saying something this edgy does not absolve you of bigotry

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I imagine so but personally I prefer people being a little cringe but accepting critiques of white supremacy to people who get knee jerk angry and take it personally (and often go mask off being kinda racist). I mean the amount of times I’ve seen “you leftists made me hate black people!!” Bc of some light ribbing of white people is wild.

    And I personally don’t love this growing sentiment of being really adverse to white jokes bc I’ve seen it preamble some shift to more reactionary community culture when it comes to the discussion of whiteness.

    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      I mean the amount of times I’ve seen “you leftists made me hate black people!!” Bc of some light ribbing of white people is wild.

      I have seen this too and obviously that doesn’t fly. I’m not convinced any of those people were left to begin with though. At best amenable to it

      I like ribbing and taking the piss. I think it can be funny and in good taste. It’s just a very different vibe when, say, a black stand comedian has a bit about white people doing such and such than when this website (that is maybe 80-90% white) posts threads like “IMMEDIATE GENOCIDE OF ALL KKKRAKKKERS NOW”. I think the former can be really funny, but the latter comes off as… weird, at best. A lot of the time it doesn’t even have the structure of a joke. There’s no punchline. Compare that even to took-restraint, where there is a setup and a payoff. I think that meme is pretty funny, and at this point, a more accurate lampooning of some people than I ever expected before.