Racist jokes are often hillarious.
You don’t make racist jokes because they’re not funny. You don’t make racist jokes because they’re racist and dehumanizing.
A joke doesn’t don’t stop being funny because it’s racist, but it does become dehumanizing and reflects very poorly on whoever is telling the joke. It also signifies a lack of wit because racist jokes are often very, very easy most of the time.
It’s not that someone telling a racist joke isn’t funny. It’s that they’re also a piece of shit.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Exactly, you still be a racist, homophonic, xenophobic, whatever phobic idiot and still be funny. That doesn’t mean your beliefs or perspective is legitimate or agreeable, it just makes you funny.
One of my wife’s old aunts was one of the funniest ladies I knew … wild sense of humor and she could make anyone laugh. But she was a complete conservative and racist.
She had the Irish kind of humor where she could literally make insults at you and about you or someone else and still make you laugh.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yule pole my homophonic jokes from my cold dead hands