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🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Activists in Australia are calling for a boycott of Trevor Noah, who you probably know from the Daily Show, |
0:05.6 | over a joke that is surfaced from 2013, where he made some insinuations about the beauty of |
0:11.1 | indigenous Australian women and some implications about sexual activities they engage in. |
0:16.0 | Many people were offended by this and are saying they should boycott him in Australia. |
0:20.8 | This isn't the only racism scandal Noah has been involved in this week, |
0:24.8 | because just a few days ago he made comments about the French World Cup team, |
0:28.8 | implying that their victory was a victory for Africa, which is essentially an alt-right argument. |
0:34.8 | So what exactly did Trevor Noah say in 2013, what are activists saying about it, |
0:40.4 | and is this second scandal evidence that Trevor Noah is racist? |
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1:01.2 | at whatever level you feel comfortable today. The story from the Guardian, Trevor Noah responds |
1:06.0 | to boycott calls over racist joke about aboriginal women. A head of Australian tour comedian vows |
1:12.4 | never to make a joke like that again after footage resurfaces from 2013. A number of prominent |
1:17.5 | indigenous Australians called for the boycott of Noah's upcoming tour of Australia |
1:21.6 | after the video of a stand-up routine in which he made a racist joke about aboriginal women |
1:26.1 | and their appearance resurfaced online. All women of every race can be beautiful. |
1:30.5 | The comedian and host of the Daily Show said during the routine from five years ago, |
1:33.9 | There's no such thing as the most beautiful race. All women of every race can be beautiful. There's |
1:38.2 | no such thing as the most beautiful race because facially every woman has different features. |
1:42.6 | You can be beautiful in the matter what race you are. Yeah, women all can have beautiful faces. |
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