Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, has been caught in a second racism scandal this week as an old joke he made is being called racist and sexist. Noah made the joke about indigenous Australians in 2013 and now activists are calling for a boycott.Noah has apologized for the joke but has doubled down on his ethnonationalist argument about "africa winning the world cup" and argument that white nationalists have agreed with.So is Trevor Noah actually racist or have the social justice rules just gotten so out of hand that everyone will be destroyed by old comments and jokes?Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)
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Activists in Australia are calling for a boycott of Trevor Noah, who you probably know from The Daily Show, over a joke that has surfaced from 2013 where he made some insinuations about the beauty of indigenous Australian women and some implications about sexual activities they engage in.
Many people were offended by this and are saying they should boycott him in Australia.
This isn't the only racism scandal Noah has been involved in this week, because just a few days ago he made comments about the French World Cup team, implying that their victory was a victory for Africa, which is essentially an alt-right argument.
So what exactly did Trevor Noah say in 2013?
What are activists saying about it?
And is this second scandal evidence that Trevor Noah is racist?
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The story from The Guardian, Trevor Noah responds to boycott calls over racist joke about aboriginal women.
Ahead of Australian tour, comedian vows never to make a joke like that again after footage resurfaces from 2013.
A number of prominent Indigenous Australians called for the boycott of Noah's upcoming tour of Australia after the video of a stand-up routine in which he made a racist joke about Aboriginal women and their appearance resurfaced online.
All women of every race can be beautiful, the comedian and host of The Daily Show said during the routine from five years ago.
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There's no such thing as the most beautiful race.
All women of every race can be beautiful.
There's no such thing as the most beautiful race.
Because facially, every woman has different features.
You can be beautiful no matter what race you are.
Yeah, women all can have beautiful faces.
Women can all have beautiful boobs.
That's just a standard thing, you know.
All women of every race can be beautiful.
And I know some of you are sitting there now going, oh Trevor, yeah, but I've never seen a beautiful Aborigine.
Yeah, but you know what you say?
You say, yes.
That's what you say.
Yes.
Because you haven't seen all of them, right?
And plus it's not always about looks.
Yeah.
Maybe Aborigine women do special things.
Yes.
Maybe they'll just like jump on top of you and just be like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I don't know.
In the story, they go on to say that Noah also imitated the sound of a didgeridoo to imply oral sex during the routine.
The routine was shared on Twitter by former NRL player Joe Williams, who called it utterly unacceptable.
Williams, who is indigenous, wrote to Noah that, as a man of color, you are usually in point with racism and divide.
Here, you are perpetrating and encouraging racial abuse.
Dr. Anita Hess tweeted, I am so disgusted and appalled by the comments by Trevor Noah and his attempted humor that denigrates Aboriginal women.
I hope Australians boycott his show in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Australia.
That kind of humor is not funny and does damage.
To which Trevor Noah replied, You're right.
After visiting Australia's Bunjilaka Museum and learning about Aboriginal history firsthand, I vowed never to make a joke like that again, and I haven't.
I'll make sure the clip from 2013 is not promoted in any way.
And here are a few other tweets highlighted by The Guardian.
This person, Nayuka, said, She then added,
Nakia Louise said, Yo Trevor Noah, I'm beautiful because I'm aboriginal.
I'm strong because I'm aboriginal.
I'm loved because I'm aboriginal.
I'm smart because I'm aboriginal.
I am surrounded by beautiful aboriginal women who aren't punchlines, they're warrior goddesses.
Now you heard the joke that Trevor Noah made, and though you could say that the didgeridoo sounds were a bit racist, The point of the joke was that everyone is beautiful regardless of their race.
And he said other people might say that about aboriginal women, and his joke was actually to refute a point that was racist.
It's interesting that Trevor Noah, who is typically aligned with the progressive left, is now facing the brunt of these types of accusations and outrage.
These were rules created by the social justice left, now being wielded against those who consider themselves to be a part of the progressive social justice left.
I also want to point out that the term aborigine is considered offensive, and the correct term is aboriginal or indigenous.
And in the joke, Trevor Noah is quoted as saying the racist aborigine.
So this is considered by many people to be racist.
What makes this particular story interesting is the kind of rebound effect from the social justice left But also the fact that Trevor Noah actually made an alt-right argument when he was talking about the World Cup, and I'm not being hyperbolic.
From CNN, Trevor Noah defends, quote, Africa won the World Cup joke.
South African comedian Trevor Noah responded to criticism from a French diplomat over comments he made on his U.S.
comedy news show about the country's World Cup win.
After France lifted the trophy with a 4-2 victory over Croatia on Sunday afternoon, the Daily Show host congratulated Africa on winning the tournament.
Yes, yes, Africa won the World Cup.
Africa won the World Cup, Noah joked, on the July 17 episode of the show.
I get it, I get it.
They have to say it's the French team, but look at those guys.
You don't get that tan by hanging out in the south of France, Noah said.
France's ambassador to the US, Gerard Arraud, rebuked the comedian in a stern letter that Noah read to the studio audience during a commercial break on Wednesday.
Arraud was quoted as saying he watched the episode with great attention, and said of Noah's comments that nothing could be less true.
The letter emphasized that the rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of France's diversity.
France does not refer to its citizen based on their race, religion, or origin, to us.
There is no hyphenated identity.
Noah quoted the French diplomat in the letter, adding that the comedian's comments about the player seem to deny their Frenchness.
This, even in jest, legitimizes the idea which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French.
If you're subscribed to my second channel, YouTube.com slash TimCastNews, you will have seen that I made a video addressing this, and some alt-right people actually responded.
In agreement with Trevor Noah.
Now, Trevor Noah says the point of his statement was to be inclusive, to say that they are French and African.
He tweeted, saying, When I say they're African, I'm not saying it as a way to
exclude them from their Frenchness.
I'm saying it to include them in my African-ness.
He countered to the diplomat by saying, Black people around the world were supporting the African-ness
of the French side at the World Cup.
I'm saying I see you, my French brother of African descent, Noah added,
arguing against the notion that in order to be French, you have to do away with what makes you African.
Gerard Araud tweeted, end of the argument with Trevor Noah.
He didn't refer to a double identity.
He said, they are African.
They couldn't get this suntan in the south of France, i.e., They can't be French because they are black.
The argument of the white supremacist.
In response to the video I made where I challenged Trevor Noah's claim, Millennial Woes, who is considered to be an alt-right YouTuber, made this comment.
I could only bear the first four minutes of this video.
Timcast flails around about an African guy calling his French co-racials African.
Tim says this is racist, and the men are French, not African.
LOL Tim, wake up.
This is how most people operatel.
I think he might have meant operate might be a typo.
He then added, they are African, Timcast.
Passports are no match for the sheer force of racial identity.
He then tweeted this.
LOL at Timcast.
If this guy is French, why did he donate his World Cup earnings to building a mosque in Africa?
LOL.
I disagree with Millennial Woes on the issue.
There are a lot of people around the world that donate to building schools and churches, mosques in various parts of the world, including Africa.
But Trevor Noah stood by his statement that Africa won, and this upset the French diplomat.
What's interesting next is an argument made by both Trevor Noah and, again, the alt-right.
In response to Millennial Woes, this Twitter user said, When non-French people help France win a World Cup, they
are referred to as immigrants.
When non-French people commit a terrorist attack, it is referred to as homegrown.
So, all clear on the newspeak.
Hashtag fake news.
Trevor Noah tweeted yesterday, I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose.
It's the same argument from two different perspectives.
That one side views it as a positive to be an immigrant, and the other side essentially as a negative.
That both sides are in the same territory of debate, arguing very similar things, but on the other side of the coin.
When Trevor Noah says he's being inclusive by calling these men African, the alt-right agrees with him.
They say that these men are African, and their passport is no match for their racial identity.
They then go on to argue a similar point about when the person does something good, they're considered native or immigrant, and vice versa.
So the question remains, is Trevor Noah racist?
And there's no simple answer.
But the issue at hand is that as progressive rules continually become more overbearing, as more people get called out for making offensive jokes, more and more people are being called racist.
Right now, there are many progressive activists calling for a boycott because Trevor Noah is racist.
The French diplomat says what he said was an argument of white supremacists, and people who are alt-right are actually defending the statement made by Trevor Noah.
Now, I'm not here to point a finger and call Trevor Noah racist, but when you have people in the alt-right actually defending your arguments, when you have Dippin' Latz saying you are making a white supremacist argument, and when you have progressive activists calling for your boycott because you are racist, by their definition, you are racist.
The rules are being laid out by progressive social justice activists, and many people who consider themselves aligned with these groups are the ones facing the brunt of it.
James Gunn, whether or not he's a far-left activist, has been very critical of Trump, and now offensive jokes have surfaced, and he's lost his job.
These are the rules not created by those who want free speech, but are certainly being wielded by those who are trying to hold everyone to the same standard.
As I mentioned in my video just the other day, it seems like a lot of people are pushing this for political reasons.
That James Gunn's firing might just be because people want to wield these rules against those they view as part of the establishment or who are their opponents.
But here we can see the rule being wielded exactly as intended by the progressive left.
Activists in Australia calling out Trevor Noah.
The French ambassador calling out Trevor Noah.
By their standards, Trevor Noah is a racist, making white supremacist arguments, and actually being defended by the alt-right.
But let me know what you think in the comments below.
Do you think Trevor Noah is racist, or do you think all of these rules are just ridiculous and extreme?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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