Comedian Discriminated Against for Being White - Tyler Fischer

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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0:00.0	So I'm sitting there like, all right, here we go.
0:02.8	Finally, it's all happening.
0:05.3	And he goes, we hit a snag, we really love you.
0:09.8	We think you're a star, but we're not taking white guys.
0:14.8	I miss the old days, you know,
0:16.0	when you just treated people by how they were, you know,
0:18.7	someone was a dick, you're a dick to them,
0:20.0	someone's nice, you're nice.
0:21.0	Now they're like, oh, I don't think so.
0:23.4	I said, is that company policy?
0:25.4	And he said, yeah, it is.
0:28.5	And so, you know, I hung up.
0:31.9	And I was crushed.
0:34.2	You have to look at their skin color, their gender.
0:37.2	There's a whole checklist of things you have to do
0:39.0	before you even say hello to somebody.
0:40.6	It makes you crazy.
0:41.8	Lots of sleepless nights and a lot of pain
0:44.9	and having some of my heroes hate me.
0:48.7	People don't want to know your story, right?
0:51.3	They can attack you, but nobody knows what I've gone through
0:55.0	and survive.
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