…US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was “disgusted” by the “racist comment”. She said it did not "reflect the GOP values""…
You sure about that Maria?
…US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was “disgusted” by the “racist comment”. She said it did not "reflect the GOP values""…
You sure about that Maria?
Modern conservatism is all about setting up in-groups and out-groups, and their humor plays directly into that. Their humor reinforces the stereotypes they want to believe, then when they get called out in it they play the “It’s just a joke, brah!” card. But it’s not the humor that should trouble us, it’s the underlying assumptions that you need to have to see it as funny.
Oh shit, that feels like such a simplified and meaningful response. So it’s that in-group/out-group mentality? They aren’t laughing because a marginalized group is being threatened, they’re laughing when the marginalized group is labeled at subhuman and then described as “garbage,” “lazy,” or “unintelligent.”
It’s like how blonde jokes used to be funny if you accepted that “the blonde” was this unbelievably foolish character. But instead of blonde, you substitute x minority or “non-heteronormative” and instead of something creative such as wishing the friends who just escaped the island were back on the island, you just give them monstrous attributes such as being rapists and criminals?
I feel like I’m getting really really close to understanding this, I don’t see how you get from A to B in this kind of “humor” because B isn’t funny and doesn’t seem like anyone someone would want to go…