"whatever happened to just being against racism?"

I HOLD THAT REESE WATERS does what Stephen Colbert is held to have done,  far better and far more extensively and far funnier.  Maybe part of that is, unlike a short monologue where Colbert couldn't develop the ideas behind the comedy,  due to the format of the shows he did,  Reese Waters has his own video production where he does that for a half hour or more every day most weeks.   

This one is beyond just brilliant, showing the hypocrisy of the media, big tech, the government, etc.  on the topics of racism and discrimination.  And Reese Waters goes places I doubt Colbert would dare to go or where, really, just about any white comedian would go - and I don't mean in a white shock-jock comedian way.  He's the real thing, not the George Carlin, Lenny Bruce kind of phony.   Maybe Colbert will do something similar, now that he's rich and has free time on his hands.   Though I doubt even he will do it better than this. 

Here's how he frames the issue:

And just in case you want to update on what happened, a 19-year-old college student quietly turns down a job interview, stupidly telling the company it's because he doesn't want to work for a Jew. Within two days, the billionaire founder of one of the world's most powerful corporations, Palantir, demands that the company release the students name to the world. The company instantly complies. National media trumpet the incident and spread the student's name and face all over the place. A senior Trump DOJ official repeatedly urges the public to notify him if that student is ever hired anywhere in the future, promising to use his office to keep the student permanently unemployable.

I say, "Hold up, wait a minute. Something ain't right." Adults with large influential platforms, pundits, media types, even elected officials right here on X, routinely say things as bad as and often much worse than pretty much every other group you can think of without facing a single consequence, let alone a completely unhinged, coordinated campaign of very powerful people to ruin their lives forever. 

Now, whatever happened to just being against racism?

I will note that Palantir is in the business of destroying everyone's privacy in as many ways as possible and turning the information they dig up about you - and who knows how much of that  ABOUT YOU is not in any way true - and selling it to corporations and governments and who knows who else.  THAT ALONE SHOULD BRING THIS RIGHT ON HOME TO EVERYONE OF ANY IDENTITY.   THIEL IS DOING NOW WHAT IBM WAS DOING IN GERMANY  IN THE 1930s.  And today they can collect a lot more than census information about you.  How's that for irony, given the spark that set this off?   And, notice, they're also recapitulating what the Nazis did in trying to do things like make sure this kid never works again in his life. 

It's so full of good points that it's impossible to do justice to it without editing the entire transcript but here's a bit of it. 

And while we're on the topic of of discrimination, because this struck me as this struck me as amazing, right, as I'm preparing for this and I'm talk and I'm looking into Elon Musk and uh the class action lawsuits that have been brought against uh Tesla. Oh, wait. Trump was sued for discriminating against black folk now, wasn't he?

And here we go again.

So, we are going to the mattresses to make sure this kid never sees the light of day again for not wanting to work for a Jew.  But it wasn't disqualifying for the president to discriminate against black folk.

Reese rejected the original statement by the kid early in the video but then he went on to dissect the reaction of the billionaires, the millionaires,  FOX Lies and other media, the Trump regime to that one statement which was made by a 19-year-old turning down a job,  the guy he turned down exposing him,  a billionaire demanding that he be doxxed and then the national news and the Trump regime vowing to destroy the kid's life for that one thing.   

You have to wonder why the guy he turned down didn't try to change his mind instead of just posting what he said, then bowing to a request by Palantir that he identify the kid and destroy his life.   The kid concluded that they'd confirmed his prejudice by doing that.   Which one of those two do you think is what has to be done to defeat prejudice?  

IF THE GOAL ISN'T TO CONVERT PEOPLE TO GIVE UP THEIR PREJUDICES THEN THIS SHTICK IS WORSE THAN USELESS, IT IS GRATUITOUS IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY.  

Here's more from Mr. Waters to show the total hypocrisy of the whole thing, from FOX Lies down.

This is egregious work. This is nasty, egregious work. If you want to get real nasty, Darren Bey finished his senior role within the State Department in May. Not pushed out, not fired. He was allowed to rock. And who is this, you might ask? 

Flashback.  Former Trump speech writer who was fired for attending a conference with white nationalists appointed to top State Department role. There you see him right there on the left next to Kash Patel.

Darren Bey, a former Donald Trump speech writer who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attending by white nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Department. Multiple sources familiar with the move told CNN,

"According to Fox News and all the people weighing in on X, this kid should never work again for saying he doesn't want to work for a Jew. He should never work again."

But the guy with ties to white nationalists got a job at the State Department.

Reese Waters goes extensively into the online and other publicly available expression of blantant, vicious racism POSTED UNDER BEY'S OWN NAME AND IDENTITY but which has cost him not so much as an attack at FOX Lies or other influential media or has even cost him work with the Trump regime. 

You really owe it to yourself to listen to the entire video.  It is surpassingly good. 

If I were in a position to do it,  I'd nominate Reese Waters for every journalism award there is for this one video, it is one of the most brilliant dissections of how racism against Black People, against other People of Color is still, in 2026 ENTIRELY ACCEPTABLE EVERYWHERE IN POLITE SOCIETY, IN POLITICS, IN JOURNALISM, ETC.  John Roberts' lie that the election of Barack Obama proved America was a post-racist society was a lie told so he could reimpose Jim Crow and American apartheid.   But that prejudice against one group, generally perceived to be white, is the one and only one that is really held to be beyond the pale.  That is unless it's a Republican-fascist who says it.   Trump has said worse things about Jews than what got this dumb kid in so much hot water.