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Some quotes from interviews shown in the Last Week Tonight homelessness episode (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Every time I have to pick up human shit, my liberalness just got lowered one more notch."

"Is there low income— Are [the homeless] going to be spending money at the sushi place, or, you know, or not?"

"And it's not, I feel so bad saying that, but it's not, it's just not people who are, I guess of the same class as us, which sounds bad, but I don't mean that in a bad way."

"I'm definitely not a racist and I'm not a bigot, but um, I think I hold a little bit of a stigma against people who are different." LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF BEING A BIGOT

:amerikkka: Americans are beyond fucking parody, Jesus Christ.

Also I guess here's a link to the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

They were being dunked on, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Fortunately yes. But of course, this is John Oliver, so you're not going to get any actual systemic critique or delving into the role of capitalism in this, the problem's apparently NIMBYs not wanting affordable housing in their neighbourhoods. That's where the sushi bit came from.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

it looks like he had the best take possible for a liberal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Still not redeemed for the awful Venezuela and Taiwan episodes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

libs are gonna lib, he also had the customary bad take on Tibet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The whole premise of the show is "We all agree that [bad thing in America] is bad right? Ipso facto, we can all agree that [thing in Venezuela/Tibet/Xinjiang/Belarus/Ukraine/Russia] is bad." Get the audience clapping like seals for domestic subjects they're familiar with, then carry that energy into foreign subjects they don't know shit about. Funny how the domestic segments never lead to calling for the regime to be overthrown though.

A Citations Needed episode is overdue.