sanityscraps
Iron Reagan
sanityscraps
Iron Reagan
sanityscraps
Jokes become sinister, as you call it, when they actually hurt people. I'm not just talking about hurt feelings, but about jokes that reinforce cultural attitudes that then reinforce oppressive social structures. Rape jokes, for instance. Racist jokes as well.
You can't just use the "satire" defense of your horrible non-jokes. Satire has to meaningfully deconstruct what you're supposedly targeting, not reinforce it.
Uhh
Jokes require exaggeration to be funny
Please inform me how they reinforce oppressive social structures?
That's the dumbest thing I've read on this forum to date.
lol
How about some science?
Here's a study that says rape jokes and other sexist humor increase rape myth acceptance and rape proclivity in men.
Similarly, racism (including long term exposure to racist humor)
creates CPTSD in people of color.
I'm sure it does, oh and did you hear that women can make women pregnant now!? Yeah, a liberal scientist found that out! How credible any source with ".edu" is!
Also, I Ctrl+F'd and search for the word "joke" and "humor" and didn't find anything. That article was talking about hardcore "you're black get away from me you thief" racism, not friendly "a black guy walks into a bar" racism. Way to go champ, is there anything else you'd like to add to help further discredit your claims?
But you would have found the word "microaggression." A microagression is any perceived "small" racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. thing someone says or does, which includes a joke made in poor taste with a person's identity as the punchline. Nice job reading. CTRL-F really doesn't do you much good. If you don't think racist jokes count as racism, you're even more of an idiot than I thought.
If you'd like to try and disprove the science, try and find an actual study with good methodology to back your claims up. I'm sure you'll find none. Your cognitive dissonance is hilarious.
Microaggressions have nothing to do with jokes and everything to do with everyday interaction. Your initial claim was that long term exposure to racial jokes creates PTSD in 'people of color'.
Lets look at what a microaggression is.
Microaggression
Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as small acts of mostly non-physical aggression coined by Chester M. Pierce[1] in 1970. Micro-inequities and microaffirmations were additionally named by Mary Rowe of MIT in 1973, in her work she also describes micro-aggressions inclusive of sex and gender. Sue et al. (2007) describe microaggressions as, “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.”[2]
A racial microaggression would be, for example, going up to a black male and saying a racial slur as I pass. Another microaggression would be a Mexican or Black male coming up to me for no rhyme or reason and calling me "white boy".
What ISN'T a microaggression is me hanging out with my friends telling racial jokes, black, mexican, whatever, and they being okay and secure with me telling them, or I being okay and secure with them tell them. Intent and context means nothing to you, clearly; or else you'd realize the literal falsehood in your claims. Not the source's claims, but specifically
your claims.
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