• Pogbom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeahhh but when the race you’re making fun of isn’t threatened, doesn’t face any meaningful discrimination, and pretty much runs the world, I think it’s safe to make fun of us.

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      1 year ago

      Either race-tinged observational jokes can be funny if good spirited (I subscribe to this view) or they should be considered poor taste 100% of the time. (That’s fine too)

      But this self-flogging “lol but it’s ok to be racist against people that look like me because the stereotype is some bad people also look like me, so I totally deserve it based on my ancestry, right guys?” Schtick isn’t good for anybody.

      (Unless you literally don’t face any injustice on your way to running the world, then I totally misunderstood lol.)

      But the idea that you should denigrate yourself to appease others’ misguided hatred of your racial “impurity” is…the exact concept we want to eradicate isn’t it?

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          1 year ago

          ez block, racism in any direction is wrong, even if casual, convenient, or seeming to you without harm.

          You absolutely meant to offend me, using a race based remark, with that one.

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              1 year ago

              Feel free, no worries. I just don’t use racism as a joke and call it out when I see it. any color.