In a new 20-minute video, Minhaj claims the ‘New Yorker’ piece that accused him of lying in his comedy contains “omissions and factual errors.”
and later shared on his social media platforms—the comedian claims that the piece fact-checking his work was “needlessly misleading” and omitted statements and corroborating messages he’d allegedly provided the publication during the reporting process.
“With everything that’s happening in the world, I’m aware even talking about this now feels so trivial,” Minhaj says in the video. “But being accused of ‘faking racism’ is not trivial. It’s very serious, and it demands an explanation. So to everyone who read that article I want to answer the biggest question that’s probably on your mind: Is Hasan Minhaj secretly a psycho? … Because after reading that article, I would also think that.
Minhaj claims that his would-be prom date’s mother really did say that they couldn’t go together because the family didn’t want a “brown boy” in their photos. He also provides emails and text messages between himself and “Bethany” that he allegedly provided tosaid in a statement, “Hasan Minhaj confirms in this video that he selectively presents information and embellishes to make a point: exactly what we reported.
“I just want to say to anyone who felt betrayed or hurt by my stand-up, I am sorry I made artistic choices to express myself and drive home larger issues affecting me and my community, and I feel horrible that I let people down,” Minhaj says in the video. “The reason I feel horrible is because I’m not a psycho. But thisIt was so needlessly misleading, not just about my stand-up, but also about me as a person. The truth is, racism, FBI surveillance and the threats to my family happened.
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