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Photo: Getty Images The NAACP is calling on the University of South Carolina to cancel a scheduled event where right-wing figures will “roast” Vice President Kamala Harris. According to The Hill, the NAACP sent a letter to University of South Carolina President Michael Amiridis, urging him to cancel the event because of its “blatant sexist … Continued

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Photo: Getty Images The NAACP is calling on the University of South Carolina to cancel a scheduled event where right-wing figures will “roast” Vice President Kamala Harris. According to The Hill, the NAACP sent a letter to University of South Carolina President Michael Amiridis, urging him to cancel the event because of its “blatant sexist … Continued

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    A roast is done with the subject in attendance. And they get a chance to respond. This is just a clan rally under a different name.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    A roast is a form of comedy in which a specific individual, a guest of honor, is subjected to jokes at their expense, intended to amuse the event’s wider audience. Such events are intended to honor a specific individual in a unique way.

    You can’t roast someone who isn’t in attendance, you stupid fuckers.

    Load up on rotten eggs and vegetables and pelt the fuckers as they walk in.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    In a joint statement with Thad Westbrook, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees, Amiridis said the school is “steadfast in safeguarding the First Amendment rights of our students, even when we may be offended by their choices and statements.”

    Yeah… so…. When asshole racists who want to bring back slavery do their thing, it’s “we protect their first amendment rights”, but when it’s people being like “genocide is bad”, it’s “antisemitic riots can’t be tolerated”?

  • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    The event is scheduled to be hosted by the student chapter of Uncensored America, a nonpartisan organization fighting for freedom of speech, on September 18.** Gavin McInnes**, founder of the Proud Boys, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing media personality, have been named as the event’s “roastmasters.”