Lu Teng's Recliner of Rage

shittywebcomics:

thetenk:

alphena:

stand-up-comic-gifs:

Like fiery eyeball thing, no problem. But don’t even try to imagine a Samoan elf. (x)

I uh… I understand that that is comedy, and this guy is saying this for comedy’s sake; and I understand that this is also something that actually happened…

But for those reblogging this seriously, and for those who DO NOT UNDERSTAND TOLKIEN AND HOBBIT LORE…

Hobbits come in three different “breeds”:

The Fallohides, which are the ones you see throughout the LOTR and Hobbit movies, the ones in the Shire, etc etc.
Then there’s the Stoors, and the Harfoots, which are ones NOT SEEN in any of the movies because they reside ELSEWHERE IN MIDDLE EARTH. Those ones have different builds, have darker skin tones, and different ways of living than those from the Shire, WHICH IS WHAT THEY WERE CASTING FOR BACKGROUND CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIES.

This wasn’t about fucking racism, it was about being fucking canonical and not breaking lore. You wouldn’t see a Stoor or a Harfoot in the Shire, because that’s not where they are seen in Middle Earth.

Please don’t jump to conclusions like this, goddamn.

you can’t expect reactionary dumblrs or SJ-pandering comedians to actually know anything about their subject matter, alphena.

This isn’t particularly new in fact.  People have been saying “why aren’t there black vikings in viking movies?” for years, implying that it’s racist not to have vikings portrayed as black.

This is the insanity of the culture we live in.  Just look at those guilty whites in the front row clapping in the last gif.  They’re clapping as if to say “I’m applauding myself for being so open minded.”

Cool Mod: The obligatory applause is a death sentence for a comedian. It’s what eventually killed both Dennis Leary and George Carlin’s careers.

 That guy on stage knows he just fucked up. He knows he isn’t doing his job.

MOD 1 AGAIN:  Well technically dying is what really killed Carlin’s career, but yeah the very last special, it wasn’t too good.  Although he did talk openly about how people would just scream and cheer for anything he said at a point and he really hated that.

This guy may know he fucked up, but he probably also knows that he can continue to fail upward with this kind of shit, considering the success of the daily show, which is a half hour of non-stop applause breaks for the audience to feel validated and smug.  There is no other purpose to the daily show (it’s definitely not to speak truth to power, or any truth period, because the majority of it is bullshit and obfuscation).