Students Walk Out on Jerry Seinfeld's Duke Commencement Speech

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8. He said that privilege (like being a Duke graduate) these days seems to be the worst thing

you can have and wants to defend it. Use it! Because of the long history of Jewish comedy, Jerry's privilege was being a Jewish comedian: if he messed up a funny story when he was young, his relatives would tell him how the joke should go. We're embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.