Jon Stewart did what his friend Dave Chappelle has refused to do: apologize for his “reductive” punchlines and attempt to redeem himself.
“We are in a new dawn of gender and sex complexity, where those who don’t fit in a simple binary are meant to be seen with humanity,” he says. “It wasn’t always like this, people. As recently as, let’s say, the 1990s, early 2000s, people were making shitty, reductive jokes about the subject.”appeared on screen beside him. “What can I say, the joke rhymed,” he adds. “Shitty and reductive jokes are kind of my brand.
From there, the host moves on to more modern examples of the “vicious backlash” to this new moment of “progressive visibility” and notably does not include any video evidence of his past transgressions.from 2013 calling on both Stewart and his Comedy Central partner Stephen Colbert to “reject transphobia” on their respective shows cites a couple of examples.
So as cathartic as it is during the new episode to watch him challenge the ignorant arguments of conservative pundits like Ben Shapiro—and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, whom he speaks to directly—Stewart knows that he is hardly seen as an authority on the issue. That’s why he also brings in an endocrinologist, two parents of trans children, and Chase Strangio, a trans attorney with the ACLU, to help him understand what the anti-trans movement is getting so wrong.
The simple fact that Stewart decided to dedicate his show’s Season 2 premiere to the topic—and acknowledge that he has historically been part of the problem—is commendable. And it stands in sharp contrast to his
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