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After activist Suey Park launched #CancelColbert on Thursday, March 27 after the program tweeted a joke from the parody show that was taken out of context, Stephen Colbert used his Monday night show to respond to the trending hashtag.

Monday night, Colbert opened his show with a montage of Comedy Central shutting down "The Colbert Report," until we find out it was all a dream, according to Huffington Post.

"We almost lost me. I'm never going to take me for granted ever again…the interweb tried to swallow me whole…The dark forces' attempt to silence my message of core conservative principles mixed with youth friendly product placement have been thwarted." 

Taking his show a bit more seriously, Colbert addresses the situation. "When I saw the tweet with no context, I understand how people were offended," he said. In order to keep this sort of outrage from happening again, Colbert asked Twitter founder Biz Stone to remove @ColbertReport forever.

He also asked anyone who might be threatening Park to stop, since she has received a large amount of threats since creating the hashtag. After responding to #CancelColbert, viewers took to Twitter to share their voices on response.

The tweet that started all of the controversy, which has since been deleted said, "I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," a line from a bit that satirized Washington Reskins owner Dan Snyder for creating a foundation to support Native Americans. 

Now we all can understand that Colbert is simply taking precautions by deleting the Twitter account, but was it really necessary? Many can understand that his show is a parody, and things can always be taken out of context, whether it be on a verified Twitter account of something else. 

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