“[I]f you’re black and gay, you don’t need a straight South Asian guy to point out that your life is hard because you’re Black and gay,” wrote Columbia sophomore Liberty Martin in a Spectator op-ed. “I watched a brown man use the experiences of black people to make white people ponder and laugh while two of my gay Black friends cringed.” While Martin allows that “comedians should be allowed to tell jokes about different communities,” it’s hard to see under what circumstances such jokes would pass her purity test. In Patel’s case, she complains that the humor was “unoriginal”; why she thinks it was addressed solely to white people is unclear.