re: #40 Charles Johnson

You probably shouldn’t read this, then: We Want to #CancelColbert | TIME.com.

Yes, TIME magazine is promoting this whargarbl.

What’s amazing is the sheer intractability of their position. I can excuse the humorlessness, the initial taking of offense and never finding what Colbert did funny. That’s all normal and perfectly valid subjective experience. However context matters, because it just has to. This is the same guy who runs the 1-888-OOPS-JEW phone hotline just so Jews can call and apologize to him for Yom Kippur. That level of arrogant cluelessness is an established part of the joke, built into the persona. So when @suey_park tweets shit like this:

I’m not ignoring arguments because I’m incapable of proving points—it’s because I have yet to meet an intelligent argument worth engaging.

— Suey Park (@suey_park) March 29, 2014

I have to wonder what her excuse is, or whether she’s just another kind of professional troll playacting the patronizing, arrogant buffoon. Same with her claim in the article that the only people who got the joke were racists. That’s not just lazy, insulting and ridiculously dismissive, it’s the very kind of thoughtless, categorical dehumanization she’s accusing Colbert of perpetrating.