Columbia University Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage For Making Unsafe Jokes

Columbia University Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage For Making Unsafe Jokes

That's not funny. "The Spectator, though, lists one of the allegedly inappropriate jokes: "During the event, Patel's performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City—including a joke about a gay, black man in his neighborhood—which AAA officials deemed inappropriate. Patel joked that being gay cannot be a choice because "no one looks in the mirror and thinks, 'this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.'" The joke acknowledges that black people and gay people suffer oppression, and that a person who is both gay and black suffers "stacked" oppression. This joke seems almost perfectly "intersectional.""