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Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)

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[–] Pogbom 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeahhh but when the race you're making fun of isn't threatened, doesn't face any meaningful discrimination, and pretty much runs the world, I think it's safe to make fun of us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Either race-tinged observational jokes can be funny if good spirited (I subscribe to this view) or they should be considered poor taste 100% of the time. (That's fine too)

But this self-flogging "lol but it's ok to be racist against people that look like me because the stereotype is some bad people also look like me, so I totally deserve it based on my ancestry, right guys?" Schtick isn't good for anybody.

(Unless you literally don't face any injustice on your way to running the world, then I totally misunderstood lol.)

But the idea that you should denigrate yourself to appease others' misguided hatred of your racial "impurity" is...the exact concept we want to eradicate isn't it?