“Oh, jokes just normally have a punchline and aren’t just stating something really backwards”

That’s half the fun. Watching them squirm and try to figure out how to explain the joke without saying the -ism out loud when they realize they’re not in “safe” company.

I have a lot of jokes where my friends don’t find them funny. But there’s always a punch line, some smart wordplay, terrible pun, even if they feel like it’s too forced (smh).

Racists do know that openly saying that “minorities being abused is funny” sounds racist as fuck, so they try to avoid explaining their jokes.

Don’t believe that was in this fine piece of cinema. Ass Clown on the other hand…

“What the fuck dude, you’re talking like there’s no paper in tray two after I just filled it. Fuck off!”

“Do you hear yourself right now?”

I would never treat people the way I feel towards printers! Hateful, vile things…

yes. Relish the beautiful silence.

I’m a white American immigrant in Germany. The shit people say to me about immigrants, which they then walk back with “but not you, you’re one of the good ones,” is infuriating.

Being human doesn’t make you good. Plenty of humans are monsters. They’re not some eldritch evil that simply started existing hating, they chose this.

That makes them worse, of course… but still very very human.

In drag’s experience, calling someone a human is a tremendously vicious insult if you have cool enough friends.

In my experience that is almost never the case. They’ll just call you a liberal soyboy or something and never think on it further.

Exactly. Also some of us have learned to fear pushing back against cishet men who are being aggressive. As a trans lesbian I’m not going to improve the situation with confrontation, I’ll just get shouted at, called a snowflake, or otherwise dismissed. But when say, my girlfriend’s husband, a very large extremely masculine cishet guy challenges it, it may not always go well, but it’s perceived as peer disapproval as opposed to “triggering the enemy”.

Oh, I got it. Thanks

Throw 3 or 4 ‘pendejo’ in there for good measure

I had a Mexican friend back in college and we used to joke that if you put El in front of something, it became Spanish.

So he’d say something like, “Hey, do you want to get el pizza tonight?”

And I’d say, “Sorry, I don’t speak Spanish.”

(Although normally we’d do it as an inside joke when someone couldn’t understand him because of his accent.)

Middle-aged white men have a lot of privilege. It’s time we used it for good.

Is this white-saviour and/or patriarchial? Yup. Does it work? Also yup.

I don’t know if we all realize this, but some shitlord being told “What the fuck is wrong you?!” cuts deeper when it comes from someone who looks like their dad, granddad, or their boss.

I’m a 47-year old white guy in a leadership position in a large company. I’ve done exactly this to both young-millenial edgelord types who think I’m in on the joke, and boomer or elder-Xers who are yelling at clouds. I will tell you that, not only does it smack down the dipshit who thought that “lol rape” or “brown people bad” was funny, it also sets the tone for everyone else in the room, and it gets word around that bigotry isn’t acceptable.

Anyone can say this, but it hits harder when it’s someone privileged. Women, LGBTQ folk and other vulnerable groups don’t have this privilege, and get shut down, and if we don’t want that to be the case, we need to speak up for them.

It’s only bigotry if it’s cishetwhitemen doing it, otherwise it’s just sparkling discrimination.

I’m not in the trenches of this particular culture war, so I don’t know shit, but I really do wonder why not phrase it as “people who want to be better allies” instead of targeting a single racial group and sexual orientation. Would feel more inclusive.

Didn’t know there were so many All Lives Matter people on here, Jesus Christ.

If I know I’ll have to talk to them again soon I’ll just awkwardly look away, hoping they figure it out themselves but other than that I try to be the exact same.