Stand-up Comedy Routine Sparks Racial Bias Investigation at Bryant University
“There’s no place at Bryant for that stuff and nobody feels like that. There’s just one bad egg that makes us look bad.”
The basis for all of this is a really dumb joke. It could be considered racist but it’s really just a stupid joke.
WPRI News reports:
Bryant University investigating racial bias incident at school event
Bryant University is investigating after a student’s attempt at a stand-up comedy routine sparked allegations of racism.
The incident, which was recorded on cell phone video and widely shared on social media, happened during an open mic event put on by Bryant’s campus radio station on Thursday.
In the video, the unidentified male student can be heard saying, “White people, we can’t really tell black people what to do any more. We used to be able to do that. But we can’t anymore. I’m just jealous about the fact that black people are allowed to physically assault their children and I’m not.”
The video shows only part of the routine, which is eventually interrupted when three students walk onto the stage and take the microphone away.
The university’s Bias Incident Committee says it determined a bias incident did occur, but is still collecting information beyond the video clip in its review of the matter.
“I thought it was disgusting,” Bryant University junior John Martin, told Eyewitness News. “There’s no place at Bryant for that stuff and nobody feels like that. There’s just one bad egg that makes us look bad.”
On Friday, Bryant’s president, Ronald Machtley alerted students and faculty to the incident, saying “the committee will continue to hear witness testimony on Monday to understand the total context of the performance, in order to determine the full magnitude of the bias incident.”
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I wonder whether him saying “certain cultures, because of their protected status, are allowed to hit their children, whereas I, as a white male, am not” would be OK. This then either allows the recipient to get insulted because they know it is true, or for snowflakes to get angry because they understand it, which means that they are racist, but aren’t willing to admit it.
Bill Burr did a great routine which dissected it all down to word order, wherein M’er F’ing Asians is bad, but Asian M’er F’er is OK.
Bill Burr is way ahead of the curve in pissing off the perpetually offended.
Honestly, there’s no way a fellow college student does that for any reason except to piss some people off.
I’m not even a student and I could have 100% predicted how that would go off.