Hasan Minhaj Apparently Just Made Shit Up

[bluestoplights]

In his comedy, Hasan Minhaj tells harrowing stories about experiences he’s faced as an Asian American and Muslim American. This week, Minhaj acknowledged, for the first time, that many of the anecdotes he related in his Netflix specials were untrue.https://t.co/uVqMov8L7K
- The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 15, 2023
In a New Yorker investigation

Comments

[sabrina54]

Have you read the article?

"But the woman disputed certain facts. She told me that she’d turned down Minhaj, who was then a close friend, in person, days before the dance. Minhaj acknowledged that this was correct, but he said that the two of them had long carried different understandings of her rejection. As a “brown kid in Davis, California,” he said, he’d been conditioned to put his head down and “just take it, and I did.” The “emotional truth” of the story he told onstage was resonant and justified the fabrication of details. “There are so many other kids who have had a similar sort of doorstep experience,” he said."

She was also engaged to an Indian man and he pretended like he didn't know his fans Doxed her and her family.

Also, bitch really lied about a Muslim convert attempting to recruit him into a terrorist cell and being manhandled by cops after 9/11.

He also lied about his connections to Jamal Khashoggi.

Ya, comedians tell fake stories but this man made an entire career about the harsh reality of the Brown/Muslim experience in America using completely FAKE stories.

Unless you read the article and believe it's all harmless jokes.

[dadom88]

Honestly....The last sentence basically sums it up. White comedians have been embellishing on stories of their white experience for centuries. I see no problem with a brown comedian doing it.

And I certainly don't care for the perspective on it being told by a white journalist. Especially considering there are an abundance of white comedians that she could have carried this theme with.

[sabrina54]

Wow, what a trash take.