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> It’s the same reason a demonstrably racist person can’t make racists jokes, but a demonstrably not racist person can get away with racist jokes.

So be a "good person" and you can tell any "jokes" you like. Happy Black History Month!




That’s not what I said. I said they can get away with it.

“Getting away with it” for bigoted jokes has a lot of nuance and context sensitivity.

For comedians including bigoted jokes in their set, it’s usually surrounded with self deprecation, self awareness, not the whole set, and is extremely careful about how they go about crossing the line, they know that they crossed a line and bring it back.

This is contrary to bigoted people telling bigoted “jokes”. It’s usually their whole set. They keep the set over the line. There’s no self reflection. It is bigotry coming from a place of bigotry.

I know that you on the alt-right tend to lack the capability to process nuance, and that you’re going to completely latch on to that single byte. So further explanation of why there’s a difference means nothing to you, but hopefully others see that being able to get away with a bigoted joke now and again is absolutely not the same thing as it “being okay”.




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