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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
And how do you know he wasn't doing a satirical piece? How do you know that Chris Rock really doesn't hate white people and means what he says when he is doing his comedy act that you consider satire?
My point is that your perception of their intentions is entirely colored by your own personal bias. You have no earthly way of knowing what Richards' intentions were in that moment. Perhaps he was trying to be a racist ass, perhaps he was just being satirical.
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Good point. It would be intersting to see the 2-3 minutes leading up to that clip. For all we know he could've been doing a peice about dumb hick racists, and morphed it into his rebuttal of the heckler. There may be context that was left out.
It'd be pretty easy to pull a 3 minute clip from a lot of standup acts and call them offensive and degrading.
Not that I'm jumping to his defense; he's deemed it appropriate to apologize for his "rage". I just wouldn't want to paint him as a racist over a 3 minute clip from a stand up act.