It begs what question? Have you seen these cartoons and articles?
One of the purposes of humor is to defuse implied violence. Thus we have comedians like Chris Rock and Dave LaChapelle. Yup. I think they're really, really funny even though they're filled with rage and white culture is often the butt of their humor. I guess I'm white (although by the quaint judicial codes of pre-Civil War Louisiana, I'm actually an octaroon.)
I may well have thought coon and minstrel jokes were funny if I'd been an adult back when they were the rage. Cultural mores shift over time. I think the wholesale bowdlerization and condemnation of the past because it doesn't share the enlightenment of the present is pretty fucking bizarre. That doesn't mean I don't support the more enlightened views of the present.
There's no way I can spin the bombings in France as anything other than an action by a particularly creepy fundamentalist faction of Islam that I would cheerfully obliterate if I could. Fuck 'em. Seriously.
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Date: 2015-01-07 09:08 pm (UTC)One of the purposes of humor is to defuse implied violence. Thus we have comedians like Chris Rock and Dave LaChapelle. Yup. I think they're really, really funny even though they're filled with rage and white culture is often the butt of their humor. I guess I'm white (although by the quaint judicial codes of pre-Civil War Louisiana, I'm actually an octaroon.)
I may well have thought coon and minstrel jokes were funny if I'd been an adult back when they were the rage. Cultural mores shift over time. I think the wholesale bowdlerization and condemnation of the past because it doesn't share the enlightenment of the present is pretty fucking bizarre. That doesn't mean I don't support the more enlightened views of the present.
There's no way I can spin the bombings in France as anything other than an action by a particularly creepy fundamentalist faction of Islam that I would cheerfully obliterate if I could. Fuck 'em. Seriously.