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scans_daily somebody posted a 90s comic satirizing Silver Age comic plotlines and attitudes.
there was also a fake PSA 'making fun' of the casually racist attitudes of the era.
I hope you didn't laugh at anything there, because if you did I'm going to have to punch you in the face and stop being your friend.
This is the absolute worst kind of racial 'humor.' Dear World: Spouting a bunch of exaggerated racist views and following that with a punchline like "but seriously, we're not racists, we're just kidding' IS NOT FUNNY. I guaran-fucking-tee there are a shitload of people out there who would read that strip and think it was a really fabulous way to bring cultures together, or who are laughing because hahahahaha those kids are eating dog meat, and black people looooooove jambolia!!! instead of hahahahaha those kids are so fucking stupid.
'But creators shouldn't be held accountable for the stupidity of their potential audience!' one might argue.
And I would tell you to sit down and shut the fuck up, because hiding behind misunderstood intentions is the coward's defense. First of all, 'this shit's crazy!' jokes are funny approximately never percent of the time. OBSERVE:
GUY: Oh wow, black people sure love grape soda, hahaha!
GUY 2: I can't believe you actually exist. That shit's crazy.
Did you laugh? Of course you didn't. It's debatable if that even qualifies as a joke, and yet so much racial humor is just a really long, exaggerated 'this shit's crazy!' statement. It isn't funny. It's fucking offensive.
If your humor relies on having the audience accept a premise as absurd/hilarious, it will fall apart if there are people who believe there's nothing inherently wrong with it. There are a whoooooole lot of people who accept racial stereotypes as partially or wholly true. There are a whole lot of people who have heard these stereotypes applied to them. The former will find you funny for all the wrong reasons, the latter will wonder what the hell is funny about seeing more of the racist behavior they deal with everyday.
If you want to challenge racial stereotypes, or make fun of the people who hold them, you can't just make outrageously racist statements, then point and laugh at yourself. That's lazy and stupid and utterly lacking in cleverness or wit. You are a terrible person who needs to go sit with Mr. But Some of My Best Friends are Nonwhite and That Guy Who Respects Women As Long As They Aren't Sluts, and hopefully you will all die in a fire.
THE END.
In other news, I have failed miserably at my goal of posting every day in June. In my defense, I was put on a new medication and went up in dosage on another one, and for the past week that one-two punch has left me feeling like ¯\(ºдಠ)/¯ this
but it's ok now
scans_daily somebody posted a 90s comic satirizing Silver Age comic plotlines and attitudes.there was also a fake PSA 'making fun' of the casually racist attitudes of the era.
I hope you didn't laugh at anything there, because if you did I'm going to have to punch you in the face and stop being your friend.
This is the absolute worst kind of racial 'humor.' Dear World: Spouting a bunch of exaggerated racist views and following that with a punchline like "but seriously, we're not racists, we're just kidding' IS NOT FUNNY. I guaran-fucking-tee there are a shitload of people out there who would read that strip and think it was a really fabulous way to bring cultures together, or who are laughing because hahahahaha those kids are eating dog meat, and black people looooooove jambolia!!! instead of hahahahaha those kids are so fucking stupid.
'But creators shouldn't be held accountable for the stupidity of their potential audience!' one might argue.
And I would tell you to sit down and shut the fuck up, because hiding behind misunderstood intentions is the coward's defense. First of all, 'this shit's crazy!' jokes are funny approximately never percent of the time. OBSERVE:
GUY: Oh wow, black people sure love grape soda, hahaha!
GUY 2: I can't believe you actually exist. That shit's crazy.
Did you laugh? Of course you didn't. It's debatable if that even qualifies as a joke, and yet so much racial humor is just a really long, exaggerated 'this shit's crazy!' statement. It isn't funny. It's fucking offensive.
If your humor relies on having the audience accept a premise as absurd/hilarious, it will fall apart if there are people who believe there's nothing inherently wrong with it. There are a whoooooole lot of people who accept racial stereotypes as partially or wholly true. There are a whole lot of people who have heard these stereotypes applied to them. The former will find you funny for all the wrong reasons, the latter will wonder what the hell is funny about seeing more of the racist behavior they deal with everyday.
If you want to challenge racial stereotypes, or make fun of the people who hold them, you can't just make outrageously racist statements, then point and laugh at yourself. That's lazy and stupid and utterly lacking in cleverness or wit. You are a terrible person who needs to go sit with Mr. But Some of My Best Friends are Nonwhite and That Guy Who Respects Women As Long As They Aren't Sluts, and hopefully you will all die in a fire.
THE END.
In other news, I have failed miserably at my goal of posting every day in June. In my defense, I was put on a new medication and went up in dosage on another one, and for the past week that one-two punch has left me feeling like ¯\(ºдಠ)/¯ this
but it's ok now
