Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes
Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes - LGBTQ Nation
Honestly I think it's just because people are mean and want someone to bully and trans people aren't quite as protected by society as other marginalized groups yet so they're the easiest target. Plus probably from some people it's fear that if other people are allowed to be who they are then they themselves might realize they aren't the perfect little cis straight christian they want to be seen as.
My first thought in situations like this is that maybe he secretly wishes he were a she. It's true just often enough that I think it's worth considering as an option.
And honestly, I don't care if it's true or not. If, whenever a public figure publicly tries to humiliate or demonize some minority group, public discourse immediately starts talking about whether said public figure secretly is, or wants to be, a member of said minority group, then it serves as a deterrent for others wanting to humiliate or demonize minority groups.
A) You're in the closet and don't want people to know? Then don't ridicule people who came out of the closet.
B) Oh, you're not in the closet and don't want people to think you are? What a coincidence. Also, don't ridicule people who came out of the closet.
I can understand if older people are confused by trans issues. That seems fair. I mean, just a few decades ago, people hardly even mentioned them unless they were making a joke.
When it comes to hate, though, I’m with you. At the end of the day, these are still PEOPLE we’re talking about. If they’re doing something you don’t approve of, then just don’t do it yourself. It doesn’t get any easier than that. No hatred required.
Seriously. Like, okay, you think that the whole transgender thing is a fad, or "attention-seeking," or any other nonsense. Everybody is entitled to opinions, even stupid ones. I guarantee I have some stupid opinions, myself, about things that have no relevance to me.
But feeling the need to express those opinions, and feeling so strongly about it, and wanting to make legislation for it, and pretending you give two shits about girls' and womens' sports when 5 years ago you were talking shit about the WNBA because they were a joke to you, when you will knowingly interact with a trans person once or twice in a year, maybe, in your little podunk town, and since you are talking to them you won't have an opportunity to use a pronoun for them... well there's obviously something else at work here.
It makes it clear it's just an excuse to hate, because trans people don't affect them in the slightest.
It's a wedge issue. That's all that matters to them.
First, they don't give a fuck about those people.
Second, intentional vagueness that can be weaponized. Be as heinous as humanly possible to keep the base talking about it.
Third, exaggerate issues that moderates care about like bathrooms, sports, and regretted transitions.
Fourth, ideally for them, the left will talk about all the heinous shit and not address the actual discussions.
Because they need a group to attack, used to be women and black people, then gays and now trans folks.
Anti-vaxx jokes at a hospital fundraiser. That's one of the stupider moves I've seen today.
Hiring him was the dumb move considering that it's known he's a reich-wing fuckwit
Rob doesn't seem to be the smartest of people.
Dude thought he was writing material for a roast or what?
Rob Schneider. The SNL guy that had one character, then moved on to being remembered as "The Stapler" on South Park.
What an inspiration.
Edit. Now that I think about it, Schneider is actually being a true comedian through and through here. The golden rule is to always punch up, and Schneider is attempting to do just that.
I started Googling "Rob Schneider" and Google autocompleted "herp de derp" after that.
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I mean, by many measures Alex Jones is more accomplished than me, but I'm very happy to be where I am instead of being Alex Jones.
Being really good at being a shithead is not the win you think it is.
The guy that's been riding Adam Sandler's coattails for 34 years? Oh yeah, he's super accomplished.
I thought you were referring to how much he has to punch up, cuz he's such a a scumbag(expanding on my joke). But looking at your account history... Wtf why are you even bothering?
Not if he's an anti vaxxer and anti-trans.
So was Jimmy Saville. What's your point?
I wouldn't want his list of accomplishments. And I say that as someone who didn't end up a major success at standup. If I had to be hateful to be successful, I wouldn't take that bargain.
I got blocked by him on Twitter (in 2012!) for mocking his whackjob antivax views. He was espousing shit headed antivax nonsense long before it was fashionable.
Antivax goes back at least a decade before your 2012 blocking. My kid was born in 2001 and the whole vaccines cause autism thing was already big. In fact, I'd suggest it was nearly mainstream at the time.
When the study that suggested the correlation with autism got thoroughly debunked, nay, proven willfully fraudulent, it fizzled out a little bit, but has still stuck around like a raging case of herpes to this day.
Yes I know. I've was there for it too mocking these dinguses. But it only became mainstream with COVID when it sort of metastasized and merged with a bunch of other deranged conspiracy nonsense via MAGA & QAnon.
Think Andrew Wakefield was before that. I wanna say... 2006? 2008? 2020 is just when it started killing even more people
I hope you are happy to have that honor. I would be.
I certainly am. I also got blocked by Kirsty Alley, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Avenatti for criticizing their cult, grift & grift respectively. I'm sure there are a few others I don't know about.
At first I was sad reading that an actor I liked turned out to be a bigot, but then I realized I was confusing this dipshit with Roy Scheider and felt better.
Roy Scheider is, unfortunately, no longer with us. Rob Schneider is, unfortunately, still with us.
Calling him an "actor" is incredibly generous.
Hey, don't forget smoking lamp!
I'm sorry, was that expensive piece?
You should never throw a bong, kid. Ever.
Was that expensive piece?
dude isn't even funny in the first place. he can't do a Dave Chappell. Pander to the bigoted masses with a modicum of talent. Now if Dave Chappell wasn't a pos he could easily be the funniest man in comedy instead of a fringe washup but here we are. Used to love them both for their niech humor but lets be honest Rob was only ever funny cause he was proped up by mid Adam Sandler scripts.
I went to see Rob Schneider perform comedy round 2015. Tickets were free for a Saturday night. It was at 80% capacity, which is unusual since it's always sold out.
He was pretty rough and attempted to be edgy. He already had gay jokes and there was polite laughter, but nothing compared to the professional comedians who opened for him.
Honestly I thought he'd quit after a few years.
blame adam sandler.
Hes been clinging to Adam Sandlers career and been artificially buoyed by it for over a decade.
Why is Dave chappell is a POS? Did he do something awful recently?
I haven't watch anything from him since forever because I don't find his jokes funny, it's mostly him complaining or trash talk other people.
His shows are pretty much him making fun of trans people and whining bc people call him on his shit for doing nothing but making fun of trans people.
Here's some excepts from The Closer in 2022. I watched this begrudgingly to prove to a buddy of mine that he was, in fact, being transphobic (said buddy is no longer buddy), and I haven't watched anything of his shit since but it's probably just him whining even more now:
He insults transgenders in routines and bitches about people calling him out for it. He also throws out stupid stereotypes about various other groups but they aren't generally direct insults like with trans people. He tops it off with complaining about cancel culture cause apparently he can insult and call other groups out for just living their life, but if somebody calls him out on that crap it's bad.
Nice, you got down voted for asking a question
Sucking up to Elmo comes to mind.
Oh, look, another old comedian jumps on the bigot bandwagon. It's an incredibly transparent trend now for when they can't write the same material that got them there in the first place, or when they are no longer working with the person that wrote their material for them.
Take a few shots at trans people, purely for publicity, then use that sudden boost from the circle jerking media to secure yourself a Netflix special, where you can talk about how you've been cancelled for an hour and a half for a big payout.
It's just a marketing ploy for using peoples own outrage against them.
He's been a conservative hack for a while (and he's been a hack for his entire career), he just hid it better than, say, Victoria Jackson or something. This is him feeling too comfortable. I'm glad this crowd didn't let him stay comfortable.
Rob Schneider peaked literally last century with Deuce Bigalow. As if that were not bad enough...
You mean last millennium?
Rob Schneider is... The Bigot! Rated PG-13
A Bigoted C list celebrity riding on the coat tails of his friends pees on the grave of a child killed by a lynch mob at midnight on a full moon while wearing black face and is stuck by lightning while making eye contact with his 15 year old mtf trans athlete niece he kidnapped to sell to child sex trafficers and they Freaky Friday switch bodies! Will The Bigot learn life's not so easy or trendy after Republican elective officals publicly attack him and he recieves dozens of credible death threats, and thousands of rape threats? Will he discover trans people just want to exist, and culture shock isn't a great reason to want to harm people you don't even know? Find out this summer, in THE BIGOT starting Rob Schneider and that guy from King of Queens, with a cameo appearance from Adam Sandler as a man in a 30min uninterrupted Pringles Comercial in the middle of the film for no reason, this summer at limited release locations in exclusively rural areas four to five hours away from you!
What's up with all these washed up celebrities coming back to the spotlight just to make an ass of themselves?
Not even necessarily more visibility, go back 20 years and this kind of stuff was popular. Go back another 5 years and anti-gay humour was also still popular. It wasn't even considered anti-gay because anti-gay was the default option, so it would have just been called "gay jokes".
Though it makes me wonder what is considered normal today that will be seen as problematic in a decade and popularly opposed in two.
He's been on this tip for a long while, supporting Ron Paul and being anti-vax. Last Week Tonight did an episode on Vaccines, and he shows up in a no longer valid comparison of RFK Jr on the left, Alex Jones wherever he fits in, and even this guy. I remember him also calling for Ron Paul 2012, but doesn't seem to be from this one, so hopefully I'm remembering that right.
Still, he's been libertarian and antivax for a long time, and those communities have been heavily aimed at by fascists for recruitment.
"You think you're so cool cuz you pee with your penis!" - Rob Schneider responding to trans audience members who boo him
If this means that he finally fades into obscurity and we never have to hear from him again, maybe it’s for the greater good.
I don't really understand these dipshits. The older I get the more tolerant of others outlook on life I get. I might not agree but I don't have to trash them to make myself feel better. I certainly don't begrudge them their own preferences. Perhaps one reason for this is that I have become asexual. Or chaste to use a really old term for not interested.
I don't know that asexual is really the same as chaste, because chaste implies you're using some sort of willpower to avoid sex rather than just not wanting to have sex. Either, in my opinion, is a fine way to live your life, but they're not really the same. I wouldn't say that all nuns are asexual, but all nuns are supposed to be chaste.
In the past terms like 'chaste' 'innocent' and the like, were used to describe people who seemed to naturally not be interested in sexual things rather than someone who was restraining themselves. Sexual repression really wasn't a concept until very recently, and in the past people would day Zealous, or similar terms for someone more actively fighting against their natural desires.
Its the closest thing you can come up with from the past. I think they are the same. Especially in this world. You don't have to expend any will in this world to be chaste or asexual. Its not like anyone you would want is going to come chasing you.
IMHO your sexuality isn't driving your tolerance.
You're just growing as a person, continuously. Many people stop growing, settling into rigid ideals and reacting with hostility to pressure against those ideals.
All these people seem to be in decline as well. I suspect their egos can't handle it and they resort to weird distorted conservatism so they can blame others for their fall from grace.
I refer to myself as kinda sexual, I guess the kids are calling it graysexual these days, I never thought to use "chaste", but that's a good descriptor. I used to always say that I'm just a prude, lol
Oh to be sure I find women attractive and I could see myself under certain circumstances being in a relationship again but I'm fine just like I am. I wouldn't ever consider it for the sake of just having sex. It would have to be with someone who accepts me flaws and all and I of course would have to feel the same about them. Not likely where I live in the world today.
I'll never forgive Adam Sandler for keeping Rob Schneider vaguely relevant by letting him ride his coattails for the last 30 years. "Makin' coppppieeesss" stfu you bigoted hack.
Weird coming from a guy who basically played a transgender person in the Hot Chick and also is a stapler.
Imagine starring in a movie where your character is desperately trying to explain to loved ones that they're trapped in the wrong body and don't understand how to navigate this gender that they find themselves in and then come out in the other side being transphobic. Like, he's so media illiterate that he doesn't empathize with his own characters. So then it was just hateful jokes the whole time, I guess. Dude stopped maturing at like 15.
He was at his best as a carrot.
Lmao did they have no idea who he was when they booked him? Did someone hire him as a joke? I don't get why he was even there.
There are a quite a lot of nursing and medical admin staff in healthcare who are rabidly antivax. At least in America, so I assume it's at least partially true in Canada to. I wonder if that had something to do with this clearly terrible pairing of organization and washed-up clown 'comedian'.
Hire Rob Schneider to do his stand up act. Rob Schneider does his stand up act.
Schneider came out as a clown in 2012.
I didn't even need to know he is a bigot to know he sucks, because he has sucked for a long, long, looooooong time.
LOL it's hilarious that rob fucking schneider is the only "celebrity" they can get to trumpet their bullshit
i was a tween when he was the "comic relief" in the stallone dredd movie, and rob fucking schneider was the most cringe thing i remember about that shit. and no, nothing else he did was ever funny
He's also been wealthy and famous for a solid two decades, he may be on the C list, but he hasn't had to worry about money in decades, and he had been living the the Newport culture of rich LA assholes who do a lot of dumb shit because they think being rich means they're also smart, like being anti-vax, thinking PETA is an innocuous animal rights charity, thinking cancer is an dietary issue, having $10k ''purebred'' dogs makes you an animal lover, and that cooking your own food is a really creative hobby.
The first rule of comedy is, "Know your audience."
It’s clear he did this for some other reason. I’m assuming he is just starved for attention.
Preaches hate. Receives hate.
Washed up loser.
I am curious what anti-vaxx routine he thought was appropriate for a medical event
Rob . . . Robbyyyyyy . . . The Robster . . . The Robaroonie . . . cracking the bad jokes . . . coasting on what's left of his SNL cred.
If yall haven’t watched The Schneidecker Paradox yet, you should.
that was brilliant, thank you
Agreed. Check it out.
Yeah he really turned into a carrot
Carrot Bottom
no mention of what the jokes were at all
Rob Schneider is my pick for second cast member of Home Alone 2 to be convicted of a felony.
guy who looks like a stupid dick is actually a stupid dick. happens every once in a while.
“You can do it!” 🙃
Please, give an example of an unbiased news org. They don't exist. This one just wears its bias on its sleeve.
Edit: putting this here so people will stop going off.
I was trying to respond to this nutcase's response. I'm saying that bias is fine. But at least this one says what it's for.
.lgbtqnation just the best news site nobody could ever think they could be biased in any way.
But I guess Lemmy fucked it. So sure, down vote.
And what do you think the truth here is? Do you think that the Regina Leader-Post, the local newspaper they got the information from also wears its bias on its sleeve? How about the foundation whose public apology they printed? Is that fake news?
AP news, agrigated articles are difficult to all fudge in the same direction. Is there bias in seperate articles? To some degree it's going to happen, does every single article have heavy bias in exactly one direction? Nope.
BBC, Reuters, NPR, and a few other services generally avoid heavy bias by using similar methods of agrigated content from multiple contributers that aren't all working in a single location, for one entity, with the same editor, working for the same owners. There's much less bias found across their platforms, and what's there in terms of bias isn't all to one particular US political party.
I don't know what you are arguing. You can have a bias towards reality. Some have a bias towards centrism, even when one side has lost its mind. My original comment was to an idiot claiming that lgbtq wasn't news because it has a bias.
My point was that everything has a bias in some way, even a bias towards truth or whatever. It's still a bias. Lgbtq nation simply tells you what the bias is explicitly. Which is good. I'd rather they be upfront so I can find news not filled with right wing anti gay screed.
How dare a comedian make a joke.... You guys are just lame now.
"joke"
If the audience is booing the "comedian", they must not be funny.
Are you kidding? It's a comedian's job to read the room and tell when their set isn't landing for shit and change tactics on the fly. Maybe he's got his own shit niche but he should learn the basics of tact if he wants gigs.
It's not the audience's fault when a comedian bombs. It's his own damn fool self.
If he was telling a bunch of N-- jokes, would you similarly come to his defense?
Sure, if they were done in a way that was actually funny to a reasonable person. If statements are just insults then they were never jokes, the problem is that you guys dont even allow people to make fun of particular groups, you start clutching your pearls and gasping. You guys went from the cool guy in the 90s to being super lame.
Yeah, I think Schneider is a dipshit and a bigot, but this one is on the organizers. Were they expecting "makin' copieees" and shit?
Is this what happens when you choose from "entertainers" list by sorting by "price - low to high"? Is this really a surprise when you shop from the clearance rack?
Were these organizers looking at the list and saying "Hmm, Carrot Top is a bit too 'high brow' for our engagement. Who else do we have?"
I wonder if this was a case of someone seeing a "big name" but being clueless about his history and thinking, "I recognize his name, must mean he's popular." Then they hired him without vetting because he had a recognizable name and they believed he was therefore popular and "cool". I mean, I know who Rob Schneider is because I've heard his name get thrown around a lot, but I had no idea he was a bigoted piece of shit because I've never (knowingly) watched any of his movies, nor do I keep up with celebrity gossip.
That said, it's really stupid to hire people without vetting them in this day and age because people have become so insane and brainless that you have no clue what they might say when they get up on stage; but 10 years ago I could see you being able to get away with not vetting celebrities. As such, the person/people who approved him might have been +10 years out of touch and/or lazy.
Trust me when I say that since this was in Saskatchewan, it's likely nobody checked because it never even crossed their minds that they should.
Yeah to be fair I love a lot of movies he’s in and reading about this makes me so disappointed. I’m sure there’s other actors and celebrities that I would also be disappointed about too.
Don’t sleep, Schneider is also:
Noooo, I genuinely had no idea he was a pos. Man that sucks I liked his shitty movies and now I can't watch them for a nostalgic feel any more :( I am legit bummed.