💼 Careercow chescaleigh / Franchesca Ramsey - Host of MTV Decoded, Failed TV Pundit, Regressive Racist, and Pepe the Frog Hater

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Facebook trying to help Francesca make a comeback? For some reason, I keep getting her two year old videos in the "Facebook Watch" sidebar. I know that this shouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason unlike the news feed there's no way to permanently stop videos from appearing here, even if you block the associated page. Why are they so insistent on resurfacing this old shit that was widely detested even when it was new?
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2odastream said:
Probably cancelled.
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That's what I figured, too. Shows aren't animation, at least the low-tier crap that I imagine Franny would have been involved with. So if it was still a thing we would have heard of it or seen it on the air by now.

And honestly, Comedy Central has probably been seeing what PC-humor has been doing to their ratings. Look at what happened to the Daily Show after John Stewart left. Absolutely unfunny shitshow. Daily Show now is like listening to NPR radio with even more failed attempts at humor.
 
A Crapload Of Waffles said:
And honestly, Comedy Central has probably been seeing what PC-humor has been doing to their ratings. Look at what happened to the Daily Show after John Stewart left. Absolutely unfunny shitshow. Daily Show now is like listening to NPR radio with even more failed attempts at humor.
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It's pretty ironic they still consider themselves a comedy channel considering that nothing they do actually pushes the boundaries of what is socially acceptable and are just trudging the party line without a hint of subversion. I actually caught a couple of Trevor Noah's stand up specials when he was still in South Africa, and he was a pretty funny guy despite being an absolute tool. It beggars belief why anyone would think a guy who hasn't grown up in a country and who acts as if he's lived there his entire life would not come across as incredibly preachy and douchey. Does anyone actually watch Jim Jefferies' show? I know he lands some high profile guests like Jordan Peterson and Bill Burr, but what are his overall ratings?
 
vhstape said:
What happened to that comedy central show she was meant to be getting?
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2odastream said:
Probably cancelled.
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I think all that was said was that CC gave her a pilot. Can't find exact statistics on this, but from a quick google search major networks typically order about 20 pilots each season, and less than half of those typically get picked up. Not surprising that hers would be rejected, but it's a bit less embarrassing than having a series ordered and then "cancelled" mid-production.
soy_king said:
It's pretty ironic they still consider themselves a comedy channel considering that nothing they do actually pushes the boundaries of what is socially acceptable and are just trudging the party line without a hint of subversion. I actually caught a couple of Trevor Noah's stand up specials when he was still in South Africa, and he was a pretty funny guy despite being an absolute tool. It beggars belief why anyone would think a guy who hasn't grown up in a country and who acts as if he's lived there his entire life would not come across as incredibly preachy and douchey. Does anyone actually watch Jim Jefferies' show? I know he lands some high profile guests like Jordan Peterson and Bill Burr, but what are his overall ratings?
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I don't think that I've seen much of Trevor Noah, but from some brief clips and his Tomi Lahren interview I got a rather unfavorable impression of him to say the least (though, I did give him credit for inviting someone like Tomi and being cordial with her in spite of his fans rage). Recently I saw Counter Arguments video on him and most of the clips were pretty grating, especially the part where he starts talking about what makes white people "racist" and rules out poverty because "most POC around the world are poor but aren't racist," as if the idea that "white" people are uniquely racist compared to other groups isn't effortlessly refuted by reality. As for your post though, I thought Trevor Noah did grow up in South Africa, and that his parents actually did suffer from apartheid? Regardless of everything else I've said about him, he does have the experience to justify talking about South Africa from a personal perspective.
 
Grand Lunar said:
I don't think that I've seen much of Trevor Noah, but from some brief clips and his Tomi Lahren interview I got a rather unfavorable impression of him to say the least (though, I did give him credit for inviting someone like Tomi and being cordial with her in spite of his fans rage). Recently I saw Counter Arguments video on him and most of the clips were pretty grating, especially the part where he starts talking about what makes white people "racist" and rules out poverty because "most POC around the world are poor but aren't racist," as if the idea that "white" people are uniquely racist compared to other groups isn't effortlessly refuted by reality. As for your post though, I thought Trevor Noah did grow up in South Africa, and that his parents actually did suffer from apartheid? Regardless of everything else I've said about him, he does have the experience to justify talking about South Africa from a personal perspective.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8h-dIBmT6E4
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Oh no, he's absolutely terrible on the Daily Show. I'm just bringing it up more for the fact that he would've probably been funnier if he'd stayed on the Dark Continent. Him talking about only white people being racist is absolutely idiotic, considering that A) he himself is half-white (his father is Swiss and his mother is Xhosa) and B) Zimbabwe, a country bordering South Africa, took land from white farmers on the basis of their skin color and discriminated against their white population enough to trigger a mass exodus of whites, not to mention the slew of attacks on whites in South Africa. He doesn't strike me as being intelligent, and it's only a matter of time before he's shit canned for having abysmal ratings.
 
soy_king said:
Him talking about only white people being racist is absolutely idiotic, considering that A) he himself is half-white (his father is Swiss and his mother is Xhosa) and B) Zimbabwe, a country bordering South Africa, took land from white farmers on the basis of their skin color and discriminated against their white population enough to trigger a mass exodus of whites, not to mention the slew of attacks on whites in South Africa
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That, and the fact that he himself has been put under fire for Holocaust jokes in the past, and most recently for jokes about Australian Aboriginal women: http://time.com/5346715/trevor-noah-aboriginal-women/

He himself has said the the "line" for offensive comedy should always depend on the context (you know, standard SJW garble), so as a gentile and a non-aboriginal person he should absolutely be in the wrong with both of these by his own standards. But of course, it's redundant at this point to remind people that SJWs never like to be held to their own rules.
 
Grand Lunar said:
That, and the fact that he himself has been put under fire for Holocaust jokes in the past, and most recently for jokes about Australian Aboriginal women: http://time.com/5346715/trevor-noah-aboriginal-women/

He himself has said the the "line" for offensive comedy should always depend on the context (you know, standard SJW garble), so as a gentile and a non-aboriginal person he should absolutely be in the wrong with both of these by his own standards. But of course, it's redundant at this point to remind people that SJWs never like to be held to their own rules.
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Yeah, I'm watching that current shitshow unfold. I doubt that will sink him, but his career won't be long regardless.
 
soy_king said:
Yeah, I'm watching that current shitshow unfold. I doubt that will sink him, but his career won't be long regardless.
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Well, we are seeing a surprising number of lefties actually get taken down by shit like this recently. In fairness, I don't know if Trevor Noah has ever directly supported firing anyone over tweets/offensive jokes, so he doesn't necessarily "deserve" to be taken down despite apologizing. While I do think this type of thing is toxic and would like to see it end, it is amusing to see all these people who helped create this, thinking that it was a weapon to be used against "bad" people and thinking that they were impervious because they're on the "right" side and deserve the freedom to make mistakes, descending into frantic panic because they know that they could theoretically be next.

Interesting that his ratings are bad though. I guess network elites are being taught that blatant "SJW" content isn't popular no matter how hard that they try to push it. On that topic, Francesca's videos may appear to do better due to the lack of a dislike button on facebook, but the good news is that their recent attempt to help her become popular probably won't be very successful.
 
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Franny has her own book that was published recently (so did fellow lolcow Virgie Tovar for that matter).
https://bust.com/books/194781-new-books-summer-women.html
http://archive.is/XsPj1
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
By Franchesca Ramsey
(Grand Central Publishing)

YouTube star and host of MTV’s Decoded Franchesca Ramsey is no stranger to controversy. Just like her videos, her first book, Well, That Escalated Quickly, tackles racism, sexism, and intersectionality. With chapters titled “Eulogies for Cringe-Worthy Comments” and “Activism is Like Long Division—You Have to Show Your Work,” Ramsey writes an approachable, informative guide for budding members of the #resistance. She begins by discussing her first viral video, 2012’s “Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls.” In discussing some of the backlash that ensued, she both calls herself out (“It became painfully obvious that I’d made a terrible mistake”) and reflects on her growth (“Instead of telling her she was being ridiculous and low-key racist, I decided to take the high road.”)

Ramsey’s anecdotes as a black woman who grew up in the suburbs are salient, but her explanations of past controversies—such as her infamous interview with Anderson Cooper—are a bit defensive. The book excels when Ramsey is doing what she does best: calling people in and sparking crucial dialogue. 4/5 –Robyn Smith
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Recently tweeted about the "Alternative Influence Report," leading with "there are some interesting names on that graph." Probably primarily interested because of Andy Warski being the central figure of the graph, even though she won't outright name him. And Sargon's presence I guess, since she was so triggered by his response videos to her that she once tried reporting him to Patreon hoping to get him banned. While it's actually true that Warski became an alt right sympathizer and buddied up to a bunch of white nationalists, Francesca claims to now have "hard data" that proves that she was right all along. Yes Francesca, some bullshit research institute throwing out a barely readable guilt-by-association web with almost no concrete methodology beyond "they appeared in a video together and aren't Contrapoints or another progressive youtuber" constitutes hard data and shows that you were never a snake doing your best to lie about people.
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The worst thing about Francesca is the fact that she's always so smug with everything, like this kind of "I'm always right" attitude rather than being open to try to understand opposing ideas. It's scary when you realize that her mentality is a superiority complex which is hidden under the guise of "activism".
 
pineapplepizza said:
The worst thing about Francesca is the fact that she's always so smug with everything, like this kind of "I'm always right" attitude rather than being open to try to understand opposing ideas. It's scary when you realize that her mentality is a superiority complex which is hidden under the guise of "activism".
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That’s what you do when your argument has holes in it, doesn’t have a leg to stand on, and you can’t debate someone.
 
We could probably trigger her into a lolcow freak out by making fun of her hair, black women are really sensitive about that. Just whatever she says, "when did paul mooney get nasty ass dreads lol" and see what happens.
 
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