"The general consensus is, 'How dare you go to that place and make those oppressed people laugh, you fucking piece of shit. I can't believe you went to that place. I can't find it on a map, and this bot said I was upset about it, so now I am,' Burr said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "It's one thing to wear clothes made by sweatshop labor. It's quite another to go to the factory and make 'em laugh.""
""Jesus Christ, we're fucking grabbing moms and dads and sticking 'em in a van for making illegally made fucking tacos to go to alligator Alcatraz," he said. "It's fucking insane... Someday, they're gonna be out of brown people to put in those vans. They're still gonna have the vans, so you shouldn't be feeling comfortable about it. Thinking that you're not gonna be in it.""
Bill Burr defended performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rejected criticism, saying he does not care about the backlash and blaming bots for inflaming outrage. He described critics as parroting automated sentiment and contrasted making Saudis laugh with buying sweatshop-made clothes. Burr echoed comparisons to Saudi restrictions by warning that U.S. free-speech and enforcement trends are moving in that direction, citing aggressive immigration enforcement as an example. He attacked fellow comedians as sanctimonious for criticizing him, invoked Western brands as normalizing influences, and referenced prior criticism for a performance in Abu Dhabi.
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