“Ironic racism” is still just racism. Honestly I have way more respect for people willing to look me in the face and call me a ni**er than this coy playful “we’re just joking lol” shit.
They repeated that joke to an outspoken black guy complaining about this post being a racist meme posted by a racist person on Twitter in the first place.
When someone is bothered by a racist joke you don’t get to chime in and say it wasn’t really racist and explain that their feelings and life experiences are wrong.
I explained the joke. Not your feelings. If someone is making enemies out of allies, I will chime in. If you’re not a fan of dark humor, just ignore it.
It’s not dark humor. It’s racist humor. Yes, it offends black people. Yes, the original meme posted offends Muslims. Not all black people, not all Muslims, but not all of a group needs to speak up and say they’re universally offended by a racist thing for it to be wrong.
You’re now basically telling me that I’m thin skinned and should just ignore racist jokes on Lemmy so you can all giggle at them.
It’s ironic as hell that the responses I’ve gotten in here have been the ones I’d have expected from a Republican Convention. Not folks who like to think of themselves as caring and accepting and against racism and homophobia.
I’m not telling you to ignore racist jokes, but I will tell you that you are thin skinned. This is a media literacy problem. If you break down the structure of the jokes, you’ll realize that they’re making fun of bigots, not minorities.
“Ironic racism” is still just racism. Honestly I have way more respect for people willing to look me in the face and call me a ni**er than this coy playful “we’re just joking lol” shit.
That joke isn’t racist. It’s making fun of how cops are racist and 40 percent of cop families are involved in domestic violence reports.
They repeated that joke to an outspoken black guy complaining about this post being a racist meme posted by a racist person on Twitter in the first place.
Neither one of those jokes are racist. The first one is lampshading the flimsy logic racists use. The butt of the joke are the racists.
When someone is bothered by a racist joke you don’t get to chime in and say it wasn’t really racist and explain that their feelings and life experiences are wrong.
I explained the joke. Not your feelings. If someone is making enemies out of allies, I will chime in. If you’re not a fan of dark humor, just ignore it.
It’s not dark humor. It’s racist humor. Yes, it offends black people. Yes, the original meme posted offends Muslims. Not all black people, not all Muslims, but not all of a group needs to speak up and say they’re universally offended by a racist thing for it to be wrong.
You’re now basically telling me that I’m thin skinned and should just ignore racist jokes on Lemmy so you can all giggle at them.
It’s ironic as hell that the responses I’ve gotten in here have been the ones I’d have expected from a Republican Convention. Not folks who like to think of themselves as caring and accepting and against racism and homophobia.
I’m not telling you to ignore racist jokes, but I will tell you that you are thin skinned. This is a media literacy problem. If you break down the structure of the jokes, you’ll realize that they’re making fun of bigots, not minorities.
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