Racist Comedy?

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Fri Aug 24 17:07:21 PDT 2001



> >=========
> >Show me a non-authoritarian procedure for eliminating the desire of
> >human beings to inflict emotional harms with words that leaves our
> >comedic powers intact, if not substantially enlarged and I'll sign
up!
> >:-)
>
> There is a deeply authoritarian streak in many whites' insistence
> that if we don't find ethnic & racial slurs, ethnic & racial jokes,
> etc. funny, we must have no sense of humor & may be even a bit
dense,
> especially when such "cool brothers" as Chris Rock & Samuel Jackson
> (_Hollywood Shuffle_ indeed!) are there to reassure everyone that
the
> said whites are no racists.
>
> Yoshie
======== Not that I agree with them, but they are entitled to their opinion. As for the authoritarian claim; reflexivity unto interminableness...

Ian



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