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  1. blewwholeload on

    I don’t think it’s necessary to apologize for jokes from a different time. Things change. You adapt to the times you’re in.

    There are words I don’t use today that I did all the time in high school. I’m not gonna apologize to the communities those words were offensive to. My “penance” is not using them anymore. It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.

  2. Suchgallbladder on

    Tina Fey is quietly doing the legwork for a very high profile job. She’s getting SNL when Lorne retires, it’s obvious.

  3. I read her original script for Kimmy Schmidt, it was called “Tooken.” There were so many crazy racist jokes in 30 Rock. She was all about gender progressiveness for herself and then backwards with race

  4. sans-delilah on

    There are some gags in 30 rock that haven’t aged super well, beyond just the blackface. It’s still totally watchable, and still a top tier sitcom, but there are some bits.

  5. I’m around the same age as Tina Fey, and there was so much overt socially acceptable racism in the white community in the 70s and 80s. I have always been socially progressive, so it was a kick in the pants when I went out in the real world and realized how many racist ideals were just ingrained. I remember loving Howard Stern in the 90s, but his show was so painfully racist and sexist.

    Times are changing though, and dragging white people along with it. I do think a lot of white people were and are clueless about their racism because they’ve never really been called out or put in a situation where they have to actually examine and justify their ideals. I lived with a black woman when I was 18 and I remember wanting to tell her a joke but stopped because it was racist. And then i thought, why do I even want to tell this joke if it’s offensive? That was the start of my unlearning

  6. lewisfrancis on

    Shame the article didn’t mention any specifics, not sure she was ever on the wrong side of her Palin impression, so now I’m curious.

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