Louis CK on minorities

artemisfowl15 · 6 months

What it means is that each minority group does not constitute at least fifty percent of the population, but all minorities combined are 80% of the population. There are still more white people than any other specific group.

symbioticintheory · 6 months

Oh look a picture of Louis ck with text on it

In_The_Good_Old_Days · 6 months

'Minority' is a comprehensive label.

If your country is majority anglo-saxon, then just because Washington is 80% black it doesn't mean they're a majority. It just means there's a high concentration of a minority group in that area.

aps8369 · 6 months

Speaking of which...

deezeejoey · 6 months

Not a very original joke.

pixelated_dongs · 6 months

Minority does not always mean minority in terms of quantity. In Sociology, it's the dominant people and the minority people. The names sort of speak for itself

BrainDeadKennedy · 6 months

Silly mexican

ArthriticNinja · 6 months

I tripped the fuck out when I found out he was Mexican.

FUDGESICLES · 6 months

I just don't get reddit's collective hard on for Louis CK...

FMWavesOfTheHeart · 6 months

I got a chuckle out of this but it should be noted that it's not really about quantity, it's about what group holds the power.

steffan-l · 6 months

Minoritieeeeeeessssss.... In my water park In my water paaaark... Minoritieeeeesss!

Ragnalypse · 6 months

Blame sociologists and their political correctness, not arrogant white people.

Modern convention in sociology is to refer to disadvantaged groups as minorities - Women incldued. Minority is basically the cover-all word for "not a straight white male."

[deleted] · 6 months

Ah yes, white guilt - Comedian form.

cedurr · 6 months

Even the stupidest Louis CK quotes make it to the front page.

AndrewGaspar · 6 months

Minority: A sub-group that makes up less than 50% of the whole group. Majority: A sub-group that makes up more than 50% of the whole group. Plurality: A sub-group that is larger than all other sub-groups in the group.

EDIT: So really, 100% of New York is minority if the minority status is based off as a percentage of New York's population. But I'm guessing the minority status is granted based on the group's representation out of all people in America.

WeekendWarrior25 · 6 months

There are too many minorities in my water park :(

crazycoala · 6 months

Wow... I just realized that Louis CK was Dave on Parks and Rec...

skizfrenik_syco · 6 months

reminds me of the south park episode where Cartman complains about all the minorities in the water park..

El_Zorro09 · 6 months

Somewhere along the line... this whole thread just missed the joke.

joshbike · 6 months

Cartman had the same problem. here is his video/song.

donkeymon · 6 months

Every time one of my Japanese students come back from visiting the US, they tell me, "Oh my god, there were foreigners everywhere!"

tiag0d1as · 6 months

Southpark full episode on minorities

Minorities by Eric Cartman bad quality :P

the music begins in 1:50 of the episode.

misterswarvey · 6 months

I wish the words covered him up more.

maglincer · 6 months

How does he not get it?

MatthewMatic · 6 months

Obviously it's saying that 80% of people in NY belong to groups which form minorities within the US as a whole. Nevertheless, it's still a good lead in to the joke.

greggersraymer · 6 months

Not Louie's shining moment, mathematically

tinktj06 · 6 months

South park covered this topic as well; in the water park ep.

Hooplaa · 6 months

He's not funny, his facts are inaccurate and he's a dick

nyx1234 · 6 months

Interesting fact: women are the only minority that actually make up a majority of the US's population. We make up 50.8% of the population. source

Edit- Getting downvoted, but whatever. I'm not some foaming at the mouth feminist. I just thought it was interesting that by the definition of minority, women are the majority. I was surprised to learn that fact and like to share knowledge.

dinosoreloser · 6 months

Except minorities does not always dictate terms of population. It's more of who's in power in society.

As in, I could have many oompa loompas working in my chocolate factory, out numbering humans, but they are still in the minority regardless because I control them and force them to make my candy.

Edit: not trying to bag on CK!! I like him

luek · 6 months

South Park did it

drinkme217 · 6 months

In my sociology class, we used texts that labeled blacks in South Africa a "minority" group because they lacked political power. It didn't sit right with me, and it still doesn't. My much younger roommate informs me he learned whites in SA as a "dominant minority." But, this at least WAS an accepted definition at one point in time.

popfizzle · 6 months

Louis CK has a lot of white guilt. He's like the George Lopez of white people.

Vee_Vee · 6 months

Some of the shit this dude says is just stupid.

not_a_novelty_acount · 6 months

I thought the majority was the race that holds the most power? For example, in some parts of Africa whites hold the most power so they are still the majority.

Geekotronic · 6 months

Funny as always from Louis, but to clarify for people who actually make this argument seriously "minorities" is the plural of minority. As in many minority populations, none of whom comprise more than the 20% we do. They're still all minorities.

dlescook · 6 months

I remember hearing this same joke on southpark

ralf_ · 6 months

According to Wikipedia the demographics of New York City are:
44.6% White
27.5% Latino
25.1% Black or African
11.8% Asian
0.4% American Indian (Natives)

You get only to 80% Minorities if you split the blocks up and count Italians, Irish and Russians etc as extra.

Immigrant Africans, Carribeans, and African Americans are the plurality and make up 25.1% (2,086,566 black people). This categorizing in Wikipedia strikes me as a bit suboptimal. If you are a french speaking roman-catholic African from Kongo your culture is not exactly like a typical African American whose family lives since the Civil War in Brooklyn. (Of course this is also true for a Mr Schmidt who never ate a Bratwurst in his life.)
Asian Americans 11.8% (976,807 total and 445,145 Chinese)
Puerto Rican: (778,628)
Italian: 8.2% (684,230)
Dominican: (602,093)
Irish: 5.3% (443,364)
Other Hispanic or Latino: (351,635)
German: 3.6% (296,901)
Mexican: (289,755)
Russian: 3.1% (260,821)
Polish: 2.8% (237,919)
Indian Americans: 2.7% (226,888)
Ecuadorian: (201,708)
English: 1.9% (160,472)
Colombian: (113,469)
Greek: 1.0% (83,575)

And just because the City once was named "Nieuw Amsterdam":
Dutch: 0.3% (24,776)

knobbysideup · 6 months

Downvoted for being more reddit masturbatory obsession over Louis CK. Read it, and wished I could downvote even further. That was dumb.

edit Spelling.

JustBrowsing4Chan · 6 months

What has happened to this place

I don’t recognize it anymore

It used to be so fun and special

What is life worth living for

The dream is dead

Our land is gone

There’s a hole in my heart

And I can’t go on

There are too many minorities (minorities)

At my water park (my water park)

This was our land, our dream (our dream)

and they’ve taken it all away

dis issue tuch me daep

stuppa · 6 months

Louis CK also directed Pootie-Tang.

Just saying.

ecuz67 · 6 months

too many words

ngcazz · 6 months

Arial Italic over yellow backgrounds fuck yeah.

commissar_yakov · 6 months

There's popular majority and political majority. If you have a city that's 80% black but with a legislature dominated by whites who only pass legislation favorable to whites, then the blacks are a minority. If you have a city that is 12% black but all the legislators are blacks doing things specifically to favor blacks, then they are a majority. Kafka comes to mind

bigbuddha0911 · 6 months

So I guess that the sample population of 8.5 million represents the target population of about 311.5 million people?

shit-head · 6 months

Well technically in Africa, he wouldn't be the white guy. He'd be the muzungu.

GeneralTsoAngry · 6 months

Oh god...the font

Darktidemage · 6 months

if you have 10 groups 7 of which are 10% of the population and 1 of which is 30% of the population you can refer to the 10% groups as "minorities" and say "70% of the population are minorities"

It's not racist. It's not stupid. And it doesn't mean if you go to africa you would refer to the black people there are minorities.

Louis C.K. understands this. He is making this joke because he knows a lot of his audience is stupid and will think it's intelligent.

random314 · 6 months

well, 20% Asians, 20% blacks, 20% Hispanics and 40% white still make white the majority even though the population is 60% minority.

mjklin · 6 months

The last part reminds me of how many Chinese restaurant workers in the US refer to their customers as "waiguoren" (foreigners).

MexicanRailroad · 6 months

Is this on one of his albums or specials? I haven't heard this bit.

estrtshffl · 6 months

I believe this is from his old act, before he went through that whole transformation.

yeropinionman · 6 months

Yeah, this actually doesn't make sense. But Louis' job is to make people laugh, so who cares?

DetonateHere · 6 months

WTF is up with his pinkey?...

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