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Looking back 30 years later, it’s really hard to understand. If it was today, it would barely be a blip.


I would even bet if it happened on an SNL today, it would have been met with applause.


That's just because the mores of society have changed.

I can think of dozens of true statements that if spoken on a show like Saturday Night Live would led to a performer being banned.


Here's an SNL clip from way back where Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor trade racial slurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

I'm not a big fan of the whole, "you couldn't do that today", but you sure couldn't do that today. I think you weren't supposed to do it then either which made it subversive comedy.


>That's just because the mores of society have changed.

And the huge amounts of research that shined the light on the Catholic church's culture of preying and assaulting children and then covering it up.

It took quite a heroic effort to bring the Catholic church's crimes to light and she was speaking about something the media wasn't comfortable or willing to report on.


It's not hard to understand. I remember when it happened, and I remember thinking "publicity stunt". I wouldn't hold that against her--that's show business. Sometimes you eat the nipple and sometimes the nipple eats you.


We all thought that, because we did not realize at the time how corrupt the abusive the catholic church was.

What she did was real bravery to stand in the face of so much opposition and mockery from us at the time.

It seems for some people they are still from that time.




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