The line I love most is "Just because it's true doesn't mean that it's right." It seems superficial but taken out of context can be really deep (heck, taken in context it can be true). I like how Trevor Noah describes privilege, and I think it makes it easier to understand. It's not like here have all this, it's like a golf handicap. You still have to play and you might suck but you still have a better start point. (Go look up his video on it, im not doing it justice)

I have probably watched most of your reactions and i absolutely love them dude…

@@palpablenotion Bud every race, creed, sex, and religion has privilege so claiming white people have more of it is absurd.

@@natetbag "Bud", location location location. In the United States, cis white heterosexual men hold the most power. This is imperically proven from a number of studies in a number of ways going back decades. Privelege is based on community but macro communities matter, not just neighborhoods. In Saudi Arabia, is there white privilege? Idk, but I do know the Saudi are at the top of the privilege pyramid there. In Iraq, Muslims hold the power and Christian communities are persecuted. Here, secular presenting (but if asked, Christian) hold privilege while Muslims are one of the most persecuted religious groups in America (as are Jewish people and Sikh, often because they are mistaken for Muslims because apparently turbans are a staple of Islam? Um no). Privilege is a mercurial thing that presents more in the lack of than in the having. A woman walking down a street might worry about safety if a man is behind her, or if she's waiting alone at a bus stop. Do men worry so often of attack/assault? Most reply no. If a hijabi is waiting alone at that bus stop, she has a whole other set of fears on top of the ones women usually have. Hijabis have been targets of attack for 20 years (probably longer, but from my personal knowledge of attacks and rises in violence, I know mainly about post 9/11). You can argue further, but unless it's in good faith, I won't respond. Please keep safe in these times and find peace.

@@palpablenotion I already proved that white heterosexual men hold the most power. If they did, we’d make the most money and have the best jobs, when we don’t. Your studies almost definitely don’t compare to actual governmental data that I use almost exclusively when arguing. Women shouldn’t fear walking alone at night because they are much less likely to be attacked by men. Despite the lies that say “one in every five women are raped”, the women’s health organization says otherwise. They claim that there are 5.5 million violent crimes committed against women including sexual assault and rape yearly on report, do the actual and find that that means as a woman born in America you have a 3% chance of getting assaulted or harmed via violent crime in your entire life and that is ROUNDED UP. Need I say more. Also I am constantly hearing gay people come out about how they get more hostility froM LGBT than anyone else. I don’t want to here it.

Its not cause he doesnt mean it..

@@11oktoh no shit? You figured out satire!

Yeah, people don't get it, but sad is sad, it isn't because someone has been a victim of racism that your problems suddenly stops mattering

@@shiro6646 "my father and mother are dead and I was starving on the streets for 6 years" "Haha ok but you're white so that doesn't matter."

@@user-kx8pu6ys5i did you listen to an entirely different song, or is understanding the core concepts of satire just extremely challenging for you?

genuinely. The fact it goes in order is great, plus for those that saw em, you know what to be hyped for

Me too! Fantastic

Couldn’t agree more! Definitely enjoying this format and can’t wait for the rest of the special. I like the in between parts being included and that’s the only thing I’d have added to the Inside experience. Love the reactions and analyses.

Yessss

It is like the difference between listening to a few songs, as opposed to listening to an entire album. There is so much additional context that gets missed.

That's a trope? I've heard of the "angry black woman" one, but that one's new to me.

Like calling someone "a Jew' instead of saying that they are Jewish. In both cases, the word isn't a slur, but its use has become derogatory.

@@AllTheArtsy yea, and also usually a personal relationship kind of thing. Example: I have two Jewish friends that use and don't mind the use of "Jew" and others that do, so I respect the preference of the person to which I am speaking and er on the side of caution if unknown. (Same with the word crazy ect being used around or towards me, it's my word to claim or ban for myself) I do not think that "the blacks" ever falls into this category however. I know there's some wobbling on "black folk" because to some it's a racial slight and to others it's just regular vocab. (I was raised in an area that uses folk for black and white people, which is the only reason it came to mind, however I know some regions where "white folk" isn't used yet the congruent term is) I guess basically I'm saying respect peoples' verbal boundaries? And remember to code switch if you have a friend that uses terms that are dicey with strangers. Between my queer peers, my church community, my family, and my friends, im code switching all the time.

How the fuck would you know?

@@natetbag because that's what the black community, not as a monolith, but has repeatedly through varying communities, voiced. Individual people might feel different but I defer to the plurality and not singularity. That's what tends to be appropriate in society. Privately, say what you want, you know how you mean it. But understand why it's taken differently in public sometimes/often.

@@palpablenotion I’ve never heard a African American person enjoy the term person of color. Should we stop calling them that? I think they’d prefer to just be called people.

Same lol. I braced for disappointment when he started with that

Well, they are certainly exaggerated issues from the perspective portrayed here. So in that sense, not really sensible or aligning with facts, but more so with hyperbolic anecdotes that align more with feelings about the issues rather than what’s actually happened. It’s saying that one race seems to have it much harder, that being black people, yet almost all the evidence points the other way. More white people on welfare, more white people homeless, more white people shot by police, rates of single motherhood are going up faster in whites family homes, more white people on drugs. Yet nobody shouts that this is because the US is systemically racist against white people.

@@WafleEnterprises white people account for around 70% of the U.S. Adjusting the statistics for population, literally everything you said is wrong

@@TJ-lh7xg Actually no, even adjusting for population the stats line up, police are more likely to be aggressive and/or shoot white people. A higher percentage of black peoples per their population are on welfare, but almost all of them are in big Democrat ran blue cities where that’s the status quo, whereas most white welfare recipients are in Red rural areas, like Oklahoma or Arkansas or Alabama. Cost of living is dirt cheap in these areas so the only real explanation for this phenomenon is poor life choices. But if I were left leaning, I might start shouting that the system is rigged against white people since they still fail a lot even when there’s no institution that you could see actively holding them back. That good ol anti white systemic racism. Or I could be reasonable and say that if you make poor life decisions, you get poor life outcomes. And vice versa for good life decisions. Luck and external factors will always be things you can find along the way, and some people might be born with a head start. But none of that in the US is based on skin color, it’s all based on where you grow up, how you were raised, and what life lessons you were taught. That’s your foundation for life.

@@WafleEnterprises Friend, I don’t usually get involved because a lot of the time it’s like talking to a brick wall- and I’m only responding because you sound like a reasonable person who will actually be willing to consider new information. Yes, more white people are shot by police than any other race, etc. But there are also more white people in America. If all of these problems were spread evenly among all the various racial identities in the US, the percentages should perfectly reflect the percentage breakdown of the population. If white people make up 59.3% of the population (as of 2021), they should also make up 59.3% of fatal police shootings, 59.3% of people experiencing homelessness, 59.3% of xyz. That would be fair. However, that isn’t the reality. White people make up about 49% of fatal police shootings, which is far less than the “fair” 59.3%. Black people make up around 12.6% of the population in the US. It would be “fair” if they made up 12.6% of fatal police shootings. Instead, the make up around 24% of fatal police shootings. That is way more than their “fair share.” It’s easy for politicians and others with power to show only the raw data to convince citizens that there’s no systemic racism. We have to look at proportions or we won’t see the unfairness.

Right. My question was more would they rather be preferred to as black people as opposed to African Americans like bo was suggesting, not “the blacks”. Just wanted to make that part clear.

Part of the problem is the “the” itself. It’s a distancing, othering, and lumping mechanism. See any trump speech about how “the blacks”, “the gays”, “the Muslims” love him etc etc etc. Now flip it and try it on (while understanding that the power dynamic doesn’t change so this isn’t a perfect reversal). When do you hear “the whites” or “the straights” or “the males”. It’s linguistically cold and disenfranchising and always used by dominant groups when talking to each other ABOUT a repressed group. So much so that it doesn’t even sound off to our ears that have grown accustomed to it.

@@ChrisReactsToThings I know one objection to African Americans is that not all black people have ancestral roots in Africa. There are other problems too, but I'm not well versed enough to explain them adequately.

@@ChrisReactsToThings African American is actually more offensive tbh. Black has no negative connotation. But you may call a Jamaican American African American, and that would be incorrect.

@@godzillaeyes and not all Black people are American lol

It's definitely a concern. Laughing while facing the mic, versus laughing while pointing directly at the mic are two very different things. In one, laughter will be loud; in the other, it will start to sound like you're speeding down the highway with your head out the window, if that air hits the diaphragm directly. Keeping the mic... or the face... slightly off-axis, or putting a pop-filter on it, is better for everybody's eardrums. Though a pop-filter would ruin the aesthetic with that really purdy mic.

I’m definitely conscious of it since I’m monitoring the mic output myself. Will have to figure something out. A pop filter will be too bulky and a windscreen definitely would take away from the aesthetic of the mic haha.

My thoughts exactly

Oh awesome.

I mean, it's a sick solo

Yeah, felt a bit apprehensive saying some of the things I did which is weird since my stance is on being an ally. Not sure what that means…

@@ChrisReactsToThings I totally get it, it's Crazy out there!!!!!🤣 but just enjoy the special! Bo Burnham's fantastic! And you're excellent at your job,too!

@@ChrisReactsToThings when you said you wanted to watch your words I was expecting some redpill bullshit, and was like "why's he even watching bo burnham if that's the case"

Haha I’m hoping you know better from me at this point

Sure, but an effort to be mindful is never a wasted effort imo, so kudos to him for putting that into practice. After all, it is really easy to fall into the reactionary mindset, especially since social media is kinda engineered to encourage that mindset and behavior.

I love that you brought this up, but that heckler who said “I love the idea of you!” was actually REFERENCING the audio recording of his previous special What., where there was another heckler who said “I love you,” to which Bo replied and explained that they loved the IDEA of him. Idk how many people get that reference but it’s just a fun little fact!

Check out “Out Of The Abyss,” about 3:06 in.

He got the audience to say the N-word

@@mrschips oh lol. I never thought of it that way,, thanks

Other way around. Black Americans have roots in American history. African Americans can include black Americans, Afrocarribeann Americans, literally from Africa Americans, and Afrolatinx Americans. Do you remember during the election how there were issues with calling Kamala Harris black? Thats why. She's African (specifically AfroCarribean) American (and obviously Indian American/Asian American).

i think there have been one or two cases of men who at least claimed to be trans in order to be in women's bathrooms to attack women (and i'm pretty sure they were also found to be wildly mentally ill with a history of violence) , but i can think of more republican politicians getting caught doing inidecent shit in public bathrooms and nobody's trying to ban them from using public bathrooms.

@@ISavant I haven't heard of specific cases where they claimed they were trans to get into a bathroom (I also haven't heard of men getting caught and claiming it was why they're there, which seems way more plausible than bathrooms having mysterious sentries we don't know about). I do remember a case that I think took place in Central Park? Idr exactly, but it was a bathroom off a jogging path and pretty remote and a man put on a dress and wig, walked into the bathroom, and hid there. That was as much about obscuring his identity on cameras and such as anything. But that's what-about-ism. (Not saying thats what you're doing, just that that's the bathroom bill culture) Have men disguised themselves in varying ways including cross dressing in order to better harm women? So often it's revolting. But by the time a transwoman feels more comfortable using her bathroom, you know she's done transition work (and I dont necessarily mean surgical - social transitioning is very hard and so few companies even have HR plans for a worker who transitions that we congratulate the ones that do for not allowing systemic harassment -_- ). Plus there's also transmen who usually get forgotten and I think we can all agree it takes courage to use a urinal if you haven't had surgery (and yes transmen do have ways of doing this). I'd be interested in knowing about the cases you're talking about. Technically, a decade ago, claiming to be a gender not assigned at birth was considered a mental illness. I'd just like to know what wildly mentally ill means here as traditionally, unless it's very specific circumstances like certain psychotic breaks for example, the mentally ill are far more likely yo be the victims in situations. Obviously that's not always the case, I just prefer clarity on these points. If you don't remember specifics, its fine. The hiking bathroom guy might even be one of those you're thinking of, he's the most prominent case when you search man attacks woman in public bathroom. Or he was when I looked it up. Anyway. If I haven't lost you, yea, holier than thous get caught using pick up/hook up spots all the time. And the thing is these hook up spots wherein anonymity is more common, let's put it that way, are usually only around because they closed down red light districts (if you're at all interested in the queer and kink communitys' history, as historically upon a time kink safe spaces were the only queer safe spaces, check out Time Square Red Time Square Blue. It talks a bit about when Time Square had the XXX theaters which were one of the few safer places for queer people especially men, it also touches on the amount of young queer people who needed to resort to prostitution and the types of places like the Stonewall Inn. There's a saying in the community that "The first pride was a riot." and its about the riot that took place there when police tried to roust queer people staying there and it all became violent.) Sorry for the rant I just love this topic. It took me until the day my dad died this past February to come out to him - he was in a vegetative state - and then for some reason I just blurted it out to my mom when we got home (I'm literally 3 days younger than Bo Burnham, but I'm also disabled so I lived with my parents and now just my mom). I've literally been studying it all half my life because I couldn't even admit it til 7 years ago. Bo brings weird topics out of discussions.

@@palpablenotion oh no, I'm saying that it's an objection raised by the right, but it's so vanishingly rare that pretending trans women are an actual threat to cis women is a waste of time and serves only to justify transphohia. And on top of that I don't care enough to dig up information on them anyway because I absolutely believe trans women, who are indeed women, should be able to use public restrooms

@@ISavant ♡♡♡ agree fully

Wow, a first comment that doesn't just say "first"

@@AaronKingslien what a relief

Legend

Agreed! We should take our opinions on the situation directly from the people effected! So take a look at ruined Leon talk about race and listen because he's a black man so he knows what he's talking about. Ignore his videos on Trans people though he seems to be just a tad transphobic

@@lordofthemehmehsRuined Leon isn’t a good example for this.

Bitch. You are the most racist, sexist, and judgmental human being I’ve ever encountered. White men face injustice just as often as anyone else does. Wanna know how I know that? Because a significant portion of the world holds slaves, most of those counties importing those people from other countries because taking people from theirs would make things seem suspicious. From white, black, brown, to Asian… all of them are enslaved. White people in America 7% less money on average in a household than an average Asian family. Women have a movement with traction while men have meetings about men’s issues interrupted by protestors when they just want to be treated fairly. Men do 89% of essential work and yes are treated the worst. Women consider men to be the primary aggressors when lesbian relationships have the highest rate of domestic abuse, and gay relationships (two men) have the lowest. Men are consistently the highest when it comes to being victim to work place fatalities, assaults, forced drop out, infanticide, murder, and homelessness. Straight people make up 98% (that’s not a fake statistic. Look it up.) of the entire fucking world BY ESTIMATION so that’s high balling it, so claiming that heterosexual people don’t face oppression is fucking retarded. White people male up the bottom as well, I know because I lived it. Do you know what it’s like being poorer than everyone in a POOR neighborhood? I didn’t even get to eat most of the time, so much so that I developed an eating disorder. Everyone has issues, and nobody’s issues are systematic. You are a terrible person. Please actually do research, read a book, study college studies… anything to get that ignorance out of your head. Love doesn’t see color, hate is a virus, and anyone can get a virus. I have suffered more than you no matter how bad you think you have had it. And I am a straight. White. Man.

@@natetbag you just proved their point by being a deluded incel… smh

Hmm, i didn't know that. i appreciate the clarification, cheers.

2 other points about what you said; African American also becomes a term we are programmed as Americans to say, and I’ve heard people saying it when referring to Black people from England, for instance. Or Black Americans from Jamaica. Personally I prefer “Black American” because it’s a good way to delineate a cultural experience that is not necessarily shared by an African American who is the child of African immigrants. Your point about descendants of slaves is 100% true and I’ve explained it this way, which is convenient: my wife is black, and her last name is Irish, because she loved me, married me and took my name. Her maiden name was Irish as well, but that wasn’t because there was another romance in her family tree with someone Irish; it’s because her ancestors were kidnapped and owned by my ancestors’ people. Puts shit in perspective.