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staffers wrote a response praising the “meritocracy” they worked for—but looking at the cast and crew list,men, and white ones at thatJon Stewart addressed the article, and the show’s general lack of diversity, in an interview on political accountability and systemic racism with thewith “tremendous privilege and power”—like Stewart—to admit to the existence of systemic racism.
hat you get defensive. Nobody likes to get called on their shit,” he said. “Especially when they feel like it’s not really their shit.” Then he got into, pretty much an all-white staff, all white correspondents, mostly male. And people would call me out on various shit about it. And I would get defensive until I had to stop and think about it.
exist? I was raised by a single mother, my mother wore a t-shirt that said “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I’m a man, I grew up in a house where I knew I wasn’t needed. And I remember going back into the writer’s room and being like, “Do you believe this shit? Kevin? Steve? Mike? Bob? Donald? Oh...Uh oh. Uh oh.”hiring policy, which at the time producers thought meant no one could accuse them of being racist or sexist.
unny. It just happened. But they’d been funny all along. We just hadn’t actively done enough to mine that.”
cthagod call JoeBiden out on the legacy of slave ownership in his family tree
What was the name of the stereotyped Hindi reporter Jon would bring in. After Colbert spinned off?
cthagod I would prefer Jon Stewart to go back and host The Daily Show. Trevor Noah sucks.