I'm not sure that's true <edit, snipped out a preface I had about my not-racist self, as after writing the whole comment I don't think I need to fear looking li

I'm not sure that's true <edit, snipped out a preface I had about my not-racist self, as after writing the whole comment I don't think I need to fear looking like a racist justifying their jokes, though perhaps I will look like someone who can't write a funny joke> A joke about racism could be in the form of a story where "Person A says racist thing (that we don't get to hear), then Person B hits them". Sure, that's nowhere near funny enough to be called a joke, but it is simultaneously about racism while surely not being remotely racist? I appreciate that a lot of the time people will define a joke as "about racism" while ignoring the fact that it ALSO contained racism - after all, if the actual racism in the joke isn't funny then why are you making the joke be about racism at all? - but I've definitely heard off-hand jokes that were about racism without having any racism in them (either in content or intent). Not to mention that if you make a joke about racism that gets directed against your own race, it's hard to see many people viewing that joke as racist in itself.