Saturday Night Live definitely leans left, they love to make fun of conservatives. But every once in a while they poke fun at the left. In this case, they made a joke about gender identity on the dating application Tinder. They also pulled the election into it.
In case you didn’t see it, here’s the joke:
Social justice warriors on Twitter were not happy:
What the fuck is this @SNLUpdate pic.twitter.com/Q3PTZghM5g
— Sam Escobar ? (@myhairisblue) November 21, 2016
Trans & gender nonconforming people are more likely to be harassed, attacked, abused, discriminated against — but yeah. LOL DEMS! @SNLUpdate
— Sam Escobar ? (@myhairisblue) November 21, 2016
Dear @ColinJost and @nbcsnl: thank you so much for supporting the erasure of non-cis people. Thanks for actively contributing to oppression.
— Sam Escobar ? (@myhairisblue) November 21, 2016
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@ColinJost i don't think, as a professional comedian, it can possibly escape you how this joke is punching way way down.
— Emma Phipps (@phippsdontlie) November 22, 2016
@ColinJost You wish you had a point. Instead it's just tired old LGBT-shaming disguised as edgy commentary.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) November 22, 2016
The fallout of this election has been a beautiful destruction. Intolerance is everywhere and it is eye opening to the masses. https://t.co/BbdFsO1Frh
— NateGlobal (@NateGlobal713) November 21, 2016
And before you say its "just a joke," here are 2 reminders:
1) jokes like these normalize oppression
2) SNL doesn't know how to write jokes.— Sam Escobar ? (@myhairisblue) November 21, 2016
Lighten up, snowflakes!
The actor in the skit ultimately responded:
@PWRBTTMBAND so you think 100 percent of Trump voters were hatred and 0 percent had any other rationale?
— Colin Jost (@ColinJost) November 22, 2016
@PWRBTTMBAND It's politics. A lot of politics is messaging and getting America on board. I want to examine how we failed at that goal.
— Colin Jost (@ColinJost) November 22, 2016
@PWRBTTMBAND I worry about not doing any self-examination and making the same mistake again.
— Colin Jost (@ColinJost) November 22, 2016
Wow. It looks like Colin Jost is way ahead of the Democratic Party.
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