Of course the people who are asking you to explain are really just making the point that the only real joke here is "Chinese people look funny". If you don't believe that then you won't find this "joke" funny.
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Replying to @Chris_Hubris @BorisBorisxl and
That's not the joke, the joke is the absurd caricature and the other things I mentioned. He caricatured 5 different cultures. Including the british.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorisBorisxl and
The "absurd character" is a well established racist stereotype.
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Replying to @Chris_Hubris @BorisBorisxl and
A caricature. Similar to any caricature.
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Replying to @StaringMary @Chris_Hubris and
Yes but caricatures carry racial and nationalist themes which are loaded with bigotry and xenophobia.
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Replying to @BorrowUsernames @Chris_Hubris and
Not necessarily. You are making that insinuation. My point is that you can mock and caricature without sincerely believing someone is inferior to you. But as you said before you believe humour must have criticism in it, which I do not believe. So we disagree on this point.
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Replying to @StaringMary @Chris_Hubris and
Mocking literally means that you think something is inferior. The humor that Crowder is "attempting" is to juxtapose those of different nationalities/races with "normal" people (white americans) through implication.
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Replying to @BorrowUsernames @StaringMary and
Also you can't shrug off the moral implications of something just by saying "I don't believe that's wrong". It's kinda ironic, because cons like you hate "postmodern moral relativism", when what you're espousing is pretty much just a crappier version of it.
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Replying to @BorrowUsernames @Chris_Hubris and
Murdering someone to steal from them, we can agree, is easily morally wrong. Championing your nation before other nations in your foreign and domestic policy is not so cut and dry morally. There is an argument to be made on either side.
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Replying to @StaringMary @Chris_Hubris and
By that logic, what makes racism morally wrong? It's not murdering someone to steal from them, it's just holding one set of people more valuable than the other, like nationalism. The issue is that nationalism, is an in-group-outgroup mentality, what you'd call "collectivism".
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Nobody chooses to be born in one particular nation or another. There's a bit of immigration, sure, but not everybody has that privilege, and not everyone shares your opinion that your country's the best. In fact, the majority of people don't. People often like their own country.
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