Columbia University Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage For Making Unsafe Jokes
Event organizers apologize for “the hurt his words caused members of the community.”
Nimesh Patel, a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live, was yanked from the stage in the midst of his routine at Columbia University on Friday after students decided his material was homophobic, racist, and making them feel unsafe.
Columbia’s Asian American Alliance (AAA) had invited Patel to perform during the group’s annual charity event, “Cultureshock: Reclaim,” a title that sounds a little too exciting and provocative, honestly, given the students’ apparent need for maximum security and comfort.
AAA is run by students, which means it was their decision to pull Patel from the stage after he made jokes that they deemed racist and homophobic, according to The Columbia Daily Spectator. I emailed AAA to ask what exactly Patel said that was so offensive; the group sent me a statement that did not clarify matters.
The Spectator, though, lists one of the allegedly inappropriate jokes:
During the event, Patel’s performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City—including a joke about a gay, black man in his neighborhood—which AAA officials deemed inappropriate. Patel joked that being gay cannot be a choice because “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, ‘this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.'”
The joke acknowledges that black people and gay people suffer oppression, and that a person who is both gay and black suffers “stacked” oppression. This joke seems almost perfectly “intersectional.”
Intersectionality, the operarting system of the modern left, requires everyone to recognize that different forms of oppression are interrelated, and that they stack. The problem for Patel, however, is that intersectionality also recognizes the oppressed as the sole experts on their own oppression. Thus Patel should not have commented on matters relating to black people or gay people, since he is neither gay nor black.
“if you’re Black and gay, you don’t need a straight South Asian guy to point out that your life is hard because you’re Black and gay,” wrote a student, Liberty Martin, in an op-ed. Martin accused Patel of “blatant anti-blackness,” with reference to the above joke, specifically. Even though the joke reflects a sentiment that gay and black students want everyone to recognize as reality—that life as a gay, black student is hard—the fact that it was made by an Asian guy means it’s actually evidence of anti-black bias. (It doesn’t have to make sense, you just have to obey.)
Perhaps Patel went on to say actually insensitive things—why the easily offended would attend any comedy show, ever, is fodder for another discussion—but if this joke is representative of his set, the outrage looks that much more ridiculous.
Patel made it 30 minutes before organizers cut off the routine. According to The Spectator:
Patel pushed back on the officials’ remarks, and said that while he stood in solidarity with Asian American identities, none of his remarks were offensive, and he was exposing the audience to ideas that would be found “in the real world.” Before he could finish, Patel’s microphone was cut from off-stage, and he proceeded to leave.
AAA released a statement on Facebook condemning Patel’s remarks, which “ran counter to the inclusive spirit and integrity of CultureSHOCK.” They apologized for inviting Patel, and for “the hurt his words caused members of the community.”
Many students in the audience agreed with AAA’s decision to end the event prematurely. One told the student newspaper that Patel’s jokes “contradicted the sensitive nature of the event.” Another had this to say:
“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it’s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”
When things like this happen, it’s hard to deny that some college campuses have a student fragility problem.
Article via Reason
Cardi B Shows Curves in Body Painted Tiger Look After Saying She’s ‘Depressed’ Over Weight Loss
Cardi B got in touch with her wild side.
The “Money” rapper, 26, sported an eye-catching tiger-inspired look as she frolicked and twerked in the ocean on the set of a new music video shoot. The star got decked out in an orange bra and thong and appeared to airbrush paint her entire body (from head-to-toe!) orange with black tiger stripes. On her back, detailed tiger eyes were painted on while further down on her butt, the look was completed with the whiskers and mouth.
The paint used on Cardi’s body was so waterproof, not one bit of the body art smudged as the star got down in the ocean.
Cardi’s revealing look comes nearly three weeks after the rapper opened up in an Instagram live about feeling “depressed” about losing too much weight after giving birth to her first child, daughter Kulture Kiari, in July.
“I’ve been very depressed because I cannot stop losing weight,” Cardi said. “And it’s so crazy because when I first gave birth, I did everything to lose my baby weight. I was drinking Teami [weight loss tea] so it could curb my appetite and now that I lost all the baby weight I don’t like looking too skinny.”
The Bronx-born star added that she’s never liked looking thin.
“I used to look too skinny as a teenager and I used to hate it and I hate it now,” she said. “It’s been really depressing me, making me sad. My weight. You know what I’m saying.”
However, in August one month after welcoming her daughter, Cardi revealed she wanted to get liposuction to remove some extra weight and loose skin around her stomach.
“I still feel like I got a lot of love handles right here,” she said in another Instagram Live video, as she pulled on her tummy. “It’s not much but it’s like — I’m used to having, like, a real tight stomach.”
She’s also taken a liking to using duct tape to lift up her breasts and make them look extra perky for red carpet appearances post-pregnancy.
“Oh this s— is crazy. I have never done this s— in my life but f— it. I have to f—ing tape my titties up because son! Giving birth and s—, like my titties was already like a little low, low you know what I’m saying? Cause I got my tits done when I was 19 and I never wore a bra and s— so, you know what I’m saying?” Cardi said in a very honest sentiment to her followers on her Instagram Story.
“When I was pregnant my s— was looking nice though, nice. I was like, ‘Oh s—!’ Now though? Now Kulture did me filthy!” she continued, jokingly blaming daughter Kulture for making her chest saggier.
And then she hinted that she just might go under the knife later this year to get a second breast augmentation surgery so her chest would look more lifted.
“I don’t give a f—. If y’all mothaf—ers see me gone in November, December I’m getting my tits done! I don’t give a f—,” Cardi said. “Matter of fact, I’m not even gonna call it surgery. I’m just gonna say a titty renovation cause I gotta renovate these s—s!”
Article via People
Controversial Gene Editing Physicist Missing
A Chinese doctor recently claimed he edited the CRISPR gene on a fetus, an illegal act. Now, he’s missing…
‘Target Teresa’ caught on video harassing black customers
A white Target customer was caught on camera harassing a group of black shoppers in Tennessee, telling them they “don’t belong here” and accusing them of inappropriately talking about sex in public.
“You were talking about sex in public. Are you having sex in public because that’s what you screamed out loud,” the woman — quickly nicknamed “Target Teresa” and “Target Tammy” online — says in since-deleted footage posted to Facebook on Friday.
The women whom “Target Teresa” is accosting try to explain that they were just talking about jazz legend Eartha Kitt’s character in the 1992 comedy “Boomerang” and even turn around to try to disengage.
But the NASA sweatshirt-wearing accuser isn’t having it.
“I didn’t realize talking about sex in public was normal. I know you’re trained on lying. You’re perfect for the court system because you’re all trained liars,” she says.
During the approximately four minutes of the altercation caught on tape, “Target Teresa” also calls the women “abusive.”
One of the women in the group, who didn’t want to be identified, told Yahoo Lifestyle she was “confused” by the whole incident.
“My cousin and I were visiting my best friend from out of state and we stopped by Target to buy a phone charger,” she said. “I told my friend to try on a hat that looked like something Eartha Kitt’s character would wear in the film and she said no because her character had sex with a younger man.”
Then “Target Teresa” popped her head over the accessories display.
“She told us, ‘You shouldn’t be talking about sex,’” the woman told the outlet. “We were confused — then, she came around the corner with her shopping cart and started ranting, ‘You don’t belong here’ and calling our conversation inappropriate.”
Man arrested for hammering ice pick-like tool through housemate’s genitals
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah – Police say a Utah man held his housemate at gunpoint, bound him to a chair and then told him he could choose between death in the desert or having a nail hammered through his genitals.
Jason Dee Maughn, 45, had a warrant out for his arrest since early September. According to charging documents, the assault occurred on August 30 in Salt Lake County when Maughn got into a fight that night with a man who was living in the home with him.
During the argument, Maughn allegedly held a shotgun to the other man’s head and made him sit in a chair before handcuffing him to the arm rests.
Maughn then told the victim he could, “either be taken to the desert to be killed or Maughn could drive a nail into [victim’s] penis,” the document states.
Maughn allegedly told the other man he would shoot him if he tried to fight back.
The victim chose the latter of the two options, and Maughn used a rusty hammer to drive a tool resembling an ice pick through the victim’s penis and into a board, according to the document.
Maughn then released the man, who sought medical attention the next morning.
Court records show Maughn was booked at the Salt Lake County Jail on Sunday and faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sex assault, mayhem and aggravated assault.
He is being held on a $250,000 bond.
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Wade Brown’s Album coffee is what I would describe as Neosoul. I can imagine myself in a candle lit night club sippin on an espresso sarounded by unapologetic Afro centric blackness. Listening to Wade Brown. After that I’d be treated to some spoken word. But don’t take my word for it. Just get you a tall glass of coffee and click play.
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High school football players suspended for running naked with Oreos wedged in buttocks
BYRON, Ill. – Administrators at an Illinois high school suspended ten football players for stripping naked and running across the field with Oreo cookies between their buttocks last month, according to The Rockford Register Star,
Dubbed the “Oreo run,” the streaking incident was voluntary and not related to hazing, according to Byron High School officials, who reportedly interviewed almost 30 players and all of the coaches.
According to a letter to parents obtained by the paper, the incident happened on Oct. 26th but school officials did not learn about it until Nov. 8th. Parents were called the next day.
It’s unclear if the students were suspended from class.
“The report was promptly relayed to me and I immediately directed that an investigation take place,” said volunteer assistant Sean Considine. “(They) interviewed all nine football coaches. They also interviewed nearly 30 members of the varsity football team, many in the presence of one or more parent. They also accessed and examined footage from various security cameras at or near the stadium.”
The three games that the players missed included the Class 3A state championship game in which Byron lost 24-20. That was the team’s only loss of the season.
Man accused of drugging, raping girlfriend as she slept
WAUKESHA, Wis. – A 20-year-old man walked into a Wisconsin police department and confessed to drugging and raping his girlfriend, according to prosecutors.
Edgardo Nieves faces four felony charges including false imprisonment, administering a dangerous or stupefying drug and two counts of second degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim.
Nieves appeared in court Monday and a judge set a cash bond of $75,000. A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 10. He was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim.
According to a criminal complaint, Nieves told police sex with his girlfriend at her Waukesha apartment was consensual at first. During an interview with investigators, his girlfriend said he “loved to watch her sleep” and later confided that he “had a fetish about having sexual intercourse with an unconscious or dead person.”
Nieves said the alleged encounters started earlier this year when he had sex with his girlfriend while she slept. When she didn’t wake up during the incident, Nieves told investigators he “wanted this to continue,” according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said he admitted he bought drugs “that would knock her out” and added it to her “food or in her drink” on at least 10 occasions. His girlfriend said she suspected the drugging after waking up in pain and with burn marks, from what he told her were cigarettes.
She once attempted to escape through an apartment balcony, but Nieves said he didn’t let that happen, according to police.
Nieves’ family issued this statement to WITI:
“The man being charged is not the warm, kind-hearted young man that we have known his entire life. Our child was introduced to heroin and a sadistic sexual lifestyle by the ‘victim’ (who has a storied history with the correctional system, having previously been convicted of and serving time for multiple felonies). He is saying things that are so completely out of character and, frankly, beyond his level of comprehension that we strongly believe he has been coerced and manipulated by the alleged ‘victim’ to admit to crimes he did not actually commit.
We have confidence that the truth will be revealed and our child’s innocence proven. We encourage all parents and caretakers to be realistic about the dangers and availability of drugs and to be keenly aware of the people with whom their children associate. Insist upon meeting them, get to know them and communicate ceaselessly and honestly with your children.
We pray that this doesn’t happen to anyone else and pray that the manipulative grip the ‘victim’ has over our child is loosened so he may speak freely and honestly and avoid serving time for crimes he did not commit.
-The family of Edgardo Nieves, Jr.”
via: https://pix11.com/2018/12/03/man-accused-of-drugging-raping-girlfriend-as-she-slept/
Soros-founded university says it has been kicked out of Hungary as an autocrat tightens his grip
BERLIN — An American university established a quarter-century ago to educate a new generation of leaders and scholars after communism’s collapse in Central and Eastern Europe said Monday it has been kicked out of its home in Hungary.
The ejection marked one of the surest signals to date of autocracy’s return to the country, and the region, after decades of relative freedom. It is the first time a university has been forced out of an European Union nation.
Central European University has long been considered among the world’s finest graduate schools, attracting students from across the globe, and it is widely seen as the best in Hungary.
But the university, which was founded by Hungarian American financier George Soros, has also been the target for nearly two years of a right-wing government that has systematically consolidated control and marginalized dissent.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been particularly ruthless in attacking anything associated with Soros, whose open and liberal philosophy is the antithesis of the illiberal, nationalist and nativist view celebrated by Orban.
The university said Monday it was left with no choice but to move its primary campus to Vienna next year after Orban’s government refused to acknowledge an agreement that would enable the school to continue to admit new students in Budapest.
“Arbitrary eviction of a reputable university is a flagrant violation of academic freedom,” the university said in announcing the move. “It is a dark day for Europe and a dark day for Hungary.
The university, which has dual accreditation in Hungary and the United States, has enjoyed robust, bipartisan backing in Congress, where members expressed concern about the threat to academic freedom and the precedent of a U.S. institution being kicked out by an American ally.
Despite the Soros affiliation, CEU was also, for a time, even defended by the Trump administration. President Trump’s ambassador arrived in Budapest this summer on a mission, he said, to broker an agreement and keep CEU in the country.
But last week, after it became clear there would be no deal, Ambassador David B. Cornstein broke with previous U.S. policy on the matter. In an interview with The Washington Post, he refused to criticize Orban — whom he described as his “friend” — and pinned the blame on Soros, who he said had been insufficiently acquiescent to the government.
Cornstein — an 80-year-old New Yorker who made his fortune in the jewelry, gambling and telemarketing businesses and is a close friend of Trump’s — compared the university’s plight to his own experience selling jewelry at department stores.
“I was a guest in another guy’s store,” he said. “The university is in another country. It would pay to work with the government.”
He also minimized the university’s importance — comparing its 1,500 students unfavorably with what he described as much larger campuses at Ohio State and Michigan — and appeared baffled by why the school’s fate had generated wider interest.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with academic freedom,” he said.
The government’s campaign against CEU began in early 2017, soon after Trump’s inauguration. Legislation passed that spring by the Hungarian parliament appeared to specifically target the university by requiring all foreign-based school to have academic programs in their home countries.
CEU created a program at Bard College, in New York, and it was certified by state authorities. But the Hungarian government did not acknowledge the arrangement, and last month government officials signaled that they never would.
With the legislation set to take effect on Jan. 1, university leaders said they were forced to shift to Vienna to continue admitting new students.
“The government has done an injustice toward its own citizens, the hundreds of Hungarians who work and study at CEU, and thousands of Hungarian alumni and their families,” said Michael Ignatieff, the university’s president, in a statement released Monday.
Hungarian government officials have said the university has not complied with all aspects of the law, though they have declined to spell out publicly exactly how.
Zoltan Kovacs, a senior Hungarian official, said in an interview that he believes the university’s decision to move is a bluff and that it will ultimately back down.
“CEU is going to remain,” said Kovacs, who is a CEU alumnus.
Outside the Hungarian Parliament last week, students staged a last-ditch attempt to force the government to change its mind. They erected white canvas tents, and held a “teach-in” in which professors conducted their classes round-the-clock in the freezing cold of late fall in Hungary.
Zalan Jakab, a 23-year-old Hungarian who was among the students taking part, said in his home region, the vast majority of people hear little about the university beyond government propaganda and regard CEU “as an evil place.”
The protest, he said, was designed to show the public the true face of a school that is “the top of the league in Hungary in terms of educational quality.”
Ultimately, though, it was not enough to make a difference in the university’s fate.
“It’s a big loss,” said Jakab, who is studying political science. “I feel ashamed that my government has done this.”
Article via The Washington Post
Tiffany Trump Is Reportedly Dating Michael Boulos, A Millionaire From Nigeria
Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family.
Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria-a country which Tiffany’s father President Trump once referred to as a “shithole country.” Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,”Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?”
“Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar,” explains Page Six’s source. “But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as a very intelligent young man from a great family. There was no mention of the president’s unfortunate comment about African nations.”
President Trump later denied using the word “shithole” to describe Nigeria as a country, but did admit that he had used “tough” language when referring to the country behind closed doors. While hosting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Washington, D.C. in April, Business Insider quotes Trump as referring to “some countries that are in very bad shape.”