Had you watched Chapelles special you'd know he does the same. He makes fun of himself and everyone else. How can a POC punch down to anyone? That defies the logic of critical race theory.
I reject the weird hierarchy both the left “SJWs” and the alt right “SJWs” use, for the record.
Each situation has an up and down stance, well maybe not literally every scenario in existence. But you know, for the sake of brevity, most situations that can assessed has a case where you can punch up, punch down or just go hit the nuke button. South Park hits the nuke button because while they make fun of everyone, each episode is only ever talking about one subject. In a comedy set, obviously this isn’t the case. So you can mock yourself onstage all you want, you could be a flying pink unicorn, you can still punch down. Because in a stand up all the jokes are taken on a scenario by scenario basis.
Some questioned his jokes at the expense at the victims of the MJ child abuse scandal without mocking MJ himself. Now, if that is the case, (and I’m not saying it is) then sure one could say he punched down. If he mocked both, then the reaction is obviously one sided and unfair.
I’m not really against offensive comedy. I think comedy should absolutely cause trouble,
And outrage culture exists on both sides of the political spectrum. Everyone seemingly wants to be offended at something these days.
But life is rarely that black and white. I think both sides are shouting past each other. Each spurned on by the troublemaking pot stirrers.
I think we should employ far more nuance into the discussion.
Not all comedians can truly pull off the kind of “edgy” humour that made them famous back in the day. Because they simply fail to evolve. But some can.
