Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Can we talk about this, uh,
Speaker 1: this Lizzo thing for a second. Did you did you
Speaker 1: see what happened with Lizzo? So for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't know, Lizzo has a new song out girls. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really fun song. It's really populates on all the
Speaker 1: charts and everything. And in in the song, Lizzo has
Speaker 1: one of her lyrics where she says spas like we're
Speaker 1: gonna spas out, you know, which Americans commonly know as
Speaker 1: means like go crazy, have fun, throw party or whatever
Speaker 1: you can use in like multiple different ways fun ways. Um.
Speaker 1: What was interesting was that that somebody tweeted to Lizzo
Speaker 1: and they said to her, Hey, just so you know, um,
Speaker 1: spas is a word that is used specifically, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a derogatory term used to describe people who have disabilities,
Speaker 1: and they use their comedy in like the UK and Australia,
Speaker 1: you know. And they were like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: this is you know how I how I feel about this.
Speaker 1: And and then Lizzo, which is really gracious, Lizzo has
Speaker 1: has changed the lyric of the song. So she went
Speaker 1: back changed the lyric and she was like, Hey, that
Speaker 1: didn't mean to do that, so I'll change the lyric.
Speaker 1: Very gracious of her, you know. Yeah, But what was
Speaker 1: weird is that the story didn't end there. That's the
Speaker 1: weird thing. What happened since then is people have been
Speaker 1: piling on Lizzo, shifting on her from the highest heights,
Speaker 1: like people being like, I'm still disappointed in you, Lizzo.
Speaker 1: This was disgusting from you, and I'm You've lost a
Speaker 1: fan and I don't care that you have changed it.
Speaker 1: What matters is you said it in the first place,
Speaker 1: and you know, for you to use a blest language
Speaker 1: to offend somebody, you hurt people's feeling. And I was like, okay, Like, look,
Speaker 1: can we just can we just pause for a second.
Speaker 1: I know people on the internet like to engage in
Speaker 1: conversations that aren't discussions but really are just like mobs
Speaker 1: that pile on somebody for not knowing everything about everywhere
Speaker 1: all at once. But can we can we acknowledge that
Speaker 1: Lizzo basically exactly what society has been asking people to do?
Speaker 1: All right? She stepped in, she said, oh, this is
Speaker 1: not what I intended, and so I'm going to change
Speaker 1: this for you, which is extremely gracious. I will change
Speaker 1: it for you, not for me, but for you, because
Speaker 1: black people in America have been using spars completely innocuously
Speaker 1: as a different word. And then I understand that in
Speaker 1: another country they use another word and it means something else.
Speaker 1: Someone finds it defensive. But that happens all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, in the UK they use fag for cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Good luck getting used to that. When you're there, he's
Speaker 1: walk around people like, oh, can I bum the fag?
Speaker 1: And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? What's
Speaker 1: happening here? What's happening here? All right? But that's they're like, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what we mean. And you understand that.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're living in a world where people
Speaker 1: have gotten so used to to, you know, parading as
Speaker 1: the most virtuous or as as the as the you know,
Speaker 1: just like the most righteous person, that they've gone to
Speaker 1: a point where they make it seem like language has
Speaker 1: no nuance, language has no context, which is even more important.
Speaker 1: And then they want to imply that there is some
Speaker 1: sort of intention on people, even when there isn't. Right
Speaker 1: of all the people, you can come for all the
Speaker 1: people Lizzo is one of the most inclusive, just like
Speaker 1: a like aware, just like loving. She's always trying to
Speaker 1: bring people into the conversation in her music videos, in
Speaker 1: her music, in her life. You're gonna ship on her
Speaker 1: for making not even a mistake. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't even call that a mistake. It's just not knowing
Speaker 1: how everyone uses every word in every country all the time.
Speaker 1: I don't call that a mistake. You know, in South Africa,
Speaker 1: we have we have a word that we say for
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. It's really simple. We say asan
Speaker 1: and it's just basically means like it's like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: thing you weren't wrong, I wasn't wrong. It's not like
Speaker 1: it's like something happened that wasn't great, but nobody's almost
Speaker 1: like to blame for the thing, and so you can
Speaker 1: have a conversation about it. I don't know what happened do.
Speaker 1: We no longer live in the world where someone can say, hey,
Speaker 1: actually you know where I'm from. This means that, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Now that I do, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it because I'm not trying to do that.
Speaker 1: Lizzo can't get in a time machine you know people
Speaker 1: act shouldn't have said it in the first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she said it and she changed it. Now you what
Speaker 1: do you wanted to do? Was I wanted what to
Speaker 1: go back in time and then change her knowledge of
Speaker 1: what do you want her to do? Why are you
Speaker 1: still piling in? And what was interesting is I find
Speaker 1: I find it so interesting how you have these circles
Speaker 1: of people who claimed to be woke or claimed to
Speaker 1: be whatever, but then they used this as an opportunity
Speaker 1: to pile on Lizzo. Now you know. Now they come
Speaker 1: in there and then they're just like, oh yeah as
Speaker 1: a fat woman, Oh yeah, how would you like it
Speaker 1: if I said you're a fat n word? Work? Then
Speaker 1: I'm like, whe where's this coming from? So you're using
Speaker 1: that as an opportunity to just let your massogeurn noir out.
Speaker 1: That's what you're doing. You've seen an opportunity for you
Speaker 1: to be shitty to this this black woman, and now
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, I can get her and be like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm doing that to defend the disabled community. No you're not.
Speaker 1: You know you know what I mean. Don't don't bring
Speaker 1: it up. You can just say to Lizzo, hey, this
Speaker 1: was this, and you should be careful and that's it,
Speaker 1: but don't use it as an opportunity for your shiftiness
Speaker 1: and to try and cloud it in something else. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like this weird pylon pylon, pylon pylon thing that happens.
Speaker 1: Words and the context matter. I really don't think it's
Speaker 1: healthy for us to be living in a world where
Speaker 1: people can say or do a thing that they don't
Speaker 1: know is a bad thing, and then we treat them
Speaker 1: as if they didn't know that it is a bad thing.
Speaker 1: You know, the words the change all over the world,
Speaker 1: and I'm not getting blankets. I know something someone's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, whoa you? So what are you saying, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I can shay the N word, and and because I
Speaker 1: didn't know, they would never meant anything else, no one
Speaker 1: to be used it another way. You know. It's like
Speaker 1: back in the day, there was like some country where
Speaker 1: they're like, nigger is a warm fire that you can
Speaker 1: say by night to warm your hands, Come and join
Speaker 1: me by the nigger family. That's not a thing. So
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that the context of words matters. The
Speaker 1: nuance matters. If you're gonna live in a world where
Speaker 1: people chew you up for trying and chew you up
Speaker 1: for apologizing and being accountable, even when, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Lizzle might be like I made a mistake. I don't
Speaker 1: think she did. But I think what she did on
Speaker 1: top of that was really gracious. She said, you know
Speaker 1: what I you know, she came out and said, I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to do this, but I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and make your life a little better. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and and you know, put a bit of bomb on this,
Speaker 1: on this hurt that you have. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Now the people are still go on a pilot.
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