#racism as a haha funny edgy joke

[hippityhoppityyourenowmyproperty]

You can tell that Alastor wasn't supposed to be creole in the pilot because if he was Angel dust would have called him a slur as a joke like he did with Vaggie and Charlie woulda told Al to calm down and said "You guuuys! Stop fighting!!!"

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

I fucking HATE people who make 9/11 jokes. And like, yeah, I know damn well that republicans have turned the memory 9/11 into an absolute farce that's used to promote racism and islamophobia... But do you really think that a bunch of gay kids going "haha 9/11 funny lol!" is going to change that? Be for real. Use your brains.

"A second plane has hit the towers lololol" do you know how horrifying that was to see when it happened? Do you know what it's like to not know if your family and friends are alive or dead, and all you can do is watch live footage of people jumping to their deaths because it's a less painful death than the alternative? Do you know what it's like for portions of your community to just be fucking gone and never coming back? Because I do.

And again, you can dress up your South Park humor all you want, but is it actually helping with anything? I'm ESPECIALLY looking at folks who have never been at risk of being called terrorists. Is it really your place to say "but 9/11 has been used to hurt people, so it's funny"? Or did you fuckers just never grow out of middle school edgy humor. Fucking get real

[straightlightyagami]

Some people I know in real life seem to think I’m very serious and don’t have a sense of humor because I don’t laugh at some jokes. But tbh like. I just don’t find the average high schooler’s idea of jokes — i.e. [transphobia/homophobia/misogyny/racism] “lmao look I’m so funny and edgy right haha” — to be funny at all

[twinkletwinkletruly]

“Hey, let’s do a practical ‘joke’ about how a part of our country should lose all rights and freedoms, and should be forced to do manual labour for the benefit of others! That’ll be hilarious!!!”

What the fuck is wrong with some people?! What’s “funny” about “Haha, you’re gonna be treated as if you are less than human, solely because of the tone of your skin, and I’ll never know what that fear is like, lol!” That’s sadistic and gross beyond belief!!! Fuck people that hide racism behind “edgy humour”, no one is laughing except sociopathic wastes of oxygen that cannot comprehend human empathy!

This morning there was a nation-wide text spam campaign targeting Black Americans (largely students) telling them that they’ve been selected to pick cotton and will be picked up to be sent to a plantation after Trump’s inauguration.

People online are making jokes about it, but it’s genuinely a disturbing sign. Someone was emboldened enough to intentionally run a background on thousands of young Black people and send them racist messages the day after a very exhausting and stressful election.

[zisurru-main]

christian evangelicals on this site are so funny they spend all their time going “ni- haha did i TRIGGER you? oops REDDIT MOMENT fucking degens racism isn’t real” and then when someone makes a joke about thinking satan is cool they’re suddenly in the notes all “that is not funny. you are being mean, to god. satan is bad. you won’t be laughing when you are in hell.” what happened man i thought being edgy was based

[biracy]

When Does “Dark Humor” Stop Being Funny?

A while ago, I made a post on this blog about satire, more specifically the difference between satire and being blatantly offensive. I think there are similar things to be said about dark humor, shock entertainment, and any form of media that explores darker themes.

With a lot of dark humor, the joke isn’t that violence, racism, or homophobia is funny, the joke is that that it’s bad. When a YouTuber like Filthy Frank pretends to put a hamster in a sock and swing it at a wall, the joke is that the guy killing an animal is a shitty person, not that the death of an animal in and of itself is a funny thing. When not on camera, Filthy Frank doesn’t actually kill hamsters, nor does he condone killing hamsters.

With shock entertainment, you derive enjoyment from the subjects being bad. When a shock performer like Alice Cooper hangs himself or beheads a baby doll or sings about fucking corpses, the intended reaction is “oh that’s really fucked up.” Maybe the absurdity of it makes it a little bit humorous to you, but not because you think murder is funny; it’s because you think murder is bad. When not performing, Alice Cooper doesn’t kill babies or fuck dead bodies, nor does he condone those things.

A similar reaction is meant to be felt with “darker” media. When tv shows, movies, or books explore themes like death, abuse, or addiction, you’re not supposed to think murder is funny or abuse is hot (thus why pieces of media marketing murder as funny or abuse as hot are inherently offensive). In a book like La Casa de los Espíritus (which I’m reading rn), you’re not supposed to like a character like Esteban Trueba. You’re not supposed to think it’s hot when he impregnates teenagers or funny when he abuses his workers. Isabel Allende, while not a performer, does not condone impregnating teenagers or abusing your workers. 

You’re not supposed to like these characters or think what they’re doing is hot or funny or acceptable. That’s the point. If a convicted rapist makes a joke about rape or a murderer makes a joke about murder, it isn’t funny because they think those things are acceptable. When the point of a joke or a performance or a story is that “[x bad thing] is funny” or “[y bad thing] is hot,” it becomes offensive, because it’s condoning bad behavior. With a lot of “edgy and offensive memes,” the joke seems to be nothing but “haha racism/sexism/homophobia funny”, which normalizes that behavior because you don’t think it’s bad, you think it’s funny. When erotica contains abuse or rape or pedophilia or incest, it promotes that as “hot”, as opposed to when a serious drama contains those themes. Intent is important. If a piece of media is intended to disturb, if the point of a joke is that it’s bad, it’s using those themes correctly. 

[just-binch-thoughts]

Oh haha 9/11 joke. Come up with new material, all the funny jokes are already made. Would love to hear people get edgy about something European that not related to WW2 or the fucking Ukraine/Russia shite. Please, make a fucking joke about that shooting in Utrecht, or whatever, show us you have a single damn clue about what happened and is happening in the world besides the things your grubby ass we-have-no-concept-of-basic-human-decency claws can get enough fear-factor from. Shit happens beyond Russia, China, and your genocide circle. Jesus Christ, if I didn't KNOW Americans, I'd think this shit is intentional. Know what, if any American can come up with a funny joke about BeNeLux, Indonesia, Germany or South-Africa, relating to events current or past, NOT including colony shit OR WW2, I'll shut up about this whole "Americans are unaware of the world around them" thing for the rest of my responding 'career'. Oh yeah, if you pick South-Africa and stoop to Apartheid/racism shit, you should feel ashamed of yourself. Try something original, your "edgy jokes" aren't edgy, they're annoying and stupid. Try something that actually hits.

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