Jon Stewart: 'The Problem With White People,' All Like Klansmen

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 28, 2022
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The week after releasing a more or less decent critique of the media’s “bulls***” and “jail-gasm” antics with the Mueller report in his The Problem With show, Jon Stewart squandered the goodwill. With the next episode dedicated to “The Problem With White People,” Stewart and radical leftist guests (all of whom were white) engaged in a type of self-flagellation to score virtue points by suggesting all white people were at some level racist, even on the level of the KKK.

Before bringing on said panel, Stewart showed off a video by Saturday Night Live “comedian” Leslie Jones where she proclaimed “Racism is a spectrum” and asked viewers: “what degree of racist are you?”

According to this “spectrum,” racism ranged from skinheads and the KKK to “Lynyrd Skynyrd fans” and “[t]he ladies who think Megyn McCain got bullied on The View.” “That bitch didn’t get bullied, she ain’t get bullied,” Jones sneered.

She also suggested that even if you didn’t fall into one of her examples that meant you belonged in “the unconscious bias” category, or as she described it, “a catch-all for the rest of y’all.”

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