disease somewhere else. You have it much better than they do! Quit with the personal pity parties...


Nobody is "diminishing" anything. They are making the point that MLK was trying to solve legitimate oppression, while most modern SJW's are usually just screwing things up, being selfish, or trying to push a separate political agenda that isn't even really related to their SJW agenda.
 
DiAnna said:
It wasn't funny to those of us who heard MLK give his original speech; I was very young, but it changed my heart, because I had never actually understood what segregation was all about at the time. Seeing that speech mocked and ridiculed for purely partisan purposes is annoying, to say the least.
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How do you guys get this SO wrong?? MLK isn't the one being mocked here!! They are using humor and sarcasm to point out how a reasonable, credible, legit civil rights leader like MLK, has in modern times, been replaced by a lot of counterproductive, or selfish, or corrupt, or hypersensitive snowflake SJW's who are mostly making a mockery of the GOOD leaders of the past.

WE aren't mocking MLK, the hateful charlatans of today's politically motivated, hyper-partisan SJW's are the ones who are making a mockery of MLK! He wanted true equality. They want to turn the tables and aim the hatred and oppression in reverse. He's rolling over in his grave..
 
ModerationNow! said:
How do you guys get this SO wrong?? MLK isn't the one being mocked here!! They are using humor and sarcasm to point out how a reasonable, credible, legit civil rights leader like MLK, has in modern times, been replaced by a lot of counterproductive, or selfish, or corrupt, or hypersensitive snowflake SJW's who are mostly making a mockery of the GOOD leaders of the past.

WE aren't mocking MLK, the hateful charlatans of today's politically motivated, hyper-partisan SJW's are the ones who are making a mockery of MLK! He wanted true equality. They want to turn the tables and aim the hatred and oppression in reverse. He's rolling over in his grave..
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Perhaps you are correct; I was frankly so completely annoyed by the first 60 seconds I turned it off in disgust. To me, it made a mockery of MLK by using him as a present-day vehicle to push a purely partisan agenda... which it absolutely did. Sorry it didn't give me the giggles. :shrug:
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Kinda reminds me of a Jordan Peterson speech.
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It reminds me of a Jordan Peterson speech from the perspective of a typically calm, generally nonpartisan scientist, who is some times confronted by angry, spiteful people who literally know nothing about him, except for the negative, disingenuous propaganda they've heard from some Marxist source that seeks to defame, not to be reasonable.
 
DiAnna said:
Perhaps you are correct; I was frankly so completely annoyed by the first 60 seconds I turned it off in disgust. To me, it made a mockery of MLK by using him as a present-day vehicle to push a purely partisan agenda... which it absolutely did. Sorry it didn't give me the giggles. :shrug:
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I thought it was hilarious. I'm telling you, if MLK had not died, but(as in an episode of Boondocks) had awoken from a coma he'd been in for the past 50+ years, he would be happy to see that so much progress has happened in race relations, compared with his time. But he would be baffled by the seemingly neverending new sources of outrage and offense in our society! He's been to 3rd world countries, so for him to see upper middle class white college kids being so triggered over nonsense, and literally demonizing the notion of free speech, would probably make him wish he could go under sedation for another 20 years, in hopes that people came to their senses by then!
 
DiAnna said:
It wasn't funny to those of us who heard MLK give his original speech; I was very young, but it changed my heart, because I had never actually understood what segregation was all about at the time. Seeing that speech mocked and ridiculed for purely partisan purposes is annoying, to say the least.
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In the last six decades I have had my (previous) religion mocked and laughed at, My politics, my military career and so much more. I laughed at a lot, cringed at some, and said DAMN to others....

All the time I could see dispassionately the what made the jokes humorous to some.

MLKs speech will stand on its own merit for eternity. It is powerful. It touches people at many level. It is a call for unity. It is a challenge to do the right thing.

That does not make it a sacred cow that cannot be chuckled at.
 
ModerationNow! said:
You realize that your post actually illustrates the very point they are making here! It's the ridiculous, oversensitive feigned outrage over silly, exaggerated or fabricated reasons that they are pointing out. Some comedians won't even do colleges anymore, because so many students have been "conditioned" to be offended by everything. There is REAL suffering and oppression going on in the world, but in the mean time we have spoiled, privileged Americans who are conditioned to expect to be fawned over and treated as victims, because of something stupid, like they took something the wrong way, or couldn't handle a harmless joke! To people like that, I'd say to remember that it's NOT all about YOU. Think about what it's like for people who are starving or dying of a tropical disease somewhere else. You have it much better than they do! Quit with the personal pity parties...


Nobody is "diminishing" anything. They are making the point that MLK was trying to solve legitimate oppression, while most modern SJW's are usually just screwing things up, being selfish, or trying to push a separate political agenda that isn't even really related to their SJW agenda.
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Actually I think the only point you’re making is how over the top you are. I have an opinion and nothing more. I didn’t call for a boycott, I didn’t say it should be banned and I didn’t call for some comedian Jihadi over it. The only thing I did was give my comment over it. Stop looking more into it than I gave. Damn man stop looking to be a martyr for every comment you make.

I didn’t find the skit funny and thought it was stupid and gave the reasons for it, nothing more.
 
Fledermaus said:
In the last six decades I have had my (previous) religion mocked and laughed at, My politics, my military career and so much more. I laughed at a lot, cringed at some, and said DAMN to others....

All the time I could see dispassionately the what made the jokes humorous to some.

MLKs speech will stand on its own merit for eternity. It is powerful. It touches people at many level. It is a call for unity. It is a challenge to do the right thing.

That does not make it a sacred cow that cannot be chuckled at.
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It does for me. YMMV.
 
ModerationNow! said:
It's the ridiculous, oversensitive feigned outrage over silly, exaggerated or fabricated reasons that they are pointing out. Some comedians won't even do colleges anymore, because so many students have been "conditioned" to be offended by everything. There is REAL suffering and oppression going on in the world, but in the mean time we have spoiled, privileged Americans who are conditioned to expect to be fawned over and treated as victims, because of something stupid, like they took something the wrong way, or couldn't handle a harmless joke!
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So it is, so it is!
 
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