Actually, I finally saw the thing people complained about. I thought it was like a 30 - 60 minute preview where they take a pull quote out of context. That isn’t what happened. The interview was supposed to be cut up and released in chunks, like many interviews out there (i.e. Tune in tomorrow for part 2 of our interview with such and such.) So no, the quote was not out of context, but part of a 6 minute portion, with a very short intro by Noir. But it wasn’t directly “used” to attack anyone or really directed at any one. Noir’s intro did have some direction, so one could blame him, but even if you watched the 6min section and not the whole thing, I think you have to really stretch to reach this conclusion.
He got a lot of unfair criticism for this forcing him to make some back tracking. It is like people pulled the quote from the interview and got upset about it.
I am going to assume this was just a typo on your part and you did watch the whole thing. I have listened twice and I don’t recall any part of the 6min or 45 min video referencing BLM. There was a reference of the upcoming Parkland march, which Mike did make a glib comment about. IMHO after watching it all, I don’t feel his comments should have taken as much heat, but whatever, YMMV.
While he acknowledged in the interview that he doesn’t agree with everything the NRA does, if the NRA was as racists in their rhetoric as some people claim, why do you think he would appear on one of their channels? Even if he was friends with Noir he could have said, “Hey man, I want to do this with you, but we gotta do it on my show.” He doesn’t strike me as a person willing to put up with too much racist bullshit. Though he does list some occasions where the NRA could do better. He lists even MORE occasions where the white liberal progressive allies could do better. So are the Democrats as racist as the NRA because they don’t do as much as they could for black rights?
Maybe they are more Pro-Rights talking points. What 2 or 3 points did you most disagree with? Where there any you did agree with?
Except he wasn’t shilling. As he said, he sees them as an ally. That doesn’t mean they have to be best friends, but they agree on a common issue.
