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
Juxtaposition and the absurd are all well and good, but the way he’s depicting the stereotype is not at all new; we’ve seen the buck-tooth look before since before Twitter, YouTube, or likely any of the users were born.
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @StaringMary and
So surely the joke can’t hinge on the depiction of this appearance as an absurd caricature...the “shock” would just be in someone pulling the same “joke” again in 2019
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Replying to @BorisBorisxl @BorrowUsernames and
I dont think shock is what you are attempting to derive from absurdity. Absurd things are just amusing, so long as they are close enough to something real to have some reality. But there is a meta element which I wrote of in my other tweets.
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorisBorisxl and
Best to just take a look at his actual podcast, if you are still having trouble understanding, here is the africa introhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcMiPs6iPg&list=PL3e1orPYt_4YwSmw1vhXbxfm4fHZdlCkP&index=154 …
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Replying to @StaringMary @BorisBorisxl and
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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