At a certain point, you have to ask: Is a slightly more sophisticated version of a COD player calling everyone else a fag really where I want to stake my claim? — csalisbury
What this response ignores in my opinion is that being funny and being the underdog are deeply, deeply linked.
If you are not the underdog, there is nothing unspeakable for you
What's the non-naive understanding of white people and power? — csalisbury
I guess I don't see that as an underdog/overdog thing. It's an ethos thing. And a public/private thing. There are certain taboos in any culture. Both wealthy people and poor people, with our ethos, suffer repercussions if they say racist things in public, so they generally don't (Even Donald trump wouldn't say nigger right? & Mel Gibson did his time etc. etc.)If you like, csal, you are the underdog if you discover anything unspeakable, because if you weren't, your opinion would determine, implicitly or explicitly, what is unspeakable and what is not.
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