Negin Farsad: A highly scientific taxonomy of haters
Negin Farsad: Eine Wissenschaftliche Hasser-Klassifizierung
Stand-up comedian Negin Farsad counters Islamophobia in funny and clever ways. Full bio
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amerikanische Muslimin,
soziale Gerechtigkeit.
let me tell you how I got here.
und wie ich dazu kam.
America is majestic, right?
can be broken up
category here are the Haters.
sind die Hasser am schlimmsten.
by being extra loud.
durch extreme Lautstärke.
of demographics,
which leads to negative outcomes,
was negative Folgen hat,
after all of them, right?
gegen alle gleich vorgehen.
a highly scientific Taxonomy of Haters.
für Hasser aufgestellt.
like a scientist,
in eine Petrischale geworfen
digital haters.
videos all day long.
"Go back to your own country!"
actually gotten out of their cars
aus ihren Autos gestiegen,
ins Gesicht zu schleudern.
like they used to --
of the decline in America.
für den Zerfall Amerikas.
deren-Gruppenzugehörigkeit-
whose-group-affiliation-
via a seemingly nice organization,
scheinbar nette Organisationen
in an old-timey voice.
interested in is the swing hater.
sind die Wechsel-Hasser.
to the swing voter --
mit den Wechselwählern verwandt;
enough information.
genug Informationen haben.
with social justice comedy.
mit meiner Comedy erreichen.
as you can see from this graph.
Comedy, wie man in diesem Diagramm sieht.
korrektes Diagramm,
soziale-Gerechtigkeit-Comedy?
you enter into a state of openness.
einen Zustand der Offenheit.
can stick in a whole bunch of information,
Informationen stopfen.
for social justice comedy:
für sozial-Gerechtigkeits-Comedy:
this is about justice,
es geht um Gerechtigkeit.
in einem Burrito zu sitzen.
inside of a burrito.
an interesting treatise
über Einkommensungleichheit hören,
sophisticated poop joke.
Furz-Witz eingebunden ist.
social justice comedy working.
of Muslim-American comedians --
amerikanische Comedians zusammen --
Tennessee, Georgia --
Tennessee, Georgia --
"The Muslims Are Coming!"
"Die Muslime kommen!".
dass eine bekannte Hass-Gruppe
Anti-Muslim-Plakataktion
New Yorker U-Bahn-System --
the New York City subway system.
our own poster campaign
eine eigene Plakataktion,
Dean Obeidallah
with-delightful-posters campaign.
Intoleranz-mit-schöner-Plakataktion".
with the MTA for over 5 months,
5 Monate mit der MTA zusammen,
were supposed to go up,
verbot die MTA die Plakate
at a couple of those posters.
the concept of a hospital.
more push-ups than baby Muslims.
mehr Liegestütze als Muslim-Babys.
Justin Timberlake erfunden.
political by the MTA.
wohl als politisch.
of Muslims in a positive light
von Muslime in einem positiven Licht
with-delightful-posters campaign
with-a-delightful-lawsuit campaign.
Gerichtsprozess umzuwandeln.
is a couple of dirt-bag comedians
ein paar Comedian-Drecksäcke
New Yorker Agentur an,
blonde girls feel like all the time?
Blondinen ständig so?
"Why don't Muslims denounce terrorism?"
verurteilen Muslime Terror nicht?"
thedailydenouncer.com.
terrorism every day of the week,
an jedem Werktag verurteilt,
as single-panel cartoons,
people who never fill the paper tray!"
die den Papierkorb nicht nutzen."
is that it denounces terrorism
den Terror zu verurteilen,
denounce terrorism.
for all sorts of issues.
comedian Lee Camp
to investigate offshore banking.
um Offshore-Banking zu untersuchen.
something like 300 billion dollars a year
jährlich ungefähr 300 Milliarden Dollar
in disposable income.
die ich entbehren könnte.
in the Cayman Islands
auf den Caymans
open up a bank account
ein Konto eröffnen könnten
for 30-45 seconds before calling security.
Sekunden, bevor sie die Security riefen,
brandish their weapons,
with fear and run away,
rule of social justice comedy --
sozialer-Gerechtigkeits-Comedy --
to take a dump in your pants.
in die Hose machen.
Freude bereiten.
a connection and laughter.
und Gelächter zu erzeugen.
run off the grounds by security.
die Securities vom Gelände.
that if I continue telling my jokes,
die besagen, erzähle ich weiterhin Witze,
and they'll kill my family.
are definitely not funny.
is one of our best weapons.
eine unserer besten Waffen ist.
a lot of approaches to social justice,
soziale Gerechtigkeit ausprobiert,
are still kind of awful.
einen wirklich guten Furz-Witz.
a really good poop joke.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Negin Farsad - Comedian, filmmakerStand-up comedian Negin Farsad counters Islamophobia in funny and clever ways.
Why you should listen
Negin Farsad was named one of the Funniest Women of 2015 by Huffington Post, one of the 10 Best Feminist Comedians by Paper magazine and was selected as a TED Fellow for her work in social justice comedy.
Farsad is the author of the recently released How to Make White People Laugh, a memoir-meets-social-justice-comedy manifesto (published by Grand Central, a division of Hachette). She is also the director/writer/star of the rom-com "3RD Street Blackout," starring Janeane Garofalo, Ed Weeks and John Hodgman, set for a summer 2016 release. She has written for/appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, PBS, IFC, Nickelodeon and others. She is director/producer of the feature films The Muslims Are Coming! starring Jon Stewart, David Cross and Lewis Black, and Nerdcore Rising, starring Weird Al Yankovic. She has sued New York State’s MTA over the right to put up funny posters about Muslims and won! She started her comedy career as a Cornell and Columbia-educated policy advisor for the City of New York.
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