Hasan Minhaj - Liar, Not a Victim

OLD, BUSTED: Fake but accurate.

NEW HOTNESS: "Emotional truth" https://t.co/cm0BAGDebK

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 17, 2023

From Breitbart:

Comedian Hasan Minhaj has admitted to inventing several first-person tales of facing discrimination — including a racist attack on his daughter — that undergird his standup comedy act and his politically-themed TV show.

...Minhaj relays several stories during his show. To name a few, he has claimed that a white girl refused to go to a high school homecoming dance with him, tells the tale of a “brother Eric” who infiltrated a mosque for the FBI, and even told the harrowing tale of an envelope with “white powder” in it spilling all over his daughter.

He also tells the story of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner arrogantly sitting in a chair reserved for a formerly imprisoned Saudi activist at a Time 100 gala in 2019. He now admits that never happened.

At long last, Minhaj has admitted that none of these stories of discrimination ever happened, though he tells them on stage and on TV as if they are real.

In an interview with the New Yorker, Minhaj explained that he tells all these false stories for “emotional truth” and that none of them really happened to him.

.@NolteNC: Hasan Minhaj’s lies are a violation of comedic tradition. He’s not a comedian spinning an anecdote or universal truth into gold. He's a bully abusing his status to puff himself up as a virtuous victim at the expense of other people, real people. https://t.co/6ZfnsH2rbC

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 18, 2023

John Nolte writes:

“Comedian” Hasan Minhaj’s lies are nothing close to the hyperbole and exaggeration we expect in the comedic trade.

This toxic liar uses fake anecdotes for something more than laughs. Laughs are his secondary goal. His primary goal is to smear Americans as racist, including specific individuals (like a white girl who did not stand him up for homecoming), as he paints himself as a righteous crusader and victim.

...Hasan Minhaj is a bully abusing his status to puff himself up as a virtuous victim at the expense of other people, real people—including all Americans.

The good news is this…

Minhaj is in the market for examples of American racism, and there’s so little of it he has to invent it.

That’s how great the American people are and what a vile, sniveling, lying sack of cruelty Minhaj is.

Minhaj's manipulation of his alleged "seed of truth" has had real-life painful consequences for his victims.

Example:

[S]ome of the people he mentions in his act have tried to get him to stop using their names and stories, but Minhaj has ignored their requests.

The “white girl” who supposedly left him standing at her front door and ditched him for homecoming, for instance, says that no such incident ever occurred and that she had turned him down many days before when he first asked her to the dance. She also says that she and her family frequently face online attacks when Minhaj fans link her real identity to the fake anecdote.

Minhaj crafts lies that harm real people. That's not being a comic. That's being a jerk.