Washed up 90s Hercules Blacksplaining what it means to be black

Hey white people...sit this one out.
- But I wanna call him stupid names for being a dipshit.
- yea, this isn't a typical "white" view
  
  Edit, read this backwards, my bad
  
  If only.
- Hey black people... that's it really, just saying hello.
  
  Hey black people can I have your grandmother's recipe for mac and cheese
  
  OMG HAII!!
- Can we sit it out AFTER we can him a piece of shit? I think that’s important for anybody who wants to be an ally to be heard too.
  We don’t want to be like all those “good” cops and “good” republicans that everybody is waiting to hear speak up.
- Do what I always do? Can do!
- He's all yours. Don't be gentle.
- On behalf of all the white people who aren't him: gladly
- I'm perfectly fine waiting for the inevitable comment by the wonderful Lucy Lawless calling out the little "Peanut".

Impressing that somehow this makes sense in his head.
- Not really, he has a stereotype of what a Black person acts like, that includes saying the n word.
  He can't comprehend there are some people who are both Black and find the word distasteful. So to him if a Black person won't say it, then they're not Black.
  It's perfectly logical when looking at it from a racists viewpoint. And if you haven't noticed there's a lot of them these days, it's important to understand how they think, so you can do risk management on what they're trying to do.
  Do t just write them off as "evil" and illogical because that makes it harder to fight them. Their logic might not be based on facts or critical thinking but there is a type of logic there. Flawed logic is still logic.
  
  No, this is just agitation. The logic is that posting that on twitter will occupy and upset liberals. Don't give trolls the benefit of sincerity
  Edit: reading that again the last sentence sounds wrong but I think it gets the point across
  
  Oh wow, i was going to write a whole speech about how "blacks are animals" is not how modern racism works. It can't be That is a 17th century view on racism and today's racism is much more about politics, fear, insecurity and sometimes just social ignorance. Surely a public and succesful person like Kevin Sorbo would not be so brain damaged as to think black people are not human.
  Imagine my surprise when I find he literally called black people animals....
  
  Your explanation gave me brain damage. It all makes sense now
  
  Not really, he has a stereotype of what a Black person acts like, that includes saying the n word. He can't comprehend there are some people who are both Black and find the word distasteful. So to him if a Black person won't say it, then they're not Black.
  It's not about if they want to say it or not it is about society accepting if they can say it or not. When a non-black person sings a rap song, they are supposed to omit the n-word. If you are black, you're free to say it when desired.
  This is basically saying. What if Karmala is raping and gets to an n-word. Is she free to say it?
  She is not "African-American" which the word refers to
  African-Americans accepting her into the "black" group based on skin color is essentially reverse racism. "She looks like us so she can be one of us"
  This is coming from a white Mexifinn-American. I don't get accepted as being Mexican because I don't have the skin color, and I don't get accepted as Finnish because I have a Hispanic last name. I don't care because I enjoy being treated as an American. I get treated like I'm "white" though.
  Sad reality is Harris would get treated as "black"
  I don't have a n-word card to give so I can't make the call
- It's dumb but would probably be a pretty funny joke if somebody like Dave Chappelle said it. But hair boy hercules might not have been joking
- The brain damage probably helps.

Never go full Sorbo
- Then he said "It's Sorbin time!" And he went full Sorbo, he just Sorbd all over the place.
  
  Ew, I’ve got Sorbo on my shoe
  
  You have my sworb

This would be a god-tier shitpost if it weren't real
- Sounds like an Onion article. "Kamala Harris claims to be black despite not using the n-word".

As a nerdy kid with longish hair and few male role models, I really, really looked up to this guy. Hercules, Xena, Kull, and then Andromeda.
He fell off my radar for a while but I was pleasantly entertained when I found him in the Mythica series. I'd always thought well of him.
Eventually I heard about God Is Not Dead and looked into the rest of his more right wing work... Its really heartbreaking when people you respected or even idolized as a kid turn out to be so... gross and just... weird.
Now he again pops up on my radar with stupid shit like this. So sad.
- Sucks about Sorbo, but thankfully Lucy Lawless (Xena) is still cool af. If you haven’t seen her in Ash vs Evil Dead, check it out! Good stuff.
  
  That and she often dunks on Sorbo, what a queen.
  
  And My Life is Murder!
- When I was a kid I had a pillow version of Hulk Hogan. Now he's taking pictures and shaking hands with literal nazis.
  "Never meet your heroes" applies to just getting to know who they are from a distance too unfortunately.
  
  Oh man. While I was never a huge fan, I had the Tonka Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior Plus/Pillow things. Is that what you mean?
  Yeah, Hogan is another guy who is just nuts. I think he's always been a piece of shit. I heard he notified management of Ventura's talk of a wrestler's union which killed it before it could gain any traction.
- It really is. Guy had the opportunity to be great, but got sick. Like losing an aging parent to Fox.
- May you not live long enough to see and watch your heroes become villains.

I know I say this a lot but that might be the worst thing Kevin Sorbo has tweeted
- Just say it's the worst thing Kevin Sorbo has tweeted ... so far, then it won't feel so bad when you have to keep saying it
- He's said some other right-wing dog barf but I can't think of any examples off the top of my head.
  
  I thought of the "thousand years of darkness" line but that was chuck Norris, the brand name version of Kevin sorbo.
- You say the N-Word alot?

Wait, what if she can’t and then a white person says it?
Does that make the white person instantly black? What if people cheer? Does that make the person black?
I have so many questions.
- Probably just a matter of time until an orange person says it, so you'll find out the answers to your questions soon enough.
  
  I'm certain an orange man has said it many times
  
  I’m very surprised that hasn’t happened yet.
  I guess got to give old Donny a little bit of credit when it comes to self control, even though it doesn’t feel right.
- Im imagining a white person saying it and their skin instantly changes color
  What word would make a black person turn white
  We're one step from creating a display out of humans shouting obscenities
  
  What word would make a black person turn white
  Wheres that comic with Biden in it?...
  rummages...
  ah!
  
  What word would make a black person turn white
  Michael Jackson has entered the chat
  
  Where do you think Vitiligo comes from?
  
  Cumtown bit. Race-switching Santa, I believe?
- If one white person saying it and others cheering makes them black, I can’t wait to watch the documentary about the self destruction of the KKK.

from the people who brought you transvestigating: introducing blackvestigating.
totally not weird, guys. they're very very normal.

- That is a shitty beard.

Interesting how it takes literal brain damage to come up with a modern conservative's take.

Man, and to think there was a point in my life where I watched that show and thought he was great. What a pile of shit. I hope he slips and falls on a nice warm pile of dogshit.

Is this real?
- Sadly, yes. He is one of the bad ones. Same with Chuck Norris. Conservative Christian tankies.
  
  I knew he was bad but this is like you know, particularly bad
  
  That's called a fascist, like for real bro.
  
  They are not lefties what are you even talking about. They're both white conservative christofascists.
  I'm not sure if you're just using tankie as a general pejorative or what but it specifically means authoritarian left.
  
  Out of the loop - what did Chuck Norris do?
- Sorbo has been a reactionary shit going back to his early career, but he didn't really let the freak flag fly until he stopped landing roles in the mid-'00s. He's got a whole line of really cringey anti-Atheism movies (check out the "God's Not Dead" series trails) and he's been dipping his toe into the MAGA sphere since Trump took office.
  Dude's totally high on his own supply.
  
  Dipping his toe? This man submerged himself so far he's basically maga baptized.
  
  Yep, he ruined Andromeda with his weird fascist bullshit, is why the show goes from egalitarian to the Commonwealth being aggressive fascists.
  
  You're totally right but we're keeping the freak flag. He can have the bleak flag.

what a weird thing to say.
- All my heroes growing up are assholes now. "Never meet your heroes" fr fr
  
  Lucy Lawless is still awesome

DISAPPOINTED!
- My disappointment stems from the fact that this joke has become associated with Hercules when it originated with A Fish Called Wanda, a much better piece of entertainment.
  
  its because A Fish Called Wanda is full of great bits. This guy has one and only one great moment. So its remembered as such.
  *"dont call me stupid" is what I always remember getting me to laugh the most from AFCW
- Now by him? Did you not watch his God's Not Dead movie? He plays an asshole atheist professor that makes his students write papers on why God is dead. Very funny, but it tries to be serious.

- Was he an asshole before the strokes? I think fetterman is an interesting data point on the relationship between brain damage and politics.
- Karma punches.

I wonder what the last president to publicly say the nword was. Like, not Obama alone in the oval office giggling to himself, but a president casually dropping it while doing official president things like a speech or meeting.
Edit: so a quick Google told me Obama used it on a podcast once (while president), so I guess the boring answer is indeed Obama
- I guarantee FDR did at some point.
  
  I just assumed like all of them before the fifties did. Which brings me to another interesting question, who was the first president,if there ever was one, to never use it, not even to himself?

Let's say she's hypothetically not black...
Nothing changes at all. She's still a better candidate. She's not a criminal and she could lie 100 times a day and still be well below Trumps lie quota
Trump is so unbelievably bad I don't think the right wing realises the extent they would need to go to, to discredit her to make Trump seem better.
Stupid small jabs like this change nothing. They could win if they dumped Trump. But they won't...
Trump identifies as a successful businessman which is a bigger lie. Successful criminal yeah
That being said, she's obviously black. Maybe he should stick to lies which aren't visually obvious (like claim she's stupid, which isn't true either)
- But if she is black, they can call her a DEI candidate. And if she's not black, they can call her a liar. Both insults are wrong, but they need to have a consistent message. So that's probably why they're so obsessed with race. That and they're racist.
  
  It's possible that staring at Trump's orange complexion all day has messed up the white balance in their eyes too.
  It's hilarious that their first thought though is that they should use abuse to test their race. That's definitely normal behavior..
  I'm white, but I'm not walking around calling people "crackers". And, I have black mates who I have NEVER heard say the N-word. In fact, thinking about it, the black people I know barely swear at all
  
  Consistent thinking is definitely not in their weird wheel house
  
  Lol it just occurred to me that maybe they are trying to say she isn't black because they don't understand what the opposite of racism is and think that it must mean worship of the races they hate.
- I would disagree with your statement they would win if they dump Trump, trump is the only way they win, the whole machine is built around him. Without him they fall flat. With him, they have a chance of winning, and still could, we can't pretend like that's not the case unless we want to repeat 2016
  
  I'm no longer sure actually. A lot of them are likely just voting right wing..
  It's hard to know though. Wasn't Tim Walz and kamala polling badly too in comparison to the other presidential options? Now they're both rockstars, and there was a huge swing that happened the moment Biden was replaced
  Sorry, I didn't neccessarily mean the right wing would win, simply that I suspect another candidate for the right wing could possibly produce a swing again.
  Their policies still suck, but he doesn't have many people defending him

Serious question. Did Kevin have some sort of brain damaging event or is he just this stupid. I know like everyone thought Busey was just crazy but then it turned out he had a motorcycle accident that fucked him up.
- He's gone on record as claiming to have had several strokes during the filming of Hercules. I'm not sure if there's been independent verification.
- I know like everyone thought Busey was just crazy but then it turned out he had a motorcycle accident that fucked him up.
  Por que no los dos
  
  I think the mountains of coke had an effect too.
- Yes, brain aneurysm in the 90s.
- I think he had a stroke or strokes at some point during Hercules

Slorpo you say it and see how people react... What's right wingers obsession with slurs anyways?
- Negatively labeling outsiders is key to the overall program and being offensive is a sport since it evokes an emotional reaction. Slurs cover those bases.

Why does Kevin Sorbo rail against being woke and yet is too politically correct to say the N-word?
- Because he wants to stir trouble, not get his ass kicked

i for one am thankful that kevin sorbo exists, to provide someone for lucy lawless to eviscerate
- It's some great ebeef

Honestly there are layers to this stupidity about Kamala's race. For anyone who thinks about it for even a moment, even if she's doing what they say she is, it reflects poorly only on them, not her.
Copy/pasting a prior response to save myself some typing:
EVEN IF their accusations were true, the conditions encouraging someone to hide their race weren’t created by Kamala Harris. They were created by racist bigots. And racist bigots these days tend to gravitate towards one party more than the other. The very clear defense would be "I had to hide my race so that bigots like you would judge me for my accomplishments, not my skin tone." (even though folks like that wouldn't consider Indian to be much of an upgrade)
Literally no one who isn't a bigot cares about this. They are outing themselves and nothing more.

He’s such a washed up loser. Xena was the better show.

Let’s hear you say “intelligent” out loud and let listeners decide for themselves, Sorbo.
- disapointing.gif

This will come as a shock for someone who obviously sees all black people as the same, but you do know that there are plenty of blacks who have issues with the word being used in any context, right?
- no, no he doesn't.

Idk who this is, but kind of funny on a 4chan edge lord level. I'm guessing context is important here and I'm missing it
- He's an actor whose biggest role was playing Hercules on a low-budget show on a third-tier network in the 90s. Now, as far as I know, he's only getting work in shitty evangelical movies.
- Clearly he's a racist, not much more you need to know.
- There's no context, he just said it out of the blue
- He really does post shit like a 16 year old does anonymous.

Kamala Harris: "Ok, Kev. You're a nincompoop. That's the N-word you meant, right?"
- "Nobody" would hurt him more.

I've never liked Hercules, but man, this guy is ruining Andromeda for me.
- Hercules was kinda fun, but there's a reason ... well, several reasons, Xena outshined it spectacularly, both in ratings at the time and in cultural impact years and decades later.
  and Lucy Lawless outshines him as a person even today, like the sun outshines a broken flashlight.
  
  Yeah, Xena was the best thing about Hercules by far.
- I mean, he also ruined Andromeda for me, during the run of Andromeda.
  If you notice a sudden shift after season 2, that's because Kevin got the rights and changed the show to be more episodic, and more about his character. It's why the actors of the other main crew start to drop off.
  
  The show also became mainly about his love interests, who were always women young enough to be his daughter. It was creepy.
- Fun fact: The guy who played Daniel Jackson on SG1 is married to the women who played Andromeda on Andromeda, but he a kid with the woman who played Sha're in the first season of SG1.

I hope they continue on this crusade to prove she isn't black, this will convince no one new to vote for them. Take all the time in the world to obsess over it.
Secondly, it hinges on the racist notion that black voters will vote for her simply because she is black, which is not true.
Its foundation is wrong and its impact is negligible, please republicans, stay on this thread.

This man is just a fountain of bad takes.

Kevin Sorbo is only slightly less disappointing than JK Rowling and Graham Linehan. It boggles my mind that there are so many of my childhood idles who decide that making other people feel bad is the hill that they want to die on.
- Thank god we still got Lucy Lawless

That's whitesplaining. (Because Kevin Sorbo is, in fact, white.)

They are all just really really mad there’s a word they are not allowed to use without consequences.

There is a 1:1 correlation between being deeply concerned about how black Kamala Harris is and thinking that calling someone a racist is just as bad as saying the N-word.

That guy is a perpetual Not the Onion post

He looks and acts like the guy that would call black people the N-word with hard R.

Sorbo needs to hire a better team to run his Twitter account.
The current team is making him look like a fucking idiot.
- Well, it's a one man team, so it's a lot of work cranking out stupidity of this level

How's he gonna tell someone to say a word he won't say?
And does saying a word make you black? I heard plenty of white people say it. Are they all black now?
- What is crazy is that there are black people that don't say the N word. By this logic, does that make them white?

Nazi. There I said it…

I honestly thought this was a bad joke or sarcasm. The fact that it's not is absolutely nuts.

Sorbo sounds like he’s got brainworms like his menacing fellow cock holster RFK Jr.

Ok, so who is this weird nobody anyway?
- Millennials know him from the Hercules TV show. He's irrelevant tbh.
  
  Millennials of culture will also remember him from the TV show Andromeda
- He's mainly known for this gif:
  Fun fact: the word disappointed was a stage direction for him, he took it as a line which led to this great scene. He's a great actor if you couldn't tell
- He started out like this
  https://youtu.be/J2UhXgOT1sk?si=ybradRRtcdW3AMeG
  And now he's this
  https://youtu.be/j2KDj7qxnds?si=m13q6lBRa5Epgq-b

What the fuck

He must be addressing his friends. Decent people aren't questioning her racial identity.

I thought it was satire and laughed. Its apparently not somehow.

Jerk-ules needs to go back under his rock.

To me it seems like statements like this are just meant to provoke a reaction. There really are people who get their jollies from arguing, regardless what the argument is about or which side of it they’re taking.
They’re also known to guard bridges and demand tribute from travelers.
Also, I think people who love upsetting others suck.
- I honestly think he believes what he's saying. He's gone down that like deep religion rabbit hole thing and he's enjoying being a total jerk to people in the process.