1. Starting another twitter essay on humor boundaries riffing off this tweet from @JAMyerson https://twitter.com/JAMyerson/status/449576270742175744 …
@hoodedu Part of our disagreement is that I think racism extends far beyond ideologically committed racists.
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@HeerJeet I think that as well. That's part of why it's possible for a non-ideologically committed racist like Crumb to createThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet racist portrayals of black women. Nostalgia, desire, counercultural hi-jinks, can all be inflected with racism. And areThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet in Crumb's case.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet You can certainly find interest or insight in Crumb's depictions, as in Rudyard Kipling's.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet But portraying Crumb's racist depictions as anti-racist satire is pretty unconvincing, I think. -
@hoodedu Kipling was offering an ideology, Crumb is more interested in deconstructing his own racist social formation. Big difference. - Show replies
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