Amy Schumer Not Backing Down From Race-Related Material Despite Critics

“And then I thought, ‘Well, I could give everyone I love a job and we could all be together for five years, ’” Schumer explained. I am a devout feminist and lover of all people.

A lot of people have asked me if I meant to kind of flip the gender roles like I’m playing the guy, and that’s not been my experience at all. Everyone knows that you joke about race and you’r not a racist.

“I am a comic”, the statement began. Schumer’s response does not mention the article directly, but cites the same quote about a “blind spot”. It is a joke and it is amusing. I know that because people laugh at it. Even if you personally didn’t.

Amy Schumer isn’t afraid to speak her mind.

Schumer stars on the big screen opposite Bill Hader in the comedy film Trainwreck, opening nationwide July 17.

Schumer also recently responded on Twitter to a similarly critical article from the Daily Beast, which said she “is being called subversive and transgressive, the truth is that many of her jokes aren’t as enlightened as they might seem”.

“Put down your torches before reading this so you don’t catch on fire”, Schumer writes in the caption of the note. I ask you to resist the urge to pick me apart.

“I was so honored to be asked and considered”. Trust me. I am not a racist. “But picturing being in a building and knowing what I was going to do for five years – I love not knowing”, Schumer said. “My fight is for all people to be treated equally”. Sincerely, Amy (a dirty half-Jew).”And this is where the modern issue of analytical equality and the art of comedy clash”.

The Guardian article dissecting Schumer’s comedy – from her numerous viral sketches to her stand-up material – took shots at the comedian for for characterizing Latina women as “crazy” while making “lazy jokes” during her MTV Movie Awards hosting gig, and wading “into racial territory tactlessly and with no apparent larger point” during stand-up shows.