Owen Benjamin Me Too joke on Tucker Carlson
by Ruth W: Pop Trends
The mechanics of how outrage spreads in today's culture become clear through this incident. Owen Benjamin explained that his joke touching on the Me Too topic resulted in him being cast as the foolish man who confused the hashtag MeToo with a simple pound sign. People in the audience reacted by laughing at what he said. Supporters of the movement labeled him mocks victims. His own take was that he was ridiculing the wizard, and the
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You want the joke was, so the me too movement comes out and I do a joke with dramatic irony where I'm like, yeah, so I'm in LA and I go, there's one of these parades and I'm like, ladies, you might want to think of a different slogan. And it's like, well, what do you mean? And so I do this long drawn out thing and I'm like, pound me too. And so the whole joke is that I think it's a pound sign and the joke's on me. Like I'm the dumb guy. Right. Yeah. So they said that I was mocking victims and I'm like, no, no, they're laughing because this me too thing is like using them for their agenda. Exactly. Like I'm making fun of the wizard. And the wizards are the ones that get mad. Like the people that hate conspiracy theorists are conspirators. Right? It's so simple. It's like, man. I'm sorry. I just have to, I just, cause I don't know. People watch these on double speed. I just want to, I want to repeat what you said. Cause it's so worth the people who hate conspiracy theories are the conspirators. Yes. That is so good. It's so true. Why else would you hate conspiracy theories? It's like, man, this conspiracy theorist. I'm like, you wouldn't happen to be currently doing a conspiracy, would you?
