Jon Stewart defended Dave Chappelle’s controversial SNL monologue — where the comedian was accused of “normalizing and popularizing” antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League.
However, Stewart defended both what Chappelle said, as well as his right to say it, and stressed the importance of having these conversations in the open.monologue that I thought was constructive, which he says, ‘It shouldn’t be this hard to talk about things.’ I’m called antisemitic because I’m against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. I’m called other things from other people based on other opinions that I have, but those shut down debate,” Stewart said.
“Whether it be comedy or discussion or anything else, if we don’t have the wherewithal to meet each other with what’s reality, then how do we move forward? If we all just shut it down, then we retreat to our little corners of misinformation and it metastasizes. The whole point of all this is to not let it metastasize and to get it out in the air and talk about it.”
The conversation then turned to Kyrie Irving and Kanye West, two more high-profile people in hot water over antisemitism. “The Kanye thing, he can be erratic, and he says things, that didn’t surprise me. The Kyrie thing surprised me, you don’t expect to get it from someone named Irving,” Stewart quipped. “Really thought he was one of ours.”. If you want to punish this man, send him to the Knicks,” Stewart added.
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