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One could also argue that your examples of crass humor normalize these stereotypes, and therefore perpetuate them. If I were to constantly make jokes about how
by ewoodrich 13y ago
One could also argue that your examples of crass humor normalize these stereotypes, and therefore perpetuate them.
If I were to constantly make jokes about how black people were all burglars and rapists, and women should spend all day in the kitchen, at some point I might blur the line between irony and implicitly endorsing the generalization.
I don't claim that I haven't made the types of jokes you describe, but at the same time, I don't consider it "cowardly" that some find such jokes categorically offensive
- rimantas 13y agoI also do not consider anyone finding some jokes offencive as cowardly person, just a stupid one.
- ewoodrich 13y agoSo just to be clear, literally no joke can be offensive? I guess I'm stupid then, because I have fairly high tolerance of irony, but I would never such a sweeping claim.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoThat sounds like a challenge to me. Let's start with your Mom...
- coldtea 13y ago>One could also argue that your examples of crass humor normalize these stereotypes, and therefore perpetuate them. There is an external world were jokes are based on. The external world CAN change and jokes can change with it. Thinking that jokes "perpetuate" what's happening in the external world is like thinking that movies, songs or video games do. I don't see all the racist pre-Civil war jokes preventing the end of slavery. Or blackface preventing the civil rights movement.