Damn..hasn't even been a year, and someone brings this back up again. A conservative must have just lost their job lol..
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Flashback! Jimmy Kimmel in Blackface mocking Karl Malone
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The OP isn't comparing it to Roseanne. I just found the clip because someone decided to tweet it after his incredibly idiotic comment and wondered what people took of it.
He sounds like Carl Malone. Go listen to clips of him talking.
You have to ask yourself if pulling the same move as Hannity is really the thing you want to be doing.
We'll forget and probably forgive in a week though.
We'll forget and probably forgive in a week though.
I am convinced that the people who always bring up Tropic Thunder in blackface discussions have never actually watched the fucking movie because they're always so wrong about it.
Sleeping pills make you say racist shit.
Racism is mental health issue.
Anything but just being a racist apparently.
Kimmel can get in the bin with the rest of them. sanctimonious twat.
Racism is mental health issue.
Anything but just being a racist apparently.
Kimmel can get in the bin with the rest of them. sanctimonious twat.
That dude doesn't seem to give a shit based on his shitty posts hyping it up.
It was just last month when Hannity pulled this up again.
She's literally posting like any other republican or trump supporter on the internet, what the fuck are you talking about?
It's no different from any rightwing asshole anywhere on the internet, honestly. She's just a bad person
To be far, Karl Malone was pretty much like that. I forget why he became a running gag for them, but they went at him from back in their KROQ days.
Agreed, I even said that in my post, lol.
I remember him doing it on the radio a bit back when Malone played for the Lakers. Kimmel and Malone were good friends and I think he used to enjoy the radio skits.
Doing it in full blackface on a TV show though... oof.
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I dont give a fuck if she's old. Every old person isn't a racist. What the fuck kind of excuse is that.
Ugh. Yeah. I saw that tweet and was like "Really." Jimmy is a dumbass. Fucking shame on him for defending a racist.
Op I wanted to let you know that Hannity already tried this tactic and it blew up in his face. In fact he hyped up the reveal of a damning video of Kimmel (the same one) and it didn't go anywhere because you know context. There was even a thread about it already here lots of faux outrage from the usual crowd.
I don't know man. I think for some things, people are just going to have to accept that some people did questionable shit back in the day and answer a few questions:
1. Was it a product of the times?
2. Is this person still doing it now?
3. Are they doing good things now, enough that maybe we can move past it?
If I were to answer:
1. I think since social media has advanced, so has the definition of blackface. Heck, in this video he's black-body, and is not black-face in the old-timey 1920's sense. Is it okay to do it now? No. I don't remember any outcry about it at the time, though.
2. I don't think Jimmy is even remotely the same person
3. This guy (despite his Roseanne tweet), has been a pretty important mouthpiece for a common sense agenda regarding race and social issues, health care, gun control, and other things. I think he's producing enough good now that we can maybe let this thing go.
Knew before coming in here it would be a Man Show bit.
Yeah... Kimmel was pretty racist/sexist back then.
Yeah... Kimmel was pretty racist/sexist back then.
it's actually kind of funny to think how much Kimmel changed from his Kevin and Bean/Man Show/Crank Yankers days, and how much Adam Carolla is the same as he ever was. No wonder one is more successful than the other.
I think the only time I've ever thought that it was a legitimate excuse was that lady who got tackled and kicked out of Target. Other than that...
Karl Malone is an unbelievably trash person. Kimmel using Malone's cosign for blackface could be it's own comedy skit or entire episode in a "Get Out" inspired anthology series
Fuck Karl Malone on every level except classic teams on NBA 2K
I mean there are plenty of conspiracy-theory-peddling freaks in the world and especially this country. They're not crazy - just incredibly ignorant, paranoid and downright stupid. When you're that misinformed, you're fearful of various claims that are obviously untrue but too fucking ignorant to do some research, so you believe them and you share them and it makes you look insane.
The Man Show was such a garbage show and I have never really been able to forget that Kimmel was a part of it. I don't pay much attention to him, and when one of his clips starts making the rounds I am reminded of it, even if I enjoy it or agree with him. I respect that he's changed, but there will always be a lingering odor.
He's so far off base on Roseanne that I groaned. Wow.
He's so far off base on Roseanne that I groaned. Wow.
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We literally went through this exact same thing last month.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sean-hannity-and-jimmy-kimmel-feuding-on-twitter.34530/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sean-hannity-and-jimmy-kimmel-feuding-on-twitter.34530/
That's one of the challenges we are going to face. Digital decay isn't what it was a decade ago, hell, even 5 years ago. Everything is archived now, and available to dredge up as new every time some issue pops up.
I love when people say they 'dug' this up, like it wasn't on a majorly popular show broadcast and viewed by millions of people. When Jimmy started doing his new show I definitely thought it was strange considering the stuff he did back in the day.
If we're going to demonize anyone that has ever done something questionable in their past, there isn't going to be anyone left in the world. What do we benefit by treating shit done over a decade ago like it was done today? Look at what the person says and does now.
If we're going to demonize anyone that has ever done something questionable in their past, there isn't going to be anyone left in the world. What do we benefit by treating shit done over a decade ago like it was done today? Look at what the person says and does now.
...ok? Sure.
Today, Jimmy Kimmel went on twitter to defend Roseanne who called a black woman an ape.
Kimmel is excusing Rosanne's racism and using mental health issues as a shield, that's what he's saying and doing now
as someone who has been targeted by Rosanne's brand of racist "humor" and has dealt with mental health issues, fuck these people
Yeah, I don't think Kimmel was making fun of blackface as an incredibly offensive thing to do, though.
Like, he just actually did blackface.
Which is specifically what I said. Why anyone is trying to breakdown a skit from a 15 year old show instead of talking about the thing he literally just did is baffling to me.
Drives me fucking nuts, just throwing out mental illness as some sort of vague cover for reprehensible racist behaviour.
Blackface has a very specific goal and I dont agree with the wide net some like to throw around.
This isnt blackface
That Netherlands shit or the Jackson Jive performance is
This isnt blackface
That Netherlands shit or the Jackson Jive performance is
