The problem with racist humor is that theres a limited number of premises. How many ways can you make a slavery or no father joke about black people? How many math jokes can you make about asians? Muslim terrorists? You get the idea.
I dont want the same lazy bullshit over and over. I want my dark humor to be fresh! I want my Titan submarine jokes before the bubbles reach the surface.
Racist humor isnt “dark” humor, its lazy tired rehashed crap. Real dark humor is like kids with leukaemia, it never seems to get old.
The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.
Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.
Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.
I feel that privilege is a concept that should be applied to classes, not individuals. You can’t just judge someone as privileged based on one aspect of their life.
The whole “punching up” concept just leads to it being accepted to make misogynistic jokes at white women, ablist and body-shaming jokes at “creepy” men, racist jokes at wealthy Asians, and so on.
Rather, I think the intent behind the joke, and the consequences of the stereotypes it reinforces, is what should be examined rather than the demographic on the receiving end.
No, it really doesn’t. It’s a kludge to allow hostile humour against people you don’t like, while protecting those you do, all while claiming impartiality.
Dark humor is good as long as it’s actually dark humor. As much as I hated the power mods of Reddit, Awkwardtheturtle’s constant trolling of the dark humor sub was fucking hilarious. He’d throw random rules on posting and commenting that would take off most comments and posts by default. Seeing those immature assholes lose their shit over not being able to be as racist is hilarious.
Redditor “You like dark humor?”
Me “Yeah sure I guess”
Redditor “I LIKE RAPING BABIES AND MURDERING MINORITIES! I ALSO BEAT MY WIFE! PLEASE LAUGH!”
There was and still is a shit ton of racism on Reddit, among other -ism hate.
People like to hate on groups they deem “other” or less than. r/Freespeech is stuffed to the gills with transphobia and homophobia, for example. Anyone else remember r/FatPeopleHate? r/The_Donald hasn’t been gone that long. etc etc etc.
Fair, I never went on those subs and I’d imagine most Redditors didn’t. I’d also imagine there are some Lemmy instances which are just as bad if not worse. I guess that’s a bit different because federation means those communities are isolated from other instances, but I don’t know if practically it’s any different when it’s so easy to have accounts across multiple instances. I’d imagine anyone using one of those highly isolated instances on Lemmy will have an account on another instance.
No most redditors most definitely Loved those places. Top of r/All every day. Same with r/CrazyFVideos and r/trashy. IDK people say most redditors are bots
4.6 million subscribers all time out of 1.7 billion monthly active users. Roughly the 90th most popular subreddit, which is quite large but it’s still a fraction of a percent of users.
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The admins and moderators removed my comments. Am I so racist? No. It’s the admins who are wrong
Oh, don’t worry. They are here.
Lol. Frank in IASIP season 16 ep 6.
I gotta know who the victim is!
But who versus? Who are we doing it versus?
Dude I loved I’m Always Sippin’ (I)on Piss! Frank was amazing in it.
Or everyone except Charlie at the beginning of The Nightman Cometh:
Dark Humor and racism are different things. But many don’t get that (in both directions)
Yeah I’m all for some dark humor, but can we not make this Reddit 2.0 or whatever?
I like dark humor, just as long it’s not about skin color. It’s weird how many racists seem to be attracted to meme channels.
The problem with racist humor is that theres a limited number of premises. How many ways can you make a slavery or no father joke about black people? How many math jokes can you make about asians? Muslim terrorists? You get the idea.
I dont want the same lazy bullshit over and over. I want my dark humor to be fresh! I want my Titan submarine jokes before the bubbles reach the surface.
Racist humor isnt “dark” humor, its lazy tired rehashed crap. Real dark humor is like kids with leukaemia, it never seems to get old.
RIP, Luke.
They are not attracted to it because it’s racial, they are attracted to it because it is taboo.
Dark humor is humor generated from your own pain.
Edgy humor is humor generated from the pain of others.
The first one is funny, the second is boring and shitty
Relevant Contrapoints: https://youtu.be/qtj7LDYaufM
I think its more the way humor is used/intended.
The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.
Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.
Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.
Eh. I’d say there’s exceptions. Maybe more to the point of “Don’t Punch Down”?
I can laugh all day at the rich/privileged suffering the consequences of their own mistakes.
Not certain the rich feel pain the same way, but you’re right. Punching up has value and often is the right thing to do
I feel that privilege is a concept that should be applied to classes, not individuals. You can’t just judge someone as privileged based on one aspect of their life.
The whole “punching up” concept just leads to it being accepted to make misogynistic jokes at white women, ablist and body-shaming jokes at “creepy” men, racist jokes at wealthy Asians, and so on.
Rather, I think the intent behind the joke, and the consequences of the stereotypes it reinforces, is what should be examined rather than the demographic on the receiving end.
“Don’t Puch down” is good rule to live by.
Maybe the rich/privileged are controlling/influencing so much of our lifes that this counts as your own pain.
No, it really doesn’t. It’s a kludge to allow hostile humour against people you don’t like, while protecting those you do, all while claiming impartiality.
What’s a kludge?
An extra complication necessary to make something work. It’s generally negative.
I got no problem with humor… But rasistical humor I don’t really care for. It is possible to have fun without hurting loads of peoples feelings.
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Dark humor is good as long as it’s actually dark humor. As much as I hated the power mods of Reddit, Awkwardtheturtle’s constant trolling of the dark humor sub was fucking hilarious. He’d throw random rules on posting and commenting that would take off most comments and posts by default. Seeing those immature assholes lose their shit over not being able to be as racist is hilarious.
Redditor “You like dark humor?”
Me “Yeah sure I guess”
Redditor “I LIKE RAPING BABIES AND MURDERING MINORITIES! I ALSO BEAT MY WIFE! PLEASE LAUGH!”
Your example has the dark, but none of the humor.
I don’t think dark humor isn’t the same as “Reddit 2.0”
But in general, yeah, I’m with you.
I’m sure there’s an instance for that
It’s called threads
Exploding heads…
wait until facebook regulars pour in
Unlike with Facebook, they can’t hide in their private communities.
Waiting for the devs to add “sort by controversial” so I don’t have to see them.
Just… better
Many people are saying this LMAO.
Spot on
Don’t worry, they’re bringing it with them.
It’s fine. There’s still plenty of sexism. Reddit people love that. 😎
Did I just have a very different Reddit experience to everyone else or is this a massive circle jerk?
I didn’t see it that much as well… But then I never looked for it either…
There was and still is a shit ton of racism on Reddit, among other -ism hate.
People like to hate on groups they deem “other” or less than. r/Freespeech is stuffed to the gills with transphobia and homophobia, for example. Anyone else remember r/FatPeopleHate? r/The_Donald hasn’t been gone that long. etc etc etc.
Definitely a circlejerk outside of specific subs
There was a lot of dog whistle racism is subs like r/publicfreakout
Any community as large as Reddits is going to have a some arseholes but it largely depended on which sort of subs you were subscribed to.
Fair, I never went on those subs and I’d imagine most Redditors didn’t. I’d also imagine there are some Lemmy instances which are just as bad if not worse. I guess that’s a bit different because federation means those communities are isolated from other instances, but I don’t know if practically it’s any different when it’s so easy to have accounts across multiple instances. I’d imagine anyone using one of those highly isolated instances on Lemmy will have an account on another instance.
No most redditors most definitely Loved those places. Top of r/All every day. Same with r/CrazyFVideos and r/trashy. IDK people say most redditors are bots
4.6 million subscribers all time out of 1.7 billion monthly active users. Roughly the 90th most popular subreddit, which is quite large but it’s still a fraction of a percent of users.
I got banned from that sub for having common sense.
Hey, I’m from Reddit and I’m not like that. :/
Edit: Meant to say from Reddit, not a Reddit. Lol.
You mean you used to be?
Yeah, that. Mis-typed is all.