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What's the joke?
Isn't even an original joke, the meme of trash island in the Atlantic is old as hell, Google "England" for more information.
I think the joke was "I hate minorities, this is my unironic view! Race war now, if it aint white it's not right, white power!" which, is about as funny as a child with terminal illness, which is to say.. Not very funny at all, and is in fact quite a serious matter that should be taken as such.
I would like to know that. I would also like to know what the joke the same fuck told at the same event about black people carving Jack-o-Lanterns out of watermelons was.
I hope @[email protected] can enlighten us as to what both jokes are.
According to the modlog, his comment was about how “all the r-slur takes in this thread are why many people hate lemmy, and you guys do get that he’s a comedian doing an act at a conference, right?”
Hm. Doesn't sound like much of a joke to me.
i didn’t watch any of it, so i have no idea about the jack o lantern joke. but i did reply regarding the other one
That was the "joke." He said black people carve Jack-O-Lanterns out of watermelon instead of pumpkins.
Feel free to explain why that's funny and not just a racist saying something racist.
well, that’s a really shitty joke, if that even.
i don’t know why you’re expecting me to explain why it’s funny
This is you, right?
That's why I'm expecting you to explain it. You're the one excusing the guy.
excusing the guy isn’t synonymous with finding his jokes funny.
the guy is an entertainer putting on a show.
I see. And that means anything he says is acceptable? He can tell a very explicit, highly-detailed story about a violent rape of a child, making it clear that he knows exactly what it's like to rape a child, and that's fine because he's an entertainer putting on a show?
If not, please explain where the line is.
his job is to be funny. sometimes the jokes land, sometimes they don’t. being pissed about a comedian making a bad joke is like being pissed at a band for playing a song out of tune.
and the kind of hyperbole you’re engaging in, is the exact thing i was referring to in my original comment.
That doesn't tell me where the line is.
If racism isn't the line, where is the line? If he makes jokes about the explicit child rape is it over the line or not?
According to the modlog, they posted
“all the [r-slur] takes in this post is the reason many have come to hate lemmy. you guys do get that he’s a comedian doing an act at a conference, right?”
Yeah, that's great. What's the point of the moderator removing a comment if somebody like you is going to come along and repost it?
Interesting. I can still see the comment.
What’s the point of having a modlog that allows anyone to publicly see the comment that was removed?
The purpose was to show that they weren’t making some off-colored joke, as some suggested, but rather making a hateful statement in general. It was removed for violating rule 5. I censored out the slur, so if the mods want to remove my comment, they will. Feel free to ask them to do so.
i can’t tell if you’re asking in earnest or not, but the joke is rooted in subversion of expectations. puerto rico has 29 landfills, all of which are way over capacity, so trash is currently building up.
presumably he’s pointing out an actual problem on the island, while also poking fun at them in an offensive way.
the exact same joke has been pulled about england for the past 20 years, albeit without pointing out any sanitation issue.