saying something this edgy does not absolve you of bigotry

  • 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.