I don’t understand the joke. Could I ask you to please explain it?
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @stranded_360 and
Crowder was doing a "cultural appropriation month" event on his podcast, in which he dressed up as a caricature of various cultures as a sort of festive introduction. He did Mexico, china, africa, the middle east and britain.
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Replying to @BorrowUsernames @BorisBorisxl and
Perhaps a different context will make it easier to understand. Imagine a caricature of a fat businessman chomping on a cigar. The gag is in the caricature. If it offends you, you will struggle to find it amusing, though with crowder I suspect the offense is part of it.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorisBorisxl and
A caricature of a "fat businessman chomping on a cigar" is a critique of those with extreme wealth. What exactly is a caricature of a "Chinese man with bucked teeth and big glasses" supposed to be critiquing, exactly?
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Replying to @BorrowUsernames @BorisBorisxl and
Well if you will indulge me I will explain further. Firstly a caricature is not merely funny as a critique, it is also a funny absurd stereotype, visually and conceptually.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
You are applying your own perspective here, when you require that there be a critique you find politically acceptable. Someone else may find the representation of a stereotype of another, or indeed their own culture, as being amusing in its absurdity.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
However this is not the extent of the gag, as the context is crowder's "cultural appropriation month" this is his satirizing of the concept of cultural appropriation. He is doing so with the understanding that these caricatures would be considered offensive by the overly sensitiv
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
So in that context he is making some sort of critique, albeit a limited one, but it is of the viewer. Lastly, these are very short intro gags, they are not heavily involved they are really just him dressing in costume.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorrowUsernames and
For a better understanding you can watch another of his performances here, this time of the britishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7xoavMvdE&list=PL3e1orPYt_4YwSmw1vhXbxfm4fHZdlCkP&index=153 …
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My contention is not that this is extremely high brow, only that there is a gag and it might make you chuckle if you are not primed politically to disagree with it.
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