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> even there one hears racist jokes in talk shows. I believe grouping racist jokes together with real racism (real hatred, discrimination, violence) is a strat
by qwerty456127 4y ago
> even there one hears racist jokes in talk shows.
I believe grouping racist jokes together with real racism (real hatred, discrimination, violence) is a strategic mistake. This silently replaces non-racism with political correctness. A diverse society can live in harmony with racist jokes laughing at themselves and their pals. A society standing on political correctness can be full of hypocrisy, prejudice and hatred.
> Russians are the big brother.
They sort of are, from the economical point of view, but that, allegorically, is a wicked abusive big brother (or cousin perhaps) nobody wants to maintain family ties, let alone live in one house with. Even in real life a younger sibling may happen to be a much nicer person and the elder sibling doesn't have right to keep the younger by force when he wants to move away.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThinking jokes can't be part of "real racism" or that you can draw a clear, distinct and universal line between the two is absolutely foolish. When you look at the worst genocidal atrocities in history or the present world, they don't come out of nowhere. And a gradually escalating normalization of mockery and othering is a clear part of that pattern time and time again. It's not that all racial jokes are terrible on the same level as the worst things you can do here, but when you look at situations where the worst things are happening, the jokes are too and they always came first.