When its done for comedy its not racism, when its done for hate then you have racism.
When its done for comedy its not racism, when its done for hate then you have racism.
Occasionally people will get to comedy via hatred. Jokes will often come out of people's shared hatred of a group (blacks, gays, republicans, Mexicans, IRS agents). The question is whether the joke is at the expense of the race in question or other racists -- in other words, ironic and self-aware.Originally Posted by Infernus
But even that's not simple, because you might think you're making, for instance, gay jokes ironically, all the while seriously emotionally hurting someone who has to hear them. EVEN IF he or she knows you don't mean it, it is still hurtful. So you have to be in a situation where you can trust that your audience will receive it as intended. Which doesn't mean censoring yourself, or refraining from pushing boundaries, but it means tailoring your comedy so it is not at the expense of anyone who might suffer from it.
For example, this can mean viciously tearing apart those in the majority or who are better advantage (e.g. Christians, white people, men, rich people) while treading sensitively on jokes at the expense of minorities or the disadvantaged (e.g. gays, blacks, women, poor people).
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Racism was funny back then.
It isn't now.
Last edited by ShitFace; 02-29-2012 at 08:57 AM.
Andy says:
prince of persia is more skill than hack and slash
ShitFace says:
i dont think skill is a genre of game lol
Andy says:
of course it is you have seen the crystal maze havnt you?
he says what next a skill physical mental?
Blind people don't see black, they see the same thing you see out of your elbow - VengfulScars
I think racism is funny...
On topic, of course this isn't racist. Using Dave Chappelle as an example, if he had impersonated Frank Sinatra by dressing in 'whiteface', then made the exact same joke, nobody anywhere would be saying anything about it. If anything is racist about all of this it is the fact that everyone is calling it racist.
The problem is that dressing up in "blackface" is analogous to using the word "nigger" because they both have a tarred history of being used to opress black people. But, of course, there's a difference between wearing make up to impesonate a pop culture figure of a different ethnicity and "cooning up" like Amos and freakin' Andy.
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