I know Al Capp had the perception hippie activists were humourlessly self-righteous, and this served as the wellspring for his Hardhat’s Bedtime Story Book, but outside of that particular stereotype, I wasn’t aware liberals were ever considered particularly uptight.
I for one will be a little disappointed if Colbert doesn’t “apologize”, in an extremely sarcastic and comedic way.
This looks much more like desperate self-promotion than activism.
I don’t think liberals are known, in particular, for that, but largely liberal groups certainly have. Cf. “humorless feminist”.
Also a stereotype of largely liberal Tumblr activists “Before you learn to love Tumblr, you have to learn to hate!”
I thought Tumblr’s only purpose was so that school kids could view p0rn while on the computers at school.
Hmm…you learn something new each day…
Pretty much, yes. So it’s either sincere and stupid ; or insincere and lame. Well, points for the originality of a lose-lose strategy, at least.
Bonus points : going after a) a comedian b) who mocks people for a living and c) isn’t the least bit afraid to gleefully eviscerate the President of the United States to his goddamn face. That is not a gameplan that can end well for anyone in any space-time continuum.
Yeah, it’s a sad world when the “hardest-hitting” interview a U.S. President can face comes from the likes of Colbert and Stewart.
Well, sad in a funny way.
If your goal is attention for its own sake, sincerity is irrelevant. I suppose that’s always been true, but in the social media age this kind of garbage is all over the place.
The whole #CancelColbert “movement” is a backlash/revenge by right-wingers in response to the #StopRush meme, which has actually cost Limbaugh and his radio masters serious bucks. He’s had to move to lower-rated radio stations due to steadily declining ad revenue.
Otherwise, nobody would be calling for Colbert’s “retirement.”
People tell him he’s white and he believes it because he says things like “I don’t see race.”
People tell him he’s white and he believes them because the police call him “sir”.
I thought he believed them because he could always get a taxi.
I refuse to see any movie with Ralph Fiennes in it, after he said all those terrible things about the Jews in Schindler’s List.
Colbert’s “Chinaman Rickshaw” skit is one of the best _____ pieces of comedy (I never laughed so hard!) and truly brilliant but it’s also clear that Colbert is mocking the ‘Chinaman’ while pretending to be satirizing stereotypes of Chinese people. This is the Colbert method, it’s how he gets away with it.
For me it’s Shelley Duvall. She messed up Jack Nicholson something fierce in The Shining. Plus she’s weird.
ETA: Olive Oil.
Suey Park talks a bit about #CancelColbert: in this interview.
I got bored and so didn’t watch quite the whole thing, but I was pretty impressed with the interviewer. I wasn’t very impressed with Park. Groupthink jargon turns me off.
They both were kind of gross, IMO. The snide self-pitying “OH, I’m a white guy, so I don’t have an opinion” business is really pretty pathetic, whereas her unwillingness from the very beginning of a goddamned interview to explain her perspective to the interview’s audience shows a pretty shallow and non-realistic attitude toward media activism.
She told him that his opinion is worthless. How is he supposed to respond?
Geez that guy should not have simply called her opinion “stupid” at the end. 
I think she’s wrong on the #cancelcolbert issue, but he managed to confirm every valid point she does have to make about race relations in one brief interview.
She asks a fair question: When we (and by “we” I guess I have to mean white people) make jokes satirizing racism, are we helping people of other races or not?
There’s a separate question as to whether we’re obligated to help with our every action.
Another related question is: are we actually harming that cause?
And finally: Do we (white people) use our reactions to jokes like this as an indicator that we, ourselves, aren’t racist and so don’t need to work too hard on that issue?
These and other questions will be addressed in detail in our upcoming 12-part PBS series, You Can’t Laugh If I Don’t: Ridding the World of Humor Once and For All.