Jad Sleiman was a reporter for Philadelphia-based NPR member station WHYY, but he's also trying to break into the stand-up comedy business as a Muslim comic in his off hours.
If the recent past has taught us anything, it's that the new Left hates comedy, and belonging to a minority isn't going to save you from the woke barbarians (just ask Dave Chappelle).
So it's no surprise that Sleiman's stand-up side gig upended his day job. Last year, when NPR found clips of his standup comedy online, Sleiman got the boot.
Then they disparaged him in the news.
"When a news organization says you're a racist, bigot, whatever, people believe them," he said. "So it was a lot of abuse from a lot of people who have never met me, who've never seen my stand-up just saw what WHYY said about me, which is not great."
However, as a lesson to everyone getting the boot at these woke companies and organization, Sleiman fought back. Sleiman was a union member after all, and the collective bargaining agreement said that employment disputes had to be settled by an impartial arbitrator.
In the hearing, NPR made arbitrator Lawrence S. Coburn watch an hour of Sleiman's standup.
Unfortunately for NPR, the case was pretty much over when Coburn started laughing at his jokes.
In the end, the arbitrator ruled that WHYY had broken the labor agreement in firing him without due process or cause, but some of Sleiman's jokes crossed the line into "being inflammatory" and could cause the news program to look bad, so if he deleted nine jokes, the station had to give him his job back.
Even though Sleiman deleted the jokes from his social media, they were transcribed in the court documents (major language warning if you decide to read his jokes there).
Here are my favorites (edited for language):
Even the Woke People Kind of Hate Us
"Believe me, even woke people kind of hate Muslims don't they? Yup. 'Refugees are welcome… to start treating their women a little better.'
"Wait, it is true that like women are treated a little better in the west for a while. After like 35, 40, it gets pretty brutal, doesn't it?
"There's no retirement age for looking hot in the West. That's why you see American grandmas wearing makeup and s***. American women have to be as [attractive] as possible until they're dead, which I don't think is fair.
Y'all I want to start a rescue charity that helps women of a certain age move to Saudi Arabia. They're gonna be like, "What, I don't gotta to do botox or dye my hair?" I'm like, "Lady, you don't even gotta drive. In fact, yeah, they prefer you didn't."
Kind of Racist
I've decided I prefer, uh, "raghead terrorist" to "person of color." Please respect my identity. I work at one of these places that's so woke it's kinda racist. Like this lady asked my boss, she's like "Yo, does Jad consider himself a person of color?" Uh, because she was making a list of us. F****** hell? Sick alright. I get to be on in this lady's brown dude Pokedex, hell yeah. Here's the thing. It's weird being an Arab right now. America is so focused on race right now, but we don't fall in the big ones. Like we're not black and we're not really white. You know what I'm saying?
Like, I'll put it this way, after 9/11 we definitely weren't white and now that it sucks to be white, we're kinda slipping back into it. The hell, dude? Does Jad consider himself a person of color? I'm like, "I get a choice now, dude?" After 9/11 I didn't get to pick. Remember? You said you'd never forget.
Trump vs Muslims vs Jews
People say Trump hates Muslims. So do my parents. If you're not the same exact dumba** type of Muslim as they are, you might as well be Jewish. Which people say, people say, uh, Muslims hate Jews. It's more accurate to say, we're very afraid of them. They've been kicking our a** for, like, 70 years.
We gotta rethink that term homophobia, dude. Homophobia means you hate gay people. It doesn't mean homosexuals have defeated you in a dozen wars. The Jews finally stood up after centuries of persecution in Europe and somehow we got the a** whooping. What the hell, Jews, we weren't there dude. We cut our d**** off, same as y'all. I thought we was boys.
See?
He's funny.
The arbitrator made the right call giving him his job back, but making him take down these jokes is a travesty!
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