Mickey Rooney called and says this is too far.
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When marginalized people make jokes about themselves and their communities they're hilarious. When privileged people make jokes about marginalized people it's not funny at all. Privileged people only have a handful of jokes about marginalized people and they all suck.
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Replying to @soiendure @chrisiousity and
When marginalized people make a type of joke but privileged people can't doesn't that make the marginalized people privileged?
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Replying to @CuponkX @soiendure and
No. The privilege to understand one's own experience is a universal privilege: ie. no privilege at all. Its just that privileged people, because of their privilege, don't get this and feel entitled to make jokes about things they have no understanding of, and they CAN do so
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Replying to @chrisiousity @soiendure and
Well, in that case, if you aren't white you aren't allowed to make jokes about white people. You're also not allowed to call them racist because "you don't understand their position." Bad jokes are bad, good jokes are good. It doesn't matter who makes them.
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Replying to @CuponkX @soiendure and
I'm white. Privileged people make bad jokes about marginalized people. That's the point- the jokes are bad. Bad jokes are bad, and these jokes are bad.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @soiendure and
This specific one was pretty bad, but I've seen racial humor (from both white people and black people) that was fucking hilarious. When it comes to comedy, nobody is privileged.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @soiendure and
How so? There seems to be a pretty equal amount of popular black comedians and white comedians, who are generally treated equally. I mean, Richard Pryor was a famous comedian that everyone loved and he came from a time where legal segregation still existed.
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Get a load of this historical revisionism. Do you also say that everyone loved Martin Luther King Jr? Richard Pryor had to do a lot to get where he was & there are many documentaries & interviews with him where he discusses the sheer volume of hate he received on a daily basis.
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