Oh, for adults.
I was just checking because they bully kids too.
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Oh yeah… absolutely. They especially love to bully kids. I’m just noting that these are adults who are claiming to be “making jokes” but are really just being bullies…
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A plain reading of the story of Dave the Black Engineer reveals a level of understanding about diversity and tokenism which rivals that held by a 20-year-old member of the College Republicans.
The character is obviously designed to make fun of diversity from a conservative viewpoint (i.e., it’s dumb and pointless because, as every thinking person knows, Racism Is Over) and Adams is a well-known, bad-faith troll.
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Have you ever tried talking to a group of middle-aged white men about inherent white male privilege? I have. The bristling, the anger, the downright outrage is almost a given. I have lost friends bc of this lack of ability for white men to even discuss the topic. And that’s when trying to bring up the experiences of others within our system, not calling them out for benefitting from this privilege.
And this is not what Adams is doing. He’s ridiculing and belittling people who are literally born in the wrong body, and making light of their bravery in taking the steps necessary to remedy that.
There is one side who are forever “clutching pearls” about any discussion of our diversity. And they are the same ones who refuse to discuss that diversity with respect and historic and scientific relevance. 
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Right… because for him, anyone who isn’t just like him is a joke and their experiences are worthy of contempt…
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I removed Adams from my RSS feeds because he kept mixing in his blog posts with his comics, and the opinions were often gross.
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Much. It took a 6-hour surgery, where they took short ribs from her body, modified them into new vertebrae, took out the old, and put the new ones in place – as she put it, she was cut in half and put back together. 6 years on she’s in assisted living for unrelated reasons, but otherwise doing fine.
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I am Groot.
But seriously, that tomato one could be a pretty solid joke if it was delivered by an LGBTQ+ person. I can totally hear Jon Lovett doing it ridiculing regressive policy.
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Fun fact: YOU do not get to decide what jokes are harmful to other people. You do not get to speak for Black people or trans people or any other oppressed group of which you are not a part.
You don’t get a say, full stop. Listen with empathy when others tell you something is harmful, try to understand why, and you’ll grow. Or don’t and just go away. It’s not our job to make you a better person.
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Slow clap.
This isn’t golf, why are you slow-clapping?
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Have you tried penicillin?
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It’s not so much can’t as it is shouldn’t. And that’s only because without an understanding perspective (which this man does not have) and actual skill, it’s almost always going to be punching down. These comics were punching down. At multiple targets.
The comic ending with a Black man stating that he identifies as white? That could be funny in a broader context, and in fact was in an episode of Atlanta. But here it’s presented as the punchline. The punchline is, “Isn’t it absurd that an obviously Black man is identifying as white?” The further implication being, “It’s an absurd notion to believe anyone can identify as anything else.” That’s neither a positive nor neutral punchline, but you’re welcome to explain otherwise.
Then there’s the comic ending with the boss explaining that he paid for college by identifying as Black. Self-explanatory joke about affirmative action programs. Again, tell me how that’s positive or neutral.
Dilbert was once considered funny back when its creator channeled the shared experience of working under bad management and made jokes punching up at it. Things went south once he revealed himself as someone who believes that there are naturally superior people out there who are being held down by the stupid and undeserving. It’s all less funny when you realize how he sees the world.
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Yeah almost buried among all the other WTF in that strip is the idea that any idiot in America can go to college for free as long as they’re Black.
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Thank you. I’d not heard of Stewart Lee.
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On one of the very rare times I looked at his blog a couple years ago, the entry I read was how there was some switch in his hotel room that was poorly designed, so his “engineer’s mind” couldn’t work it out. Luckily, he was there with his hot 30-years-younger Instagram-model wife, who was stupid enough that she worked it out immediately. Because she wasn’t burdened by his giant engineer’s brain.
When trying to find the post, I was pleased to discover that she had since divorced him, after less than two years. Because even his millions can’t make her enjoy living with a twice-her-age asshole trolley.
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Geoff Norcott is right wing and IMHO funny…
