He may not have been fully aware of what he was being filmed for. This wouldn’t be the first time a famous actor had been tricked into being part of an anti-science video:
So this summary I’m going to give really does not do justice to the whole situation, but I’m going to try to be brief-yet-informative:
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black teenager, Dick Rowland, was arrested for ‘assaulting’ a white woman (most reports say he likely just tripped and accidentally touched her as he fell; she declined to give a statement). At the time, the black community in Tulsa was one of the most financially successful in the country, colloquially called “Black Wall Street.” Meanwhile, the KKK and racism in general were at a historic high across the entire country, not just the South. As news spread over the arrest, a large group of white people (some of whom had been deputized earlier that day for this exact purpose) arrived at the jail to lynch Rowland as well as a smaller group of black people who arrived to defend him from what was certainly going to be his death. Some sources disagree on how EXACTLY the violence started but the general consensus is that the police convinced the black group to go home but someone in the white mob tried to disarm them before they left, possibly even trying to wrestle away someone’s gun. A shot was fired, and then many, many shots. Over the next 16(ish) hours, white mob violence burned down 35 square blocks of Black Wall Street (at least 1250 homes), somewhere between 50-300 people died, many hundreds more were injured, and not a single criminal charge was brought to anyone. Also insurance companies refused to compensate the black families because obviously
Fast forward to 1996, and the city of Tulsa formed a committee to investigate the Massacre (only 75 years late). The committee found that the city was at least partially responsible and should (among other things) pay reparations to the few remaining geriatric survivors who would have been mere children at the time. The city refused to do follow their advice (even though they were the ones who MADE the committee in the first place) so a lawsuit was attempted. It was thrown out because the statute of limitations (which was only 2 years for a civil rights claim) had long since passed. Although the city DID give out some medals to the survivors as if they were fucking Olympic athletes or something and not the victims of a state-supported hate crime/murder spree
It’s another example in a very, VERY long list of American hypocrisy, broken promises, and racism that we refuse to even acknowledge on an official level. It’s kinda similar to modern-day Japan denying that they committed any war crimes during World War 2 despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary
And yet, they still refuse to even consider taking any kind of responsibility
Goddammit you got me
That was a great explanation, thank you
Did you bring the buttfor?
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You got me. I could’ve sworn that was a still image until I got jump scared by Sisko
Honestly, I’m pretty sure I was just drunk wrong when I said Nintendo. I know they started with playing cards and I think I just assumed they dabbled with other stuff but no, I was wrong. I’ll edit my comment
Wait until OP learns about the chaebol system or Nintendo
Edit: I was drunk confusing Nintendo with something it isn’t, I was wrong
Zionism does not equal Judaism; it’s a political stance, not a cultural identity
I mean… I guess someone had to make those scientific contributions
How does an adult look at “Master of Divinity” on a college application and not immediately conclude that it is a scam?
One was used to incite violence, the other was ABused to justify violence, they’re basically the same thing (/s)
So…he’s satirically conservative? You do know Colbert has never ACTUALLY been a conservative right? You know that was the whole joke, right??? Either you have the media literacy of a toddler or I fell for the troll bait
1-Like another comment said, if you’ve read any of his books you should know he’s quite liberal. Could this pic be just a photo op for online clout? Sure, maybe, but he definitely does NOT endorse Trump.
2-He’s 76 years old, I imagine most things he does nowadays are fairly lackluster
Pretty sure it’s an endorsement
I mean, I never said I did. I’m just throwing out another possibility (that has happened before) so that people don’t just walk away taking the meme at face value without engaging with it