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Is racism funny?

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Submissiveiendencies · 18-21

Lets bring back Archie Bunker.

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sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

No, not even I little bit. 😠

AlchemyFox · 36-40, F

No, I don't think it is.

My dad was racist and I remember him ruthlessly laughing at his own jokes. He got fired after 30+ years teaching for making sexist jokes to his female students in his automotive class.

I don't find racist satire funny either. Maybe if it wasn't still an issue. I just feel there's still people out there fighting this crap while others just laugh it off. I don't think it requires a certain sense of humor, I think it requires a bit of ignorance and lack of empathy to joke about something that ruined people's lives and gets the killed to this day.

wildbill83 · 36-40, M

whose funnier?

Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, etc. or people that think racial jokes are offensive? 🤔

DragonFruit · 61-69, M

No, it isn’t funny at all.

specman · 51-55, M

I have seen a lot of black comedians make a living off telling racist jokes. So I think a lot of blacks think racist jokes are funny. They seem to laugh a lot at jokes aimed at white people.

Sidewinder · 36-40, M

@specman And their own kind, too, sometimes, which coincides with self-deprecating humor. Which goes to show, that there are those who are indiscriminately willing to poke fun at anybody.

specman · 51-55, M

@Sidewinder I see more of them make comments about white people.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

It can be funny from a ridiculous point of view when looking at racists and their logic. It's never funny to the victims.

Sidewinder · 36-40, M

Depends on what your sense of humor is like.

SkeetSkeet · 100+, F

The crackers on this site are unhinged

deadgerbil · 22-25

@SkeetSkeet where have you been,,,

SkeetSkeet · 100+, F

@deadgerbil work,,,

deadgerbil · 22-25

@SkeetSkeet any cracked out people this time?

scooogy · 31-35, MVIP

I guess if you can change details about targets and it's still funny, I woildn't say it's as rude as jokes specifically made about certain people.

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

No never.

Racist jokes need to be called out they are not funny and only perpetuate ingrained and generational racism.

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

You people take yourselves waaay too seriously. Or you're insecure about your race

Zaphod42 · 46-50, M

Nope. Unless it’s my gf and I poking fun at each other that is.

DiegoWolfe · 36-40

Racism is as funny as a plague

AJS30 · 31-35, M

Yes or it can be.

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

It can be. Look at Blazing Saddles. That movie did a lot to demonstrate how ridiculous racism is using satire and comedy.

I'm awfully purist when it comes to comedy--potentially anything is funny.

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uncalled4 · 56-60, M

@Sidewinder I always enjoyed the big Panavision frame and was delighted when it was released letterboxed in the 80s(or possibly 90s).

Sidewinder · 36-40, M

@uncalled4 I meant "defying convention" in how it begins as yet another run-of-the-mill western, then breaking the convention of the genre by adding in deliberate anachronisms, ("Wide World of sports," Medieval hangman, Bikers in a lineup with banditos, Nazis and Klansmen, etc) Crude humor, (Beans and flatulence,) and fourth wall breaks. The biggest one being the camera pullback in the brawl scene that reveals the town to be a set on a studio lot and the fight extending beyond it into other sets, the studio commissary and the Chinese Theatre.