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Is it really humourous if you're not already racist/misogynist though?
by ranger_danger 10mo ago
Is it really humourous if you're not already racist/misogynist though?
- Forgeties79 10mo agoI’d say people fall somewhere in between 0% and 100% bigoted and what they will tolerate/laugh at can be incredibly nuanced. Nobody is actually 0% or 100% racist but I generally consider myself “not bigoted” in a broad sense. Everyone is of course carrying some bigoted opinion(s) though, it’s unavoidable. But back to the point: I’d say I am by and large not particularly bigoted. Still, I’d be lying if I said I have never laughed at off-color jokes. No matter how progressive or anti-racist you are something is going to break through. That is what makes it such a powerful tool for less scrupulous actors. You find what a person or community is willing to tolerate, then you either peel off people in private or push boundaries out loud and slowly drive a wedge into the community.
- malfist 10mo ago"I was just joking" is the excuse you tell yourself to say those hateful things and to escape consequences. Just look at Trump "joking" about canceling the election. It's a "joke" so there are no consequences, but where's the damn punch line?
- jacquesm 10mo agoThe punch line may well be that he wasn't joking after all.
- munk-a 10mo agoHe really needs better writers then - that punch line is lame enough to fail the bar for even late night shows.
- SideburnsOfDoom 10mo agoHe does not joke. I don't think that he knows how.
- cheschire 10mo agoThere is a well known connection between humor and fear. One does not need to feel racist notions to feel fear about, and therefore laugh at racism.
- dyauspitr 10mo agoYes. I remember there was a whole phase of a meme of a black person in a suit with the tag “how I saw black people before 4chan” and some horribly racist after picture.