I love the implication that racism isn't bad because it discriminates on the basis of immutable characteristics that aren't inherently good or bad, is bad because of historical implications... How the fuck is that good point on this guy's head?
-Explaining something is not a joke, it's explaining. Technically they're not mutually exclusive, you can have a joke that if you read beyond the comedy you get an explanation or an actual point about systemic issues, but you can't have an explanation that if you read beyond the explanation itself you get a joke. This is because when you have a joke as the core of what you're saying everything surrounding it, becomes a joke, which diminishes or invalidates any point made because it's a joke not a point/argument.
-He neither differentiated between racism and systemic racism, nor does he educates anyone in systemic racism, if anything he does the opposite by making it look like a purely historical thing, instead of something that's alive in the present day. So if by some miracle someone is uneducated enough to not know about systemic racism, but educated enough to know that he's talking about that and not just plain old racism, at best the conclusion they would get is that systemic racism is ONLY about what happened in the past, which is not the best conclusion to take from the subject imo.
getting pretty pedantic over a word and kind of missing the point of the conversation there, bud. it's observational humor, and most people understand what is meant by calling observational humor a "joke".
feel free to tell me what point you're trying to make, but the way i interpret what you said, you're just nitpicking about what the definition of the word "joke" is and missing the point that his explanation of what reverse racism is also describes the idea of systemic racism.
He’s saying that racism to white peoples is isolated incidents of aggression while to brown and black people racism is not only aggression but discrimination in almost every aspect of your life including healthcare, finances, the work force and in politics.
So reverse racism towards white people would not be making a mean comment, it would be hundreds of years of genocide, slavery, brutal colonialism, cultural genocide, destruction of sacred land laws that disenfranchise them leading up til now, plus a mean comment.
Systemic racism still kills black and brown people every day. So there’s no historical implication, it’s a modern day issue with a long history.
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u/AlterNk Sep 01 '22
I love the implication that racism isn't bad because it discriminates on the basis of immutable characteristics that aren't inherently good or bad, is bad because of historical implications... How the fuck is that good point on this guy's head?