Thinking 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

Thinking 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.