Hasan Minhaj Meant Something to Brown Americans. Was It All an Act?

Hasan Minhaj is the front-runner to be the next host of The Daily Show .

The New Yorker published an exposé of the renowned Indian American comedian.

He's accused of fostering a hostile workplace for female staffers of his show, the critically acclaimed Patriot Act .

Frida Ghitis: The revelation spurred complex, layered conversations about the necessity of strict factuality in emotive storytelling.

Minhaj was a rare public figure who could be a high-profile voice for our fears.

He could get people in the highest levels of society to hear and pass on his onstage and offstage anecdotes about how Trump’s Islamophobia -fueled rise affected him and his family directly, as it did ours.

He never even hinted that he was doing a character, or giving voice to stories he’d heard from others.