We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
Negin FarsadThanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hatingโyou know, where theyโre in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. Itโs just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. Thereโs not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebookโs made โem lazy.
Negin FarsadThere's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
Negin FarsadThe fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.
Negin FarsadI one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.
Negin FarsadI knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that if you turn the dial in one direction, a Muslim is a Jew is an East Asian person is a Native American and so on. I feel very much that all of these struggles are kind of the same and - Hillary Clinton actually said this recently - when you get rid of one barrier, it opens up the gates for a whole bunch of people you didn't even know would benefit from it. So not fighting for the black struggle is like not fighting for the Muslim struggle.
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