Yesterday, the Comedy Central Twitter account for The Colbert Report
posted a very dumb tweet from a very smart satire.

On Wednesday’s Report, Stephen Colbert’s idiot-pundit character gave a

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So once again we went from zero to I Demand Someone’s Head in no time
flat. In short order, the hashtag #CancelColbert was trending on
Twitter. That’s right. Nine years of brilliant satire demolishing
hypocrisy and injustice? Eh, fine. Five seconds of reading a tweet?
CANCEL!

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Maybe there are people out there who would argue that the full skit
itself was racist–that, in fact, one can never create satirical racism
to lampoon actual racism, because the wrong people might take the wrong
pleasure from it for the wrong reasons. I would probably disagree with
you, but I’d gladly read the argument–it’s a version of the arguments
that people have made against Archie Bunker and George Jefferson and
Eric Cartman and Borat. Satire is not its own defense; it can be badly
executed, or it can be an excuse for actual hate. And if you want to
make that argument about Colbert, go ahead, though I’d say you’ve got

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That’s just the media world we live in. Maybe someone like Stephen
Colbert could do a late-night satire on it. And if he does, let me be
the first to demand, in advance, that he be #Fired.
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