When you share this image, you are blindly repeating one of the most unapologetic, vile pieces of transphobia ever uttered on television. Spitting on Brandon Teena's grave for Internet points. I'm posting this because I still see it randomly posted without any context.
God I had no idea that’s what the quote was about (even though I knew about Brandon Teena’s story at the time). Atrocious. Thank you for this.
Wow I had no idea that was the “joke”
Thank you, I didn't know this.
Also Good Omens is entirely the creation of Terry Pratchett, nobody else was involved in any way at all, the man's incredible talent produced the entire thing, zero collaboration.
Thank you for this. Every time I see someone post this image my heart sinks a bit more.
People tend to forget that Norm McDonald was a genuine piece of shit
Like I get a lot of comedians were friends with him, but like, he was genuinely a bad person
Did he ever respond?
The context is irrelevant to the meme.
holy shit
Holy shit I never knew this, that's fucking abhorrent. Thank you for sharing this and bringing attention to it.
thanks for sharing this. don’t think i’ve run into the screenshot in the wild fortunately, but that’s insanely fucked up and norm should have done better
Damn, deleting that one from the archives
aaaand it’s gone. thank you for your service 🫡
Wow, did not know this. Thank you for sharing.
I had no idea. Shit
holy shit ok ill stay away from that one °~°;
I mean norm Macdonald also thought highly of jk rowling so there’s that… ugh
I know lots of ppl loved Norm and his approach to comedy especially by 80s/90s standards, but a LOT of his early work definitely hasn’t aged well at all 😬
I can’t help but think if he were still alive, he’d probably be a part of the anti-woke boomer comedian circle like Chappelle and Seinfeld
Jim Downy was head writer for Weekend Update during the Norm era. He deserves some guilt for this horseshit too. (As does Lorne for letting it air.)
They've since apologized for it, but back then even guys like Patton Oswalt and Jon Stewart said some foul transphobic shit. Despite there being evidence to the contrary there was still a lot of belief that it was just a weird kink and nothing more.
whatever happened to common decency
I just thought he wasn't funny, I didn't realize he was soulless. Good riddance.
of fucking course that shit got aired on SNL, i recognize that backdrop from anywhere
Crikey. I’ve seen this meme a lot yet this is the first time I’ve seen the context behind it.
May Brandon’s memory be an eternal blessing.
I recently saw an old Norm MacDonald Weekend Update segment about a trans woman fighting for custody of her kids and I won’t repeat the joke but it was horrifying.
This will definitely sound weird, but God Bless Riki Wilchins, the good people at The Transexual Menace and trans activists worldwide.
Fuck, I did not know the context of that joke from him.
What a bastard.
I haven't seen that meme before, nor the story associated. I read it as meaning the opposite, that Norm McDonald thought the rapist/murderers should be erased. The only person who did not deserve punishment was already dead, along with being one person and not "everyone." I might be wrong though.
Same with the gif of Jordan Peele sweating profusely. It's from a K&P sketch wherein his girlfriend found his porn collection and he's so horrified she'll learn he enjoys trans porn that he'd rather admit to more heinous things just to deflect her suspicion.
My god "What's nice about transgender activism is that i's reliable work." hits like a brick.
I had not heard this story before, and like so many things it's both infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time.. i fear stories like this will become increasingly common in the near future.
jesus christ i didn't know that
I embarrassingly learned this only a couple years ago. One of my friends was kind enough to gently give me the context for it. When that aired, I was a teenager and my parents didn’t let me watch SNL.
I saw this very meme posted in what is supposed to be a "safe" community just today...yikes.
First Norm, then Rob Schneider, now David Spade and Dana Carvey are mocking and misgendering Laura Jane Grace on their podcast.... Did the casting call for that era of SNL say "Horrible bigots only" on it?
huh, I'd never heard of the context! how awful
I’m so glad someone’s finally bringing this up it’s been going on for far too long
not sure I ever actually heard the joke preceding this. wtf
and not to mention that norm (the guy who is in this meme) was accused of sxually hrassing women and comedy clubs tried to protect him…yikes…. www.thedailybeast.com/the-complica...
Norm Macdonald, who passed away at 61 from cancer, was a comedy legend. But these women say he sexually harassed them, and comedy clubs took measures to protect women from him.
jfc thats fully awful
This is why I tell people that nostalgia for the 80's and 90's is dangerous and wrong-headed.
That time was really racist and homophobic, not so loudly transphobic, because trans folks were almost entirely in the closet. But when they did make the news, this was the response.
That was the context??? Jesus
In the 90s, all queer things were still closely (and obviously falsely) equated with pedophilia. So there were lots of people who put them on the same level as pedophiles and regularly considered their "deviancy" as deserving of death. Not that that attitude has ebbed much.
vile. wtf.
Thanks for the PSA, didnt know, glad to now
never have heard of this before. I hope he's burning in hell.
Jesus Fucking Christ
😢
Turns out being a funny edgelord basically guarantees you’re a piece of shit
I didn't utilize this meme personality but I have seen it around and may have reposted/liked etc. I apologize and I won't forget.
had no idea ab the original story and issa damn shame cuz the applicability of that line was 2nd to none bye bye forever now 😢
i had no idea. ty
God almighty
Fucking hell I didn't know that. Removing that from my folder now.
jesus I had no idea. deleting that right now, and spreading the word where I've seen it used before. thank you
i did not know this, how awful...i am guilty of using this image. thank you for the context.
Thank you for sharing, that's awful context I was unaware of.
I am fortunate to have never encountered its usage.
I must admit I only skimmed that text. It is too deeply painful for me right now. The fact that many people would kill me just for existing is upsetting.. worst of all because I cannot understand how anyone has that kind of hate, for anything.
Thank you. I never knew that, and because I’ve enjoyed so much of his work over the years I really want to believe neither did he. But knowing the little I do about his personal beliefs, I think there’s a chance he may have. 😐
Thank you. I had no idea about the context
Some further context of the resolution between Riki Anne form In Your Face in 1996
www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5B...
![[forgo the picketing] of Saturday Night Live. The threatened action in followed a February segment of SNL's "Weekend Update" by staff regular Norm MacDonald in which he stated: "In Nebraska a man was sentenced [to die] for killing a female crossdresser who had accused him of rape and two of her friends. Excuse me, but in my mind they all deserved to die." Following expressions of outrage across the trans and queer communities, Menace spokestrans contacted NBC, vigorously expressing their shock and anger. They received immediate responses from the head of NBC's Standards & Practices, as well as Media Relations. Reviewing the show, NBC agreed the line was inappropriate and should not have aired, adding that similar incidents would not re-occur.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2tbz35djygno6yveenilap5h/bafkreibp2by5n7kbu5r3ign2s43iw2q7utoabirgfzamlxw6ggat6gp3r4@jpeg)
🖕🏻Comedy , oppression for laughs. Raycist enough for an apartheid American pastime .
