Is not being allowed to attack someone symptomatic of being in a position of power over them?
Anyway, the point was just that you said the video was funny because of its being flippant and cute with something unspeakable, but the unspeakability is what is important here.
I'm going to suggest that the reason you don't find it funny is that you are the overdog and hence feel threatened by it. *shrug* — The Great Whatever
Couldn't you flip this and say the taboo on racial slurs is an expression of white racial security? — csalisbury
Imagine a subtly abusive husband who fucks with his wife in subtle ways but acts calm and in control while she launches insult after insult, and he remains respectful (especially when he's talking about her in public) — csalisbury
I don't think it's as simple as the image, but it's also not as simple as whites under the heavy thumb of pc speech-policing. — csalisbury
See... that's political, not comedy. Supposedly, there is this grave double standard in how racism is treated. How unjust you cry. What could be funnier than seeing those people ignorant of racism against white people ground into the dust? — TheWillowOfDarkness
No doubt, but that's to be expected here. "Comedy" is heavily tied into expressing political power. One laughs at the failure, stupidity, pain or inferiority of their opponents as rhetoric. You are (sometimes) laughing not because what you've seen is really funny, but because it hurts those who you disagree with. What could be better than taking down those ignorant students of Western hegemony? — TheWillowOfDarkness
]There's some serious metaphysical juju going on in trying to transmogrify your very genes into pure evil."
I think that comedy is deeper than that, but okay. — The Great Whatever
Yes Europeans are made up of many ethnic groups, but each of these are more closely related than sub-Saharan African ethnic subgroups, and so on — The Great Whatever
Your arguments seemed to suggest that people are mistaken for arguing racism only applies to white people. You have sympathy for the alt-right because, on some level, you think they are unjustly treated. Supposedly, we don't let them claim their homeland like any other ethnic group. — TheWillowOfDarkness
A lot of the time (hopefully), it is. My point is that it's quite sometimes not. People laugh to assert hierarchy, to bask in a victory over an opponent. I'm saying that you seem to fall into this a lot-- where comedy is reduced to nothing more than upsetting the powerful. — TheWillowOfDarkness
I mean, you understand that people who originate from different parts of the world look different, right? — The Great Whatever
You mean like how Northern Europeans look different than Southern Europeans? What about red head, freckled Irish people with their light skin? Are they more white than someone from Romania? — Marchesk
Yes, Europeans are different from each other, but they are more different from Africans. — The Great Whatever
People were white before and after slavery, and being white isn't defined in terms of being evil. — The Great Whatever
Postmodernism alert! — Thorongil
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