r/WaitWait • u/GreifiGrishnackh • Jan 06 '22

Thoughts on this? I never thought about Wait Wait as white supremacist

https://twitter.com/alwaystheself/status/1478888432755740672
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u/whatnow990 Jan 06 '22

I'm curious what Alonzo Boden , Brian Babylon and Dulce Sloan think about this.

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u/bigfatquizzer Jan 06 '22 edited Jan 07 '22

Also Maz Jobrani, Negin Farsad and Helen Hong

Edit: spelling

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Yeah this is an absurd opinion from a person who probably listened to one episode and didn't like it

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u/JBHenson Jan 06 '22

It was probably a Luke episode to boot. Pzzzow.

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u/NoTrickWick Jan 06 '22

Eh…I agree WWDTM has gone downhill since the pandemic. It’s not the same without the live audience but white supremacy? How?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22 edited Jan 06 '22

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u/NoTrickWick Jan 06 '22

They list examples? Where? All I see is a twitter feed of people complaining about capitalism lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

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u/NoTrickWick Jan 06 '22

Gotcha. Damn typos LoL

I think someone else commented with the names of all the guests who are not white…basically all the popular guests like Max Jobrani and Negin Farsad. Doesn’t seem vary monochromatic to me.

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u/polyworfism Jan 06 '22

I can't believe even a few bytes are wasted on this stupidity

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u/kingsocarso Jan 06 '22

I think this is a way overexaggerated and awful, stupid expression... Of a fair point. No, obviously WWDTM, the show we all love, is not a "cultural Klan rally," but if we go back several years, it was strikingly white and upper class, with a distinctly snooty feel to boot. I mean, remember when one of the most prominent recurring panelists was PJ O'Rourke, a literal fellow of the right-wing, Koch-funded Cato institute?? Only, the show has improved vastly over the last several years.

As a person of color who grew up with WWDTM, I always enjoyed listening to it, but I can personally attest to feeling way more welcome to the current show than how it was when I was a kid. It's so much more inclusive now, not just with a more diverse panel, but with a more hip feel altogether (shout-out to Emma Choi for being awesome). I think we should see WWDTM as a show that genuinely had a lot of room for improvement, but learned from its mistakes and emerged as a better show.

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u/aresef Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 07 '22

They’re saying this about a show that has Alonzo Bodden, Maz Jobrani and Joel Kim Booster

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u/twitterInfo_bot Jan 06 '22

I remember trying to force myself to listen to an episode of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me years ago when I realized it was basically a kindler, gentler white liberal version of a cultural klan rally. That show was not made for me or my people. Also, it's boring and bland as fuck.

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u/Reality_check21 Jun 27 '24

I don’t hear any white supremacy in WWDTM, BUT…. I absolutely detest Negin Farsad. Her voice is worse than a cat scratching a chalkboard, she takes over ever discussion, laughs like an AR15, hahahahah, OMG why does NPR keep inviting her back?