Last Week Tonight: Police in America

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In light of the ongoing protests following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the brutal police response to them, Last Week Tonight looks at how the history of policing in America has been used to uphold white supremacy, the efforts in increasing police authority and in escaping accountability, and what can possibly be done to undo

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[ferelden]

I fucking love John Oliver. He's a fucking treasure.

[ferelden]

Does he really. Yikes. Retracting my statement then. Ty for the info!

[march_runaway]

that’s weird. i have a friend that writes there and she says the opposite

[summerswings]

yeah like it's not like this information is hard to find?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3530232/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

There is approx. one black writer named Kevin Avery. Not everyone has photos but all the photos you see barring Kevin are white as fuck.

[summerswings]

Same! =/ I really love last week tonight. Although I guess I should know by now that there are no admirable white men.

[zoaster_toaster]

I hope that you're right and that Oliver does address this, since the last time I remember him responding to it wasn't super awesome if I recall.

[invinouvae]

That's really disappointing to hear and I hope he fixes it now. I consider him one of the actual good ones or at the least one of the ones capable of learning and growing, unlike some of the celebrities/late host/reporters given that benefit just because they said or did one good thing. I also appreciate that he covers stories that most don't so even if he's preaching to people who already know this stuff, they can still be better informed, as I have.

Not calling him a treasure but he's decent. It's unfortunate the bar is that pathetically low.

[ellaellaeheheh]

I dont like seeing videos about brasil. did you see Hasan's? I think it was from last year.

[triviagogo29]

i didn't see it, i just remember the post about it here on ontd. i think it was your comment that made me not even click play because if i recall correctly you were complaining it was all very dumbed down and uninformative? but i mean, at least the intent was good, right?

whereas this one from john oliver has an absurd right-wing frame and basically no redeeming quality whatsoever (with the "lol state oil" quip being particularly gobsmacking).

[ellaellaeheheh]

yeah, at least that one was about the amazon and had Sonia on it

I hate the one from John Oliver, there is nothing to save it

[triviagogo29]

I've just realized I had posted the wrong video. That's the correct one lol.

[triviagogo29]

deleted the previous comment because i posted the wrong video. this is the segment i was criticizing.

i remember when he had a segment about brazil "corruption" where he showed right-wing protesters as if they were just standard anti-corruption protesters and then said made some joke about state-owned oil because "duh, it has to be privatized". great progressive ally!

anyway, a middle-age white dude paid millions by time warners to preach things that are already mainstream within the liberal youth and profit of it isn't a "treasure". great he's doing a better job talking about police brutality than the other "liberal" hosts but that's because the others are trash, not because he is a treasure.