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Mike Cernovich's Alt-Right Witch Hunt
from Not A Legal Expert · #106
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minRay explains how alt-right operator Mike Cernovich led the campaign against Gunn and also went after Dan Harmon for an old Dexter parody pilot and Michael Ian Black, pointing out the hypocrisy of free-speech advocates policing jokes.
- 3:23Mike Cernovich is leading a campaign against alt-right figures, going after James Gunn and getting him fired.
- 3:57Cernovich also targeted Dan Harmon over a 2009 Dexter parody pilot where the character rapes rapists.
- 4:31Tim pitches the premise as a good pilot idea: a rapist going to Denny's to find victims in the bathroom.
- 4:48Michael Ian Black from The State also got caught in Cernovich's snare of old offensive material.
- 5:09Tim compares dark humor to Holocaust jokes and gallows humor, explaining why people joke about the worst things.
- 5:45Dark jokes made in morbid workplaces don't reflect actual behavior or intent toward the deceased.
Mike CernovichDan HarmonJames GunnMichael Ian Black