Ken Burch
1 min readJul 6, 2020

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Why does your notion of comedy seem to be so grounded in rage and in the act of wounding people? And why, especially in wounding the powerless? Do you believe comedy has to inflict pain to be funny?

Why shold there ever even be in which straight white men lash out at women, people of color, LGBTQ, undocumented humans, or Muslims? It's not as though white male comedians have any valid reasons to feel rage against anybody in those categories?

Why should any white man ever feel that kind of anger towards anybody in any other identity?

There's no way those groups ever did anything to him.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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