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I didn’t find Bill Burr’s SNL monologue funny, and Twitter lost its shit
I had never heard of Bill Burr before this weekend, when the stand-up comic and actor hosted Saturday Night Live. I don’t think that is particularly important information, but many of the people I outraged enough to call me a “bitch,” a “cunt,” or “limp wristed” seemed to think it is So, hands up, I don’t know who Bill Burr is beyond what I saw on SNL.
Why were these people so angry they felt compelled to call me names? Well, I committed the heinous crime of tweeting that I did not like Burr’s monologue:
I’m an opinion writer and gay man on the internet, so I’m used to people sharing their disdain for my views and for me more personally. But the deluge of anger and hate I received following that tweet was unexpected and of such a volume that I feel compelled to explain…
