i'm not for shock for its own sake, but if this is where he is, and what he finds interesting and funny, go with it. if he's truly behind the times his career will die a slow death

What he needs to NOT do is try to cater his act to where other people say it needs to be, or worry about if he's upsetting this tribe to much or appealing to that tribe too much, That's all noise.

meaning I haven't paid attention to any articles or takes outside of this post or my own friends, but I'm willing to guess the fox folks or twats like ben shapiro will be championing this because they get off on anything that triggers liberals, and that the woke twitter/thinkpiece crowd will be reacting as expected.