Comedian Amy Schumer Denies She Has A 'Blind Spot For Racism' and 'Lazy'

Comedian Amy Schumer hits back on the critics who claimed she is a racist because of her jokes. On a lengthy Twitter post, the comedian defended the way she uses race on her pitches and slammed those who wants her to stick to “safer” material.

Schumer took to Twitter on Sunday morning to defend her job as a comic. She wrote that as a comic, there would naturally be materials that people would not be comfortable to hear jokes about but she does not care. “I will joke about things you like and i will joke about things you aren’t comfortable with, “ she wrote. It can be remembered that she was criticised as being racist by a Guardian article published early Sunday morning. According to the article, the comedian tends to have a “shockingly large blind spot around race” even she is widely known as a feminist. The article harshly branded her jokes on race as “tactless” and “no apparent larger point.” Even though Schumer’s twitter post did not mention that she is particularly enraged or insulted by the Guardian article per se, she did say “You can call it a ‘blind spot for racism’ or ‘lazy’ but you are wrong,” obviously pertaining to the article.

She added that she knows her jokes are being appreciated because other people are laughing at it. She emphasised that she would not start to joke about safer materials from now on just because she made some uncomfortable, especially since she loves what she does. She implored as well for the critics to “resist the urge” to pick her apart and reiterated that she is not a racist.

The Guardian article is not the first one to label Schumer a racist though. She was criticised back in April when she joked about “Gone Girl” and Latinas during the 2015 MTV Movie Awards. She summarised the movie as a story of “what one crazed white woman, or all Latinas do” if they are cheated on. The joke then was met with an uncomfortable silence. Still, the comedian took all the criticisms in a stride then.

Apart from branding her a racist, some articles, including one by The Week, also claimed Schumer is hardly a feminist. Her jokes are also sometimes degrading to women.

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