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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 184 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
  • “Schneider is a known transphobe and anti-vaxxer”
  • “a Canadian medical nonprofit”
  • 🤨
  • just how many red flags did they ignore?
[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 89 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think Schneider is a dipshit and a bigot, but this one is on the organizers. Were they expecting "makin' copieees" and shit?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is this what happens when you choose from "entertainers" list by sorting by "price - low to high"? Is this really a surprise when you shop from the clearance rack?

Were these organizers looking at the list and saying "Hmm, Carrot Top is a bit too 'high brow' for our engagement. Who else do we have?"

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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 41 points 5 months ago

I wonder if this was a case of someone seeing a "big name" but being clueless about his history and thinking, "I recognize his name, must mean he's popular." Then they hired him without vetting because he had a recognizable name and they believed he was therefore popular and "cool". I mean, I know who Rob Schneider is because I've heard his name get thrown around a lot, but I had no idea he was a bigoted piece of shit because I've never (knowingly) watched any of his movies, nor do I keep up with celebrity gossip.

That said, it's really stupid to hire people without vetting them in this day and age because people have become so insane and brainless that you have no clue what they might say when they get up on stage; but 10 years ago I could see you being able to get away with not vetting celebrities. As such, the person/people who approved him might have been +10 years out of touch and/or lazy.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Trust me when I say that since this was in Saskatchewan, it's likely nobody checked because it never even crossed their minds that they should.

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago

Don’t sleep, Schneider is also:

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 172 points 5 months ago

Anti-vaxx jokes at a hospital fundraiser. That's one of the stupider moves I've seen today.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 83 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hiring him was the dumb move considering that it's known he's a reich-wing fuckwit

[-] foo@programming.dev 28 points 5 months ago

Rob doesn't seem to be the smartest of people.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 87 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Rob Schneider. The SNL guy that had one character, then moved on to being remembered as "The Stapler" on South Park.

What an inspiration.

Edit. Now that I think about it, Schneider is actually being a true comedian through and through here. The golden rule is to always punch up, and Schneider is attempting to do just that.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 61 points 5 months ago

I started Googling "Rob Schneider" and Google autocompleted "herp de derp" after that.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 83 points 5 months ago

I got blocked by him on Twitter (in 2012!) for mocking his whackjob antivax views. He was espousing shit headed antivax nonsense long before it was fashionable.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 81 points 5 months ago

At first I was sad reading that an actor I liked turned out to be a bigot, but then I realized I was confusing this dipshit with Roy Scheider and felt better.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Roy Scheider is, unfortunately, no longer with us. Rob Schneider is, unfortunately, still with us.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

Calling him an "actor" is incredibly generous.

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[-] siR_miLLs@lemm.ee 62 points 5 months ago

dude isn't even funny in the first place. he can't do a Dave Chappell. Pander to the bigoted masses with a modicum of talent. Now if Dave Chappell wasn't a pos he could easily be the funniest man in comedy instead of a fringe washup but here we are. Used to love them both for their niech humor but lets be honest Rob was only ever funny cause he was proped up by mid Adam Sandler scripts.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

I went to see Rob Schneider perform comedy round 2015. Tickets were free for a Saturday night. It was at 80% capacity, which is unusual since it's always sold out.

He was pretty rough and attempted to be edgy. He already had gay jokes and there was polite laughter, but nothing compared to the professional comedians who opened for him.

Honestly I thought he'd quit after a few years.

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[-] K3zi4@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

Oh, look, another old comedian jumps on the bigot bandwagon. It's an incredibly transparent trend now for when they can't write the same material that got them there in the first place, or when they are no longer working with the person that wrote their material for them.

Take a few shots at trans people, purely for publicity, then use that sudden boost from the circle jerking media to secure yourself a Netflix special, where you can talk about how you've been cancelled for an hour and a half for a big payout.

It's just a marketing ploy for using peoples own outrage against them.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

He's been a conservative hack for a while (and he's been a hack for his entire career), he just hid it better than, say, Victoria Jackson or something. This is him feeling too comfortable. I'm glad this crowd didn't let him stay comfortable.

[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 5 months ago

Rob Schneider peaked literally last century with Deuce Bigalow. As if that were not bad enough...

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

I believe he peaked at "making copies..." on SNL. Deuce just sped up the downhill roll

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

He peaked at the first "making copies" sketch. Then they didn't stop.

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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago

Rob Schneider is... The Bigot! Rated PG-13

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

What's up with all these washed up celebrities coming back to the spotlight just to make an ass of themselves?

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

They were always an ass. That's the secret.

Nowdays, we just have more visibility into this shit than we did "back in their day".

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 46 points 5 months ago

"You think you're so cool cuz you pee with your penis!" - Rob Schneider responding to trans audience members who boo him

[-] ZeroCool@vger.social 45 points 5 months ago

I'll never forgive Adam Sandler for keeping Rob Schneider vaguely relevant by letting him ride his coattails for the last 30 years. "Makin' coppppieeesss" stfu you bigoted hack.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

I don't really understand these dipshits. The older I get the more tolerant of others outlook on life I get. I might not agree but I don't have to trash them to make myself feel better. I certainly don't begrudge them their own preferences. Perhaps one reason for this is that I have become asexual. Or chaste to use a really old term for not interested.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I don't know that asexual is really the same as chaste, because chaste implies you're using some sort of willpower to avoid sex rather than just not wanting to have sex. Either, in my opinion, is a fine way to live your life, but they're not really the same. I wouldn't say that all nuns are asexual, but all nuns are supposed to be chaste.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 45 points 5 months ago

If this means that he finally fades into obscurity and we never have to hear from him again, maybe it’s for the greater good.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

Weird coming from a guy who basically played a transgender person in the Hot Chick and also is a stapler.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Imagine starring in a movie where your character is desperately trying to explain to loved ones that they're trapped in the wrong body and don't understand how to navigate this gender that they find themselves in and then come out in the other side being transphobic. Like, he's so media illiterate that he doesn't empathize with his own characters. So then it was just hateful jokes the whole time, I guess. Dude stopped maturing at like 15.

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[-] Delusional@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

Lmao did they have no idea who he was when they booked him? Did someone hire him as a joke? I don't get why he was even there.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

There are a quite a lot of nursing and medical admin staff in healthcare who are rabidly antivax. At least in America, so I assume it's at least partially true in Canada to. I wonder if that had something to do with this clearly terrible pairing of organization and washed-up clown 'comedian'.

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago

Hire Rob Schneider to do his stand up act. Rob Schneider does his stand up act.

Schneider came out as a clown in 2012.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

I didn't even need to know he is a bigot to know he sucks, because he has sucked for a long, long, looooooong time.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 months ago

LOL it's hilarious that rob fucking schneider is the only "celebrity" they can get to trumpet their bullshit

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

The first rule of comedy is, "Know your audience."

It’s clear he did this for some other reason. I’m assuming he is just starved for attention.

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

Preaches hate. Receives hate.

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