On his first episode after the shooting of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, Jon Stewart had pointed out that flying the Confederate flag in that state was an outdated and dystopic thing to do in 2015.
Wednesday night, he reported that the state had begun a process to remove it.
“Taking down the flag only 150 years after the South surrendered and 20 years after NASCAR did it, congratulations!” the host of “The Daily Show” said.
He found that it was getting harder to find defenders of pro-Confederate nostalgia.
Stewart did find one, who warned that once the flags are removed, it will be a “slippery slope” until Confederate monuments and statues are removed.
“Lemme explain to you how the ‘slippery slope’ argument usually works,” Stewart responded.
“Usually when you do the ‘slippery slope’ argument, you like to end it in something bad,” he said, to audience applause.
“So you don’t go like, ‘the next thing you know, black children won’t have to go to schools named after men who wouldn’t have allowed them to learn how to read!'” he said.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
