I personally feel like this is the same kind of subtle... or at least trying to be... racist BS... that they are trying SO hard to interject into this campaign...

I really dislike Limbaugh, and find this to be pretty much par for the course... It's a 'joke' a 'parody'... and it's not really 'ME' saying it, i'll just broadcast it... Because after all... Rush himself isn't a bigot...

Yeah... right

I don't even know what to say to this.
* wtf

Maybe Rush didn't know it was racist because he couldn't hear it. The man loves his Oxycontin.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
- Rush Limbaugh, Oct. 5, 1995

You know who I blame for this? Dave Chappelle. Dave never understood how dumb/mentally-lazy so many Americans are, and just figured if he thought his confrontational and race-conscious, cultural-criticism comedy was funny that it was worth the odd inappropriate laugh. Well the genie is out of the god-damn bottle.

"Ooh, this racism is killing me inside!"

>> ^bamdrew:
You know who I blame for this? Dave Chappelle. Dave never understood how dumb/mentally-lazy so many Americans are, and just figured if he thought his confrontational and race-conscious, cultural-criticism comedy was funny that it was worth the odd inappropriate laugh. Well the genie is out of the god-damn bottle.
"Ooh, this racism is killing me inside!"


I disagree. That's like blaming racism on the reporters who report on a story that demonstrates racism exists in a campaign.

Just because a comedian jokes on a social construct in society, it doesn't mean he's responsible for it or even perpetuating it. Granted, there's a fine line between racism and comedic license, but making jokes on stereotypes and generalizations can be done with tact (e.g. Dave Chapelle) and without tact (e.g. Carlos Mencia). It's ultimately the listener's duty to take away from it what it is, comedy about a social construct, and not that it's encouraging that construct.

Even if you disagree with this argument, you couldn't blame this on Dave Chappelle, but would have to go back to comedians before him such as Richard Pryor or Andrew Dice Clay who also did comedy on perceptions about race.