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minus-squareASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·7 months agoAs a white person, I am authorising and allowing this joke to be made, and I am retracting and removing any racism labels associated or attached to it. You’re welcome!
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·7 months agoSo one person of another race could “clear” a joke against their race? Obviously not.
minus-squareASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·7 months agoAs a comedian, I am writing you referral for your doctor for a humor-transfusion. Any of the four will do.
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoI get no one address with me here but I stand by it: If you can’t make the joke about another race, you shouldn’t make it about any race. Imagine suggesting a place is a “black nature preserve”. 100% inappropriate, therefore the joke is inherently racist
minus-squareA7thStone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI see, so context has no meaning, except when it means everything.
As a white person, I am authorising and allowing this joke to be made, and I am retracting and removing any racism labels associated or attached to it.
You’re welcome!
So one person of another race could “clear” a joke against their race? Obviously not.
As a comedian, I am writing you referral for your doctor for a humor-transfusion. Any of the four will do.
I get no one address with me here but I stand by it:
If you can’t make the joke about another race, you shouldn’t make it about any race.
Imagine suggesting a place is a “black nature preserve”. 100% inappropriate, therefore the joke is inherently racist
I see, so context has no meaning, except when it means everything.