Straight white man Josh Denny does not like to be described as such.
The comedian and host of the Food Network's Ginormous Food posted a tweet on Friday saying the neutral description of his race, gender and sexuality has become the modern equivalent of a word associated with slavery, lynching and other crimes against humanity.
"It’s used to offend and diminish the recipient based on assumption and bias. No difference in the usage," said Denny.
Denny is standing up to those "attempting to devalue" his and other straight white male's opinions "based on negative cultural stereotypes." This, he said, is "racism"—the thing he and Dr. Martin Luther King both fight against.
Denny then proceeded to tweet @ Kanye West and debate the issue with his friend Ian Karmel, a fellow straight white male comedian who attempted to to gently correct Denny while taking the position that if Denny had a point originally he blew it with his rhetoric.
Following a bunch of angry responses, Denny said that he was trying to "attract people to the conversation" and that some of the things he wrote were "jokes."
