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Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Promise I'm not trying to be one of those "but there are alternative opinions" trolls here. Speech isn't free there, but they can freely talk about things they can no longer talk about in America without being abducted under cover of night and sent to a concentration camp and then randomly dumped in an arbitrary African nation without any paper trail, was the point. Probably a small bit of, "work and money are increasingly hard to find for many, why judge," was also a factor.
In the grand universe of rage, it seems a waste of time to direct it at easily-ignorable comedians when there's active Nazi evil to hate and pursue. If anything, ignoring the comedians would literally be their end instead of giving them any attention or clicks.
I suppose people wouldn't know to do that without the aforementioned rage-attention though, and best to hate-silence all the evil we can everywhere.
Thanks for humoring me, I think the thought experiment was a dumb one, overall, and there's enough rage to go around for all the Evil things.
Yeah, the Saudi Arabian government don't really care if you talk shit about Americans. It's when you talk shit about them that the saws come out.
Which just goes to show what these "free speech champions" and "brave truth tellers" are really about. They don't actually care about speaking truth to power, just airing their own grievances.
For whatever it is worth, I never saw Saudi Arabia or most middle east nations as bastions of freedom. Selective oppression might be a better term (for the entire damn world anymore.)