And if you don’t find him funny, you’re a “feminazi” who needs to “man-up!” /s
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I think that you might want to reread your original post. I have read through it three times now and, quite frankly, I am not sure what you were trying to say. It has a very stream-of-consciousness vibe that makes it difficult to parse the message.
ETA: Okay, I have now read your original post six times and I think that I see the problem. You appear to be assuming that your own inability to see the offensiveness of the joke is a sign that the level of offensiveness must be very minor. The joke is really quite offensive because it flippantly suggests that racial and gender identity are things that people can and do decide on a whim when it suits them. This is a slap in the face to the lived reality of countless people. The negativity that you are failing to see is not the mere mention of these diversities, as you suggest, but the parodying of the very concept of identity.
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That’s what you said here:
But then you solidly undermined it by talking about how everyone is pearl-clutching, and assuming that the joke must not really be that bad or at least not intended to be so:
Where if you actually listened to trans people on the subject, you would know the joke is distinctly cruel and very plainly deliberate. So whether or not it’s what you said, it’s not how you acted.
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It is possible for a thoughtful white person to include characters of color in their comic strip without sending millions of people into a tizzy. For example, Charles Schultz introduced “Franklin” to the Peanuts gang back in 1968.
It is even possible for a thoughtful white person to use a Black comic strip character as part of a conversation about the state of race relations in America. Artists like Berkeley Breathed and Garry Trudeau have been doing so for decades.
The key difference is that none of those white comic strip creators were using characters of color to make jokes that were punching down. Scott Adams is apparently incapable of processing this concept.
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adam serwer called it in 2018-- “the cruelty is the point.”
i’m a middle-aged white man and this is number three on my list of ten favorite uses of my white, male privilege. i can have them agreeing with everything i say yet disagreeing with my point and knowing they sound totally stupid for it.
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no.
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How anyone still gives that asshat even the benefit of the doubt is truly beyond me.
Scott Adams finds that “joke” so funny that he himself has previously “decided to identify” as a woman (to lower his coronavirus risk), and also as Black (because he felt he was being treated unfairly for being an unfunny old white man):
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1441388278112931841
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This dude climbed up his own asshole thirty years ago.
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So … why is Scott Adams even being written about on BB without calling out his long-demonstrated misogynist, q-nut, anti-vaxxer, cryptofascist expressed beliefs and ideals?
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Try reading the room not shitty comics.
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Theres only so much time in the day.
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Now that is a list I would love to see!
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Perhaps @thomdunn is operating on the assumption that the community here is already aware of Adams’ toxic nature. Most of the comments in the topic so far would support that assumption to a degree.
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My new book LOSERTHINK
At least the title of his book checks out.
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I’ve said my piece, and so did you. What game are we playing?
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And yet, you proceeded anyway…
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