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“Female comedians remember Joan Rivers: The one who led the way”

Take a good look at that photoset.

Sarah Silverman, uses blackface in her ‘comedy’.

Lena Dunham, completely ignores WoC- unless mocking Muslim women- in her ‘comedy’.

Ellen DeGeneres, “dresses up” as Nicki Minaj in a hypersexualized, anti-Black costume

Amy Schumer, builds her stand-up on lines like “I used to date latino men, but now I prefer consensual!”

Kathy Griffin, wears costumes featuring appropriated war bonnets

And those are just examples off of the top of my head. I know all of these women have made countless racist, transmisogynistic remarks in the name of ‘comedy’.

So yeah, Joan Rivers did lead the way for them. She let a generation of white/white-passing cis women know that ‘Hey, I made a career out of being a vile racist, transmisogynist, abuse apologist- and you can too!’