Chelsea Handler - 'My White Privilege Makes Me Feel Very Gross’

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“I just started to think about all the privilege I’ve benefited from in this industry, specifically — being a Jew is a bonus, being a girl as comedian when I was coming up. I had every advantage. Every door opened for me,” she said of the inspiration for the project. “When I started to look around at people that don’t have as successful of a career or are working twice as hard to achieve the same things, I started to feel very gross about myself. On a very fundamental level, I wanted to explore it further … [starting] with my own white privilege. I’ve been badly behaved for 20 years and getting tons of money thrown at me for being a loudmouth. You could say I’m talented, but you could also say I’m not talented.

Handler also talked politics in general, describing it as a “depressing” time. She touched on Trump’s 60 Minutes interview (“I find it really, really unsettling that that’s the president of our country”) then discussed the controversial appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “For it to happen is just representative of white male power to me,” she said. “It just looks like a bunch of older white turtles and men who are 85-plus, saying, ‘Women, you don’t get a voice.’ And we have to say no to

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