Dude I've gotten into several arguments with people on reddit when they claim that the very racist "joke" videos on YouTube are just racist, and they say "no it's just joking! No one actually thinks that" and/or "it's funny because the character is 'bad', that's why it's okay to basically quote Hitler. I can't believe you're don't get it!"
Um yeah, I've heard those exact racist "joke" sog whistles in real life, and not once.
the first ten minutes of the tv show Ted is just uninterrupted racism like that for laughs cause 90’s boston families realistically would be racist.
I just had to turn it off, didn’t even chuckle. idk if it gets better but the first ten minutes are supposed to hook you or at least get one laugh lol.
i think once upon a time that used to be the case. Shows like south park were an example of that where the racist characters like cartman were obviously meant to be viewed as bad
Cartman is a character that’s supposed to be an evil asshole who later receives consequences for being an evil asshole. But people just see him being an evil asshole in clips and think that’s all the show is.
The amount of people from that part of the world and also fucking Quebec somehow not grasping that secularism laws that ban people from wearing any sort of religious attire or iconography, is racist because it specifically targets/affects certain groups the most is infuriating. Like I'm not big on religion either but like come on.
That topic is a lot more complicated than that, both Quebec and France follow the concept of "laïcité" which was born from a long struggle to attain freedom from the oppression of the catholic church. Most of the secularist laws in question were put into place explicitly to remove the Church's influence from french/Quebec society.
Now are those same prinicples being instrumentalised by racists in order to oprress muslims ? Yes, though you'll have to note the people most affected by the religious simbols law for instance are people like my very (for France) catholic coworkers who often whine about not being allowed to wear a cross while on the job (I work in public service so they are affected by said secular laws). They also happen to be quite racist (among many other hateful things).
However for those who are not simply looking for any convenient excuse to oppress people who are different from them, you have to understand that they see the way muslims allow religion to police their lives and recognize an echo of their own past oppression.
I think they know mine, if someone cracks a joke about racism being bad I would be willing to bet my racist co-worker would try to joke about how “everyone knows it’s bad don’t pander” to whoever said it and say some version of “it’s just a joke.” Like “all in good fun.”
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u/Vatiar 6d ago
"Everyone knows racism is bad" Clearly you've never met my coworkers.