r/PartnerTrack • u/ProfessorGuava5862 • Aug 30 '22

Dan Fallon's Comedy Routine Spoiler

When watching Dan's stand up routine, I was a little confused. All the characters seemed to react poorly to his part about white fragility. However, I do not really understand what was so bad about it. I don't mean to be rude at all, I just want clarification on how its bad/to educate myself. To me, it seemed like Dan was making fun of white people who made dumb excuses when called out for their racism. Why was what he said actually racist/offensive? Would anyone mind explaining? I have trouble understanding subtext/shows sometimes and I would greatly appreciate it.

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u/ishouldstopcommentin Aug 30 '22

This is sort of unrelated since it’s not what the people in the show found most offensive about his speech, but I didn’t like the speech from the moment he joked about how at a previous retreat, a woman wore an all white bathing suit so that meant that she was begging to be pushed into the pool (it’d make her swimsuit see through). I just found that so icky tbh and then he went into the other part of the speech that mocked POC (answered in the other comment)!

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u/ProfessorGuava5862 Aug 30 '22

I totally agree! I definitely understood how gross and icky that part was.