Anil Dash on Nostr: People really forget that Seinfeld started his “you can’t make jokes!” shit in ...
People really forget that Seinfeld started his “you can’t make jokes!” shit in response to one of his longest-running collaborators going on a racist tear, hurling hateful slurs at an audience member from onstage. The thing Seinfeld wants people to be able to say without accountability is the n-word. The same as people complaining about “woke” culture. Never more complicated than that.
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