Richard Pryor Disproves Ben Carson’s Holocaust Comments

New Republic senior editor Jeet Heer made an interesting observation about one of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson‘s problematic comments this week. You know, when he suggested that armed Jews would have countered Nazi Germany before and during World War II. Turns out the late comedian Richard Pryor disproved Carson’s claim over 30 years before the latter made it.

Actor Seth Rogen and others have already sounded off on Carson’s suggestion, which was made during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. When the CNN anchor pressed Carson about comments he’d earlier made about the Oregon mass shooting, the armed-Jews-defeating-the-Nazis argument was made. Meanwhile, in a bit from his 1982 special Live on the Sunset Strip, Pryor wholeheartedly disagreed.

“Everybody likes to be brave in the real situation, but we ain’t so brave sometimes,” he told the audience. “Sometimes you’ll be brave, but most of the time you’re just ordinary.”

As an example, Pryor brought up the Nazis. He argued that, because of how most people actually act, “that’s how the Nazis fucked over people.”

“Most people are basically decent but the Nazis just ran over motherfuckers,” he said. “Black people said, ‘Fuck I would have told them…’ You wouldn’t have told them Nazis shit.”

Check out the clip above.

[h/t Jeet Heer]
[Image via screengrab]

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