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• I 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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  Struggle, Native American, Fighting

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• The 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.

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  People, Justice, Cheesy

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• I mostly want to highlight things that feel like an injustice, and that's not really political. No one is going to - or should - say that bigotry toward Muslims is partisan. It's a matter of being just or not being just. So that's why I started calling myself a social justice comedian.

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  Justice, Political, Comedian

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• In general, I think there are some things that require time before you can talk about them. Some stuff that happened over the summer, for instance - the Philando Castile shooting, Alton Sterling, the police officers in Dallas - there was no room for jokes. But there are, of course, the policies that have given us those events. Now, there's a lot of room for jokes there. When you're looking at something difficult to talk about, there's always a sideways way in that feels a little less personal to people. That's where the joke lives.

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  Summer, Thinking, People

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• We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

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  Modern, Make Sense

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• I 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.

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  Narcissistic, World, Comedy

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• There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

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  People, Goal, Political

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• Nos complicamos la vida convenciendo a la gente de que el islam es pacífico y variado antes de darnos cuenta de que, un momento, ¡se puede ser musulmán y reconocer al mismo tiempo que el islam no explica ni la mitad de los comportamientos!

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  People, Waiting, Peaceful

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• Gracias a Internet, creo, mucho odio se ha trasladado a lugares más anónimos. Mucha gente descarga así su agresividad. O se dedican a odiar desde el coche, cuando van en coche, gritan una estupidez por la ventanilla en un semáforo y se largan. Odiar ya no es tan complicado y laborioso como antes. No hay tanta interacción cara a cara. Facebook les ha vuelto perezosos.

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  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

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• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

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  Creative, Challenges, Boring

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